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  • The Great Disruptor

    Trump, the Media, and the Politics of Degradation

    Edited by Lars Koch, Tobias Nanz, Christina Rogers ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the peak of Donald Trump’s populist strategy during his first term. His goal was to gain support through confrontation and by portraying others as enemies. This book examines Trump’s public image from a culture and media studies perspective. It explores how his political style during his rise to the presidency was shaped by social conflicts, how he ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Collections as Relations

    Contestations of Belonging, Cultural Heritage, and Knowledge Infrastructures

    Edited by Hansjörg Dilger, Barbara Göbel, Lars-Christian Koch, Stephanie Schütze, Alexis von Poser ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Anthropology and Museums
    This book explores anthropological and global art collections as a catalyst, a medium, and an expression of relations. Relations—between and among objects and media, people, and material and immaterial contexts—define, configure, and potentially transform collection-related social and professional networks, discourses and practices, and increasingly museums and other collecting institutions ... Read more

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  • Post-Truth

    by Lee McIntyre ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    We are living in a world where “alternative facts” replace actual facts—and where feelings have more weight than evidence. But how did we get here?In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of “fake news,” from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into ... Read more

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  • What Were We Thinking

    A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era

    by Carlos Lozada ...
    In this “crisp, engaging, and very smart” (The New York Times Book Review) work, The Washington Post**’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic digs into books of the Trump era and finds that our response to this presidency often reflects the same polarization, contradictions, and resentments that made it possible.**It is an irony of our age that a man who rarely reads has unleashed an onslaught of bo ... Read more

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  • Infocracy

    Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy

    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics. Election campaigns are now being waged as information wars with bots and troll armies, and democracy is degenerating into infocracy.In this new book, Byung-Chul Han argues that infocracy is the new form ... Read more

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  • Profession 2011

    by Sidonie Smith, David Palumbo-Liu, Franoise Lionnet, Robert Warrior, Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer, Nancy K. Miller, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Hillary Chute, Gillian L. Whitlock, Brian Rotman, Susan Schreibman, Laura Mandell, Stephen Olsen, Steve Anderson, Tara McPherson, Geoffrey Rockwell, Bethany Nowviskie, Jerome McGann, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Reed Way Dasenbrock, Richard Yarborough, Joyce Kinkead, Laurie Grobman, Gillian Gane, David Porter ...
    This issue of Profession contains Sidonie Smith’s introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 2011 MLA convention) and the essays of forum participants Hillary Chute, Marianne Hirsch, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Françoise Lionnet, Nancy K. Miller, David Palumbo-Liu, Brian Rotman, Leo Spitzer, Robert Warrior, and Gillian L. Whitlock. The issue also features a section on evaluating ... Read more

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  • The Cancel Culture Panic

    How an American Obsession Went Global

    by Adrian Daub ...
    Fear of cancel culture has gripped the world, and it turns out to be an old fear in a new get-up.In this incisive new work, Adrian Daub analyzes the global spread of cancel culture discourse as a moral panic, showing that, though its object is fuzzy, talk of cancel culture in global media has become a preoccupation of an embattled liberalism. There are plenty of conservative voices who gin up ... Read more

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  • The Nature of Conspiracy Theories

    by Michael Butter ...
    Translated by Sharon Howe ...
    Conspiracy theories seem to be proliferating today. Long relegated to a niche existence, conspiracy theories are now pervasive, and older conspiracy theories have been joined by a constant stream of new ones – that the USA carried out the 9/11 attacks itself, that the Ukrainian crisis was orchestrated by NATO, that we are being secretly controlled by a New World Order that keep us docile via ... Read more

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  • Public Things

    Democracy in Disrepair

    by Bonnie Honig ...
    Series series Thinking Out Loud
    In the contemporary world of neoliberalism, efficiency is treated as the vehicle of political and economic health. State bureaucracy, but not corporate bureaucracy, is seen as inefficient, and privatization is seen as a magic cure for social ills. In Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair, Bonnie Honig asks whether democracy is possible in the absence of public services, spaces, and utilities. In ... Read more

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  • Trolling Ourselves to Death

    Democracy in the Age of Social Media

    by Jason Hannan ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. In Trolling Ourselves to Death, Jason Hannan builds on Postman's classic thesis, arguing that we are now not so much amusing, as ... Read more

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  • The Personality of Power

    A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life

    by Brian Massumi ...
    Series series Thought in the Act
    “I am the Chosen One!” With this exclamation Donald Trump crowns the national exceptionalism his base upholds with a claim of personal exceptionalism. He leaves no doubt as to the emotional note: “I am your vengeance!” He personifies reaction for the masses. Except, in today’s microsegmented social media environment the “masses” no longer exist. Fascism’s cultural conditions have shifted. In The ... Read more

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  • Dogwhistles and Figleaves

    How Manipulative Language Spreads Racism and Falsehood

    by Jennifer Mather Saul ...
    Pinpoints how "dogwhistles" and "figleaves," two kinds of linguistic trick, distort political discourse and normalize racism It is widely accepted that political discourse in recent years has become more openly racist and more accepting of wildly implausible conspiracy theories. Dogwhistles and Figleaves explores ways in which such changes--both of which defied previously settled norms of ... Read more

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