Politics of Everyday Fear

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

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Beskrivning

The contemporary consumer is bombarded with fear-inducing images and information. This media shower of imagery is equaled only by the sheer quantity of fear-assuaging products offered for our consumption. The contributors address questions raised by the saturation of social space by capitalized fear.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1993-10-27
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:University of Minnesota Press
ISBN:9780816621637

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Brain Massumi is associate professor in the comparative literature program at McGill University. He is the author and translator of numerous books and has written many essays on contemporary discourses.

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 Buying and being at the border: Everywhere you want to be - introduction to fear, Brian Massumi; The broken line, Emily Hicks; Califas Guillermo Gomez-Pena; Liberty net computer bulletin board and my father, the customs man Aryan Nation and Adolf Hitler. Part 2 Mutations of domination: The sovereign police, Giorgio Agamben; Testimony, Charles Manson; The game Aimee (Rankin) Morgana; Back to the witch, Kathy Acker; Bodies of fear - the films of David Cronenberg, Steven Shaviro. Part 3 Dominations of mutation: Good touches, bad touches Government of Canada; Poison, Todd Haynes; Japanese techno-porn, Sandra Buckley. Part 4 The traffic in morbidity - The skull of Charlotte Corday, Leslie Dick; The primal accident, Paul Virilio; Two infinities of risk, Francois Ewald; The forensic theatre - memory plays on the postmortem condition, Gregory Whitehead. Part 5 Buying and being at the edge: Shopping Disorders, Rhonda Leiberman. Part 6 Screening - home and nation TV 's unheimlich home, Elspeth Probyn; Fear and the family sedan, Meaghan Morris; Telefear - watching war news, Thomas L. Dumm.