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States of Emergency
Essays on Culture and Politics|
23,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 25.09.2013 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780253011961 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 308 |
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Beschreibungen
<p>In his latest book, Patrick Brantlinger probes the state of contemporary America. Brantlinger takes aim at neoliberal economists, the Tea Party movement, gun culture, immigration, waste value, surplus people, the war on terror, technological determinism, and globalization. An invigorating return to classic cultural studies with its concern for social justice and challenges to economic orthodoxy, States of Emergency is a delightful mix of journalism, satire, and theory that addresses many of the most pressing issues of our time.</p>
<p>Preface <br>I. Class Conflicts<br>1. Cultural Studies and Class War<br>2. "It's the Economy, Stupid!"<br>3. Tea Party Brewhaha<br>4. Shooters<br>5. What's the Matter with Mexico?<br>6. Waste and Value: Thorstein Veblen and H. G. Wells<br>II. Postmodern Conditions<br>7. Shopping on Red Alert: The Rhetorical Normalization of Terror<br>8. The State of Iraq<br>9. On the Postmodernity of Being Aboriginal—and Australian<br>10. McLuhan, Crash Theory, and the Invasion of the Nanobots<br>11. Army Surplus: Notes on "Exterminism"<br>12. World Social Forum: Multitude versus Empire?<br>Notes<br>Works Cited <br>Index</p>
<p>Keen-eyed commentary on contemporary culture</p>
<p>Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy Professor of English (Emeritus) at Indiana University Bloomington. His books include The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (IUP, 1998); Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay; Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America; Who Killed Shakespeare? What's Happened to English since the Radical Sixties; and Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians.</p>
<p>Listen to an <a href="http://iupress.typepad.com/blog/2013/09/podcast-patrick-brantlinger-discusses-his-book-states-of-emergency.html">IU Press podcast</a> with the author.</p>
<p>A good read, as can be expected from this author. The themes are pertinent, the treatments are well-researched, the judgment is balanced, the style is sober. While the essays are wide ranging, the contents cohere by virtue of Brantlinger's moral passion.</p>
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