Creatures of Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creatures of Politics write by Michael Lempert. This book was released on 2012-09-12. Creatures of Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This analysis of campaign messaging and image-making is “a fascinating read and an illuminating look into the complex realm of political rhetoric” (Publishers Weekly). It’s a common complaint that a presidential candidate’s style matters more than substance and that the issues have been eclipsed by mass-media-fueled obsession with a candidate’s every slip, gaffe, and peccadillo. This book explores political communication in American presidential politics, focusing on what insiders call “message.” Message, Michael Lempert and Michael Silverstein argue, is not simply an individual’s positions on the issues but the craft used to fashion the creature the public sees as the candidate. Lempert and Silverstein examine some of the revelatory moments in debates, political ads, interviews, speeches, and talk shows to explain how these political creations come to have a life of their own. From the pandering “Flip-Flopper” to the self-reliant “Maverick,” the authors demonstrate how these figures are fashioned out of the verbal, gestural, sartorial, behavioral—as well as linguistic—matter that comprises political communication. “This book captures better than any other the way ‘messaging’ works . . . their lively account of the culture of presidential communication remains sensitive to both the comedy and the seriousness of its subject.” —Michael Warner, Yale University
Biocultural Creatures
Biocultural Creatures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biocultural Creatures write by Samantha Frost. This book was released on 2016-05-19. Biocultural Creatures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging the idea of human exceptionalism as well as other theories of subjectivity that rest on a distinction between biology and culture, Frost proposes that humans are biocultural creatures who quite literally are cultured within the material, social, and symbolic worlds they inhabit. Through discussions about carbon, the functions of cell membranes, the activity of genes and proteins, the work of oxygen, and the passage of time, Frost recasts questions about the nature of matter, identity, and embodiment. In doing so, she elucidates the imbrication of the biological and cultural within the corporeal self. In remapping the relation of humans to their habitats and arriving at the idea that humans are biocultural creatures, Frost provides new theoretical resources for responding to political and environmental crises and for thinking about how to transform the ways we live.
Zoopolis
Zoopolis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Zoopolis write by Sue Donaldson. This book was released on 2011-11-24. Zoopolis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To all of these animals we owe respect for their basic inviolable rights.
Creatures of Politics
Creatures of Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creatures of Politics write by Michael Lempert. This book was released on 2012-09-12. Creatures of Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores political communication in American presidential politics, focusing on what political insiders call "message." The authors argue that message is not just the individual's positions on the issues but the craft used to fashion the creature the public sees as the candidate. They examine some of the revelatory moments in debates, political ads, interviews, speeches, and talk shows to explain how these political creations come to have a life of their own.
What Kind of Creatures Are We?
What Kind of Creatures Are We? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Kind of Creatures Are We? write by Noam Chomsky. This book was released on 2015-12-15. What Kind of Creatures Are We? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The renowned philosopher and political theorist presents a summation of his influential work in this series of Columbia University lectures. A pioneer in the fields of modern linguistics and cognitive science, Noam Chomsky is also one of the most avidly read political theorist of our time. In this series of lectures, Chomsky presents more than half a century of philosophical reflection on all three of these areas. In precise yet accessible language, Chomsky elaborates on the scientific study of language, sketching how his own work has implications for the origins of language, the close relations that language bears to thought, its eventual biological basis. He expounds and criticizes many alternative theories, such as those that emphasize the social, the communicative, and the referential aspects of language. He also investigates the apparent scope and limits of human cognitive capacities. Moving from language and mind to society and politics, Chomsky concludes with a philosophical defense of a position he describes as "libertarian socialism," tracing its links to anarchism and the ideas of John Dewey, and even briefly to the ideas of Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill. Demonstrating its conceptual growth out of our historical past, he also shows its urgent relation to our present moment.
