Implicating Empire

Author : Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 078674992X
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Implicating Empire written by Stanley Aronowitz and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past several years, while visible protests against the World Bank and the I.M.F. made front-page news, there has been a growing field of scholarship that looks at the role of globalization for national and international state identities. The first truism of globalization -- that we live in an increasingly interconnected world, one in which it is impossible to separate the fate of one nation from that of the others -- was dramatically illustrated on September 11, 2001, when the seemingly distant effects of a civil war in Afghanistan so murderously interrupted life in the United States. Implicating Empire is the first book to look at four crucial dimensions of globalization: first, its role vis-a-vis the current war; second, the impact of globalization on domestic U.S. policy; third, how globalization will necessarily alter national security, both in its definition as well as how it is pursued, and, finally, the future of globalization. Including original essays by Stanley Aronowitz, Ahmed Rashid, Tariq Ali, Manning Marable, Michael Hardt, and Ellen Willis, among others, Implicating Empire will set the agenda for how globalization is debated -- and resisted -- in the future.

Author : Michael Strangelove
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442659440
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Empire of Mind written by Michael Strangelove and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where many critics see the Internet as an instrument of corporate hegemony, Michael Strangelove sees something else: an alternative space inhabited by communities dedicated to anarchic freedom, culture jamming, alternative journalism, and resistance to authoritarian forms of consumer capitalism and globalization. In The Empire of Mind, "Dr. Strangelove," the scholar Canadian Business referred to as the "acknowledged dean of Internet entrepreneurs" and Wired called "the Canadian guru of Internet advertising," presents the compelling argument that the Internet and new digital communication technology actually undermine the power of capital, producing an alternative symbolic economy. Strangelove contends that the Internet breaks with the capitalist logic of commodification and that, while television produces a passive consumer audience, Internet audiences are more active, creative, and subversive. Writers, activists, and artists on the Internet undermine commercial media and its management of consumer behaviour, a behaviour that is challenged by the Web's tendency toward the disintegration of intellectual property rights. Case studies describe the invention of new meaning given to cultural and consumer icons like Barbie and McDonald's and explore how novel modes of online news production alter the representation of the world as it is produced by the mainstream, corporate press. In the course of exploring new media, The Empire of Mind also makes apparent that digital piracy will not be eliminated. The Internet community effectively converts private property into public, thereby presenting serious obstacles for the management of consumer behaviour and significantly eroding brand value. Much to the dismay of the corporate sector, online communities are disinterested in the ethics of private property. In fact, the entire philosophical framework on which capitalism is based is threatened by these alternative means of cultural production.

Author : Stephen Hardy
Publisher : Masarykova univerzita
ISBN 13 : 8021097353
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Implicating Environments written by Stephen Hardy and published by Masarykova univerzita. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kniha má za cíl zkoumat aspekty současných a historických přírodních, společenských a kognitivních prostředí skrz řadu částečně komparativních čtení souvisejících hledisek filozofie, environmentálních studií, literární kritiky, poezie, kulturní historie a literárních, kulturních a prostorových teorií. Mezi diskutované autory patři Peter Ackroyd, Andrew Bowie, Paul Carter, Gilles Deleuze a Félix Guattari, Edward Dorn, Michael Hardt a Antonio Negri, David Jones, Niklas Luhmann, Andrew McMurry, Charles Olson, Camille Paglia, J. H. Prynne, Baruch Spinoza a Raymond Williams.

Author : Christina R. Foust
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739143379
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transgression as a Mode of Resistance written by Christina R. Foust and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transgression as a Mode of Resistance provides the conceptual mapping for scholars, students, and practitioners to participate in the growing debate between hegemony and transgression. Through a broad perspective on philosophy, communication and cultural studies (primarily rhetorical criticism and social movement rhetoric) and history, this book demonstrates that these two modes of resistance are sometimes conflicting, oftentimes inter-related practices. Through alternative social relationships and political performances, transgressive resistors may reinvent daily life.

Author : Naoki Sakai
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 962209774X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traces 4 written by Naoki Sakai and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation, Biopolitics, Colonial Difference, the fourth book in the Traces series, focuses on the problems of translation and the political dynamics surrounding multiplicity -- linguistic, regional, transnational, and civilizational -- today.

Author : George Ritzer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111953853X
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Globalization written by George Ritzer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion features original essays on the complexity of globalization and its diverse and sometimes conflicting effects. Written by top scholars in the field, it offers a nuanced and detailed examination of globalization that includes both positive and critical evaluations. Introduces the major players, theories, and methodologies Explores the major areas of impact, including the environment, cities, outsourcing, consumerism, global media, politics, religion, and public health Addresses the foremost concerns of global inequality, corruption, international terrorism, war, and the future of globalization Wide-ranging and comprehensive, an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate students in a range of disciplines

Author : Fred Reinhard Dallmayr
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742549685
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Wonder written by Fred Reinhard Dallmayr and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Wonder presents the dangers of the 'underside of modernity': the unleashing of unlimited lust for (global) power and wealth. Relying on leading critical intellectuals, Dallmayr offers a critique of the self-deceptions of our age, pleading in favor of the cultivation of the 'small wonder' of everyday life.

Author : E. Osei Kwadwo Prempeh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351960318
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Global Capitalism written by E. Osei Kwadwo Prempeh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental challenge of democratizing globalization by opening up spaces for democratic participation beyond the state is addressed in this study. The author captures both the democratic activities and voices of opposition to neoliberal globalization and investigates how this reinvention of democracy through resistance to neoliberal globalization has taken shape in the African context. In doing so, he reasserts the relevance of the de-globalization and anti-capitalism movements. With a careful selection of case studies, this volume is ideal for classroom use and library reference.

Author : Loretta Capeheart
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978806876
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Justice written by Loretta Capeheart and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye for an eye, the balance of the scales – for centuries, these and other traditional concepts exemplified the public’s perception of justice. Today, popular culture, including television shows like Law and Order, informs the public’s vision. But do age-old symbols, portrayals in the media, and existing systems truly represent justice in all of its nuanced forms, or do we need to think beyond these notions? The second edition of Social Justice: Theories, Issues, and Movements responds to the need for a comprehensive introduction to these issues. Theories of social justice are presented in an accessible fashion to encourage engagement of students, activists, and scholars with these important lines of inquiry. Issues are analyzed utilizing various theories for furthering engagement in possibilities. Struggles for justice -- from legal cases to on the ground movements -- are presented for historical context and to inform the way forward.

Author : Carles Boix
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
ISBN 13 : 0199278482
Total Pages : 1035 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics written by Carles Boix and published by Oxford Handbooks Online. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1035 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual Political Analysis, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Institutions, and Political Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished international group of specialists in their respective fields. The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics offers a critical survey of the field of empirical political science through the collection of a set of chapters written by forty-seven top scholars in the discipline of comparative politics. Part I includes chapters surveying the key research methodologies employed in comparative politics (the comparative method; the use of history; the practice and status of case-study research; the contributions of field research) and assessing the possibility of constructing a science of comparative politics. Parts II to IV examine the foundations of political order: the origins of states and the extent to which they relate to war and to economic development; the sources of compliance or political obligation among citizens; democratic transitions, the role of civic culture; authoritarianism; revolutions; civil wars and contentious politics. Parts V and VI explore the mobilization, representation and coordination of political demands. Part V considers why parties emerge, the forms they take and the ways in which voters choose parties. It then includes chapters on collective action, social movements and political participation. Part VI opens up with essays on the mechanisms through which political demands are aggregated and coordinated. This sets the agenda to the systematic exploration of the workings and effects of particular institutions: electoral systems, federalism, legislative-executive relationships, the judiciary and bureaucracy. Finally, Part VII is organized around the burgeoning literature on macropolitical economy of the last two decades.