Disposable futures: the seduction of violence in the age of spectacle

"Drawing inspiration from Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle and a wide range of other free thinkers and intellectuals, Brad Evans and Henry A. Giroux analyze how today's dominant economic system-neoliberalism-uses consumerism, privatization, and mass media to neutralize and contro...

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Beteilige Person: Evans, Brad 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: [San Francisco, Calif.] City Lights Books 2015
Schriftenreihe:Open media series
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Links:http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780872866584.pdf
Zusammenfassung:"Drawing inspiration from Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle and a wide range of other free thinkers and intellectuals, Brad Evans and Henry A. Giroux analyze how today's dominant economic system-neoliberalism-uses consumerism, privatization, and mass media to neutralize and control the public's participation in its own affairs. The consequence, they argue, is a "mode of existence that encourages us all to become voyeurs of suffering, while denying us the ability of connecting subjugation and willful oppression to wider systemic forces." Brimming with ideas and insights, Disposable Futures offers a sweeping, big-picture critique of consumption-driven society and how state and corporate power use and abuse violence to redefine citizenship, national security, and economics in order to enrich the few.
Umfang:XV, 280 S. Ill.