The Naked Communist:Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture - 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 The Naked Communist:Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture write by Roland Vegso. This book was released on 2013. The Naked Communist:Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Naked Communist argues that the political ideologies of modernity were fundamentally determined by four basic figures: the world, the enemy, the secret, and the catastrophe. While the "world" names the totality that functioned as the ultimate horizon of modern political imagination, the three other figures define the necessary limits of this totality by reflecting on the limits of representation. The book highlights the enduring presence of these figures in the modern imagination through detailed analysis of a concrete historical example: American anti-Communist politics of the 1950s. Its primary objective is to describe the internal mechanisms of what we could call an anti-Communist "aesthetic ideology." The book thus traces the way anti-Communist popular culture emerged in the discourse of Cold War liberalism as a political symptom of modernism. Based on a discursive analysis of American anti-Communist politics, the book presents parallel readings of modernism and popular fiction from the 1950s (nuclear holocaust novels, spy novels, and popular political novels) in order to show that, despite the radical separation of the two cultural fields, they both participated in a common ideological program.
The Naked Communist
The Naked Communist - 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 The Naked Communist write by Roland Végső. This book was released on 2013. The Naked Communist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'The Naked Communist' argues that the political ideologies of modernity were fundamentally determined by four basic figures the world, the enemy, the secret, and the catastrophe.
Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism
Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism - 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 Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism write by George A. Gonzalez. This book was released on 2019-02-01. Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reality is made up of the Absolute and Causality. The absolute (most saliently philosophized about by Georg Hegel) is where normative values inhere. Causality can be described as the measurable effects of the normative values of the absolute and the laws of physics (also ostensibly a product of the absolute). Humans are special insofar as they access the higher aspects of the Absolute – altruism, compassion, love, humor, science, engineering, etc. The Absolute also contains what can be considered the less attractive values or impulses: greed, lust for power, hate, self-centeredness, conceit, etc. Predicating society on what I deem the lower (spirits) aspects of the absolute (most prominently, greed) results in personal, social dysfunction and ultimately the end of civilization. Conversely, a society based on justice is stable and vibrant. Justice is a classless society, free of gender and ethnic biases. My argument is based on popular culture – especially the Star Trek franchise. One implication of my thesis is that capitalist values generate psychological neurosis and societal instability – even catastrophe. Additionally, the political values that dominate the current neoliberalist world system (and especially the American government) are the other, the will to power – resulting in war, and global political instability. Popular culture is germane to philosophy and contemporary politics because television/movie creators frequently try to attract viewers by conveying authentic philosophical and political motifs. Conversely, viewers seek out authentic movies and television shows. This is in contrast to opinion surveys (for instance), as the formation of the data begins with the surveyor seeking to directly solicit an opinion – however impromptu or shallow
Umbr(a): The Object
Umbr(a): The Object - 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 Umbr(a): The Object write by Tom Eyers. This book was released on 2014. Umbr(a): The Object available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Cold War
The Cold War - 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 The Cold War write by Konrad H. Jarausch. This book was released on 2017-02-06. The Cold War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The traces of the Cold War are still visible in many places all around the world. It is the topic of exhibits and new museums, of memorial days and historic sites, of documentaries and movies, of arts and culture. There are historical and political controversies, both nationally and internationally, about how the history of the Cold War should be told and taught, how it should be represented and remembered. While much has been written about the political history of the Cold War, the analysis of its memory and representation is just beginning. Bringing together a wide range of scholars, this volume describes and analyzes the cultural history and representation of the Cold War from an international perspective. That innovative approach focuses on master narratives of the Cold War, places of memory, public and private memorialization, popular culture, and schoolbooks. Due to its unique status as a center of Cold War confrontation and competition, Cold War memory in Berlin receives a special emphasis. With the friendly support of the Wilson Center.
