States of emergency : essays on culture and politics /

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In his latest book, the author probes the state of contemporary America. He takes aim at neoliberal economists, the Tea Party movement, gun culture, immigration, waste value, surplus people, the war on terror, technological determinism, and globalization. A return to classic cultural studies with it...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brantlinger, Patrick, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Temas:
2000-2099
Social history > 21st century.
Histoire sociale > 21e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Commentary & Opinion.
Social conditions
Manners and customs
Social history
United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
United States > Social life and customs > 21st century.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes > 21e siècle.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Class conflicts. Class warfare and cultural studies ; "It's the economy, stupid!" ; Tea party brewhaha ; Shooters : culture contexts of the Virginia Tech tragedy ; What is the matter with Mexico? ; Waste and value : Thorstein Veblen and H. G. Wells (coauthored with Richard Higgins)
  • Postmodern conditions. Shopping on red alert : the rhetorical normalization of terror ; The state of Iraq ; On the postmodernity of being Aboriginal - and Australian ; McLuhan, Crash Theory, and the invasion of the nanobots ; Army surplus : notes on "exterminism" ; World social forum : multitude versus empire?

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