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9 produkter
Virtue Hoarders
The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class
Häftad, 2021
133 kr
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A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroismProfessional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity and virtue signaling, publicizing an ability to do ordinary things in fundamentally …
Traumatized
The New Politics of Public Suffering
E-bok, 2026
154 kr
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What happens when an idea born of genuine suffering is weaponized as a tool of social control? Traumatized is the story of how shell shock became PTSD, how Oprah turned pain into profit, and how "e;authenticity"e; became the ultimate brand. It is a history of surveillance cap,italism's …
Traumatized
The New Politics of Public Suffering
Inbunden, 2026
205 kr
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What happens when an idea born of genuine suffering is weaponized as a tool of social control? Traumatized is the story of how shell shock became PTSD, how Oprah turned pain into profit, and how "authenticity" became the ultimate brand. It is a history of surveillance capitalism's greatest coup: …
American Idyll
Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique
Häftad, 2011
255 kr
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A trenchant critique of failure and opportunism across the political spectrum, this argues that social mobility, once a revered hallmark of American society, has ebbed, as higher education has become a mechanistic process for efficient sorting that has more to do with class formation than anything …
Dreams of Interpretation
A Century Down the Royal Road
Av Catherine Liu, John Mowitt m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
304 kr
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Rethinking the importance of Sigmund Freud’s landmark book The Interpretation of Dreams a century after its publication in 1900, this work brings together psychoanalysts, philosophers, cultural theorists, film and visual theorists, and literary critics from several continents in a compilation of …
Copying Machines
Taking Notes for the Automaton
Häftad, 2000
313 kr
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Explores literary theory’s fear of and fascination with the mechanical.Anxieties about fixing the absolute difference between the human being and the mechanical replica, the automaton, are as old as the first appearance of the machine itself. Exploring these anxieties and the efforts they prompted, …
Oriental Girls Desire Romance
Häftad, 2012
192 kr
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It's 1980s New York, and though the coke flows freely, money and glamour are the more powerful intoxicants. While fortunes are being made in SoHo galleries and on Wall Street, an underclass of transient drag queens and dandies, club kids and strippers, artists and actors, models and waitstaff …
Die Tugendpächter
Wie sich eine neue Klasse mit Moral tarnt und Solidarität verrät
E-bok, 2023
171 kr
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Catherine Liu rechnet mit der linksliberalen Elite in den USA ab, der sogenannten »Professional Managerial Class« (PMC).Wo diese einst den Kampf der Arbeiterklasse gegen kapitalistische Ausbeutung unterstützte, ist sie heute einer der stärksten Treiber des sich progressiv gebenden, globalisierten …
