The violence of organized forgetting : thinking beyond America's disimagination machine /

"In a series of essays on the intersections of political power, popular culture and new methods of social control, Giroux explores how neoliberal discourse and the ongoing commodification of everyday life constitute an active assault on public memory, chip away at civil rights, and diminish the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Giroux, Henry A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2014]
Colección:Open Media book.
Temas:
Political culture > United States.
Corporate power > United States.
Mass media > Political aspects > United States.
Power (Social sciences) > United States.
Social values > Political aspects > United States.
Collective memory > Political aspects > United States.
Pouvoir économique > États-Unis.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) > États-Unis.
Valeurs sociales > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Mémoire collective > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Terrorism.
Corporate power
Mass media > Political aspects
Political culture
Power (Social sciences)
Social values > Political aspects
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : America's descent into madness
  • America's disimagination machine
  • The new authoritarianism
  • Hurricane Sandy and the politics of disposability
  • The vanishing point of U.S. democracy
  • Lockdown USA : Lessons from the Boston Marathon manhunt
  • Teachers resisting neoliberalism at home
  • Beyond the disimagination machine
  • Hope in a time of permanent war.

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