Culture Of Lies

Author : Dubravka Ugresic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1948830787

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Culture of Lies by Dubravka Ugresic Pdf

The Culture of Lies is one of the most intelligent and lucid accounts of an appalling episode in history. It shows us the banality and brutality of nationalism and the way that nationalistic ideology permeates every pore of life. Ugresic's acerbic and penetrating essays cover everything from politics to daily routine, from public to private life. With a diverse and unusual perspective, she writes about memory, soap operas, the destruction of everyday life, kitsch, the conformity of intellectuals, propaganda and censorship, the strategies of human manipulation and the walls of Europe which, she argues, never really did fall. Shot through with irony and sadness, satirical protest and bitter melancholy, The Culture of Lies is a gesture of intellectual resistance by a writer branded "a traitor" and "a witch" in Croatia.

Author : Marianne Sophia Wokeck,Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046505502

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The Culture of Lies by Marianne Sophia Wokeck,Dubravka Ugrešić Pdf

The story of German and Irish migration to America in the eighteenth century.--(Source of description unspecified.)

Author : Paul H Weaver
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0684863642

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News and Culture of Lying by Paul H Weaver Pdf

Paul H. Weaver's News and the Culture of Lying uses hard evidence to expose the "culture of lying," a propensity of news organizations to obscure the true meanings of news events and distort the public's conception of reality. News and Culture of Lying examines the relationship between journalists and the sources of their stories, argues that the media create an artificial sense of permanent emergency, and describes what must be done to restore credibility.

Author : John Steckley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1551118750

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White Lies about the Inuit by John Steckley Pdf

In this lively book, designed specifically for introductory students, Steckley unpacks three white lies: the myth that there are fifty-two words for snow, that there are blond, blue-eyed Inuit descended from the Vikings, and that the Inuit send off their elders to die on ice floes.

Author : Susan Jacoby
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400096381

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The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby Pdf

A scathing indictment of American modern-day culture examines the current disdain for logic and evidence fostered by the mass media, religious fundamentalism, poor public education, a lack of fair-minded intellectuals, and a lazy, credulous public, condemning our addiction to infotainment, from TV to the Web, and assessing its repercussions for the country as a whole. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

Author : Kris Fallon
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520300934

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Where Truth Lies by Kris Fallon Pdf

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This boldly original book traces the evolution of documentary film and photography as they migrated onto digital platforms during the first decades of the twenty-first century. Kris Fallon examines the emergence of several key media forms—social networking and crowdsourcing, video games and virtual environments, big data and data visualization—and demonstrates the formative influence of political conflict and the documentary film tradition on their evolution and cultural integration. Focusing on particular moments of political rupture, Fallon argues that the ideological rifts of the period inspired the adoption and adaptation of newly available technologies to encourage social mobilization and political action, a function performed for much of the previous century by independent documentary film. Positioning documentary film and digital media side by side in the political sphere, Fallon asserts that “truth” now lies in a new set of media forms and discursive practices that implicitly shape the documentation of everything from widespread cultural spectacles like wars and presidential elections to more invisible or isolated phenomena like the Abu Ghraib torture scandal or the “fake news” debates of 2016.

Author : Metzger, Richard
Publisher : Disinformation Books
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781938875106

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Book of Lies by Metzger, Richard Pdf

New package for a cult classic. First published in 2003, The Book of Lies was hailed as a 21st grimoire and instantly became a cult classic. Now reformatted for the next generation of magicians and all counterculture devotees, it gathers an unprecedented cabal of occultists, esoteric scholars, and forward thinkers, all curated by Disinformation's former "wicked warlock" Richard Metzger. This compendium of the occult includes entries on topics as diverse and dangerous as Aleister Crowley, Secret Societies, Psychedelics, and Magick in theory and practice. The result is an alchemical formula that may well rip a hole in the fabric of your reality: Terence McKenna asks if we contact "aliens" with the smokable drug DMT Daniel Pinchbeck recounts his psychedelic and magical experiences Techgnosis author Eric Davis writes about H.P. Lovecraft Robert Anton Wilson writes about the similarities between Aleister Crowley and Timothy Leary Donald Tyson's "The Enochian Apocalypse Working" ask if the seeds of the end of the world sown in the Elizabethan era. Other contributors or subjects written about include Brian Barritt, Vere Chappell, Ida Craddock, Joe Coleman, Nevill Drury, Stephen Edred Flowers, T. Allen Greenfield, Gary Lachman, Anton Lavey, Peter Levenda, Grant Morrison, Michael Moynihan, Rosaleen Norton, Jack Parsons, Austin Osman Spare, and Tracy Twyman. It's all here and more!

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198789468

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Lying in Early Modern English Culture by Andrew Hadfield Pdf

Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. The period is characterised by panic and chaos when few had any idea how religious, cultural, and social life would develop after the traumatic division of Christendom. While many saw the need for a secular power to define the truth others declared that their allegiances belonged elsewhere. Accordingly there was a constant battle between competing authorities for the right to declare what was the truth and so label opponents as liars. Issues of truth and lying were, therefore, a constant feature of everyday life and determined ideas of individual identity, politics, speech, sex, marriage, and social behaviour, as well as philosophy and religion. This book is a cultural history of truth and lying from the 1530s to the 1610s, showing how lying needs to be understood in action as well as in theory. Unlike most histories of lying, it concentrates on a series of particular events reading them in terms of academic theories and more popular notions of lying. The book covers a wide range of material such as the trials of Ann Boleyn and Thomas More, the divorce of Frances Howard, and the murder of Anthony James by Annis and George Dell; works of literature such as Othello, The Faerie Queene, A Mirror for Magistrates, and The Unfortunate Traveller; works of popular culture such as the herring pamphlet of 1597; and major writings by Castiglione, Montaigne, Erasmus, Luther, and Tyndale.

Author : Kyoko Mori
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781429934770

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Polite Lies by Kyoko Mori Pdf

Twelve essays by a Japanese-American writer about being caught between past and present, old country and new.

Author : Marilyn McEntyre
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467461696

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Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, 2nd ed by Marilyn McEntyre Pdf

With the pervasiveness of vitriol and dishonesty today, language needs to be revived and restored. In Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, Marilyn McEntyre exposes the commercial and political forces that affect public discourse in American culture and counters with twelve constructive “strategies of stewardship”—such as challenging lies (including widely tolerated forms of deception and spin), fostering the art of conversation, and encouraging playfulness and prayerfulness in writing and speaking. The second edition of this timely and timeless book includes updated cultural references and questions for reflection and discussion at the end, allowing a new generation of readers to apply McEntyre’s wisdom in a world that struggles with truth and graceful language more than ever before.

Author : Susan Jacoby
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780525436522

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The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies by Susan Jacoby Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The prescient and now-classic analysis of the forces of anti-intellectualism in contemporary American life--updated for the era of Trump, Twitter, Breitbart and fake news controversies. The searing cultural history of the last half-century, The Age of American Unreason In A Culture of Lies focuses on the convergence of social forces--usually treated as separate entities--that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. These include the upsurge of religious fundamentalism, with more political power today than ever before; the failure of public education to create an informed citizenry; the triumph of internet over print culture; and America's toxic addition to infotainment. Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation and sparing neither the right nor the left, Susan Jacoby asserts that Americans today have embraced "junk thought" that makes almost no effort to separate fact from opinion. At today's critical political juncture, nothing could be more important than recognizing the crisis described in this impassioned, tough-minded book, which challenges Americans to face the painful truth about what the flights from reason has cost us as individuals and as a nation.

Author : Dubravka Ugresic
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1861590628

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The Culture of Lies by Dubravka Ugresic Pdf

Author : Paul Weaver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015032556428

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News and the Culture of Lying by Paul Weaver Pdf

Weaver maintains that news organizations regularly foster a haze of untruth that obscures the meanings of events and distorts our perception of reality. A revealing look at how news stories are assigned, reported, edited, published, and more.

Author : Antonin Artaud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3035803641

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Here Lies Preceded by the Indian Culture by Antonin Artaud Pdf

Author : Dubravka Ugresic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0753808854

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Culture of Lies 10 Copy Pack by Dubravka Ugresic Pdf