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Author : Jan-Willem van Prooijen,Paul A. M. van Lange
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107035805
Why are people frequently suspicious of their political and corporate leaders? This book examines the psychological roots of political paranoia.
Author : Dana Polan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0231888449
A post-structural analysis of Hollywood films from the 1940s, with a particular focus on those meant to inspire the Allied forces during World War II.
Author : Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262533065
A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom and democracy. How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she says, stem from our reduction of political problems into technological ones. Drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and analyzing such phenomena as Webcams and face-recognition technology, Chun argues that the relationship between control and freedom in networked contact is experienced and negotiated through sexuality and race. She traces the desire for cyberspace to cyberpunk fiction and maps the transformation of public/private into open/closed. Analyzing "pornocracy," she contends that it was through cyberporn and the government's attempts to regulate it that the Internet became a marketplace of ideas and commodities. Chun describes the way Internet promoters conflated technological empowerment with racial empowerment and, through close examinations of William Gibson's Neuromancer and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, she analyzes the management of interactivity in narratives of cyberspace. The Internet's potential for democracy stems not from illusory promises of individual empowerment, Chun argues, but rather from the ways in which it exposes us to others (and to other machines) in ways we cannot control. Using fiber optic networks—light coursing through glass tubes—as metaphor and reality, Control and Freedom engages the rich philosophical tradition of light as a figure for knowledge, clarification, surveillance, and discipline, in order to argue that fiber-optic networks physically instantiate, and thus shatter, enlightenment.
Author : Jan-Willem van Prooijen,Paul A. M. van Lange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Business ethics
ISBN : 1139957775
Why are people frequently suspicious of their political and corporate leaders? This book examines the psychological roots of political paranoia.
Author : Richard Hofstadter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307388445
This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence — and derail — the larger agendas of a political party. He investigates the politics of the irrational, shedding light on how the behavior of individuals can seem out of proportion with actual political issues, and how such behavior impacts larger groups. With such other classic essays as “Free Silver and the Mind of 'Coin' Harvey” and “What Happened to the Antitrust Movement?, ” The Paranoid Style in American Politics remains both a seminal text of political history and a vital analysis of the ways in which political groups function in the United States.
Author : Amjed Rasheed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000844740
This book examines the perplexing twists and turns in Syria-Iraq relations which since the establishment of modern Syria and Iraq after World War I have zigzagged between cooperation and hostility countless times. It questions why both countries switched regional and international alliances, but never formed one of their own, and assesses the role played by structural forces such as geopolitics, ideology, and regime survival. It also argues that a key factor was the individual personalities – the agency role – of Hafez Assad and Saddam Hussain, both of whom had a monopoly of power, similar ambitions and leadership styles, and great mistrust of each other, with the result that they clashed. It goes on to show how both were caught between commitment to pan-Arabism and the imperative for regime survival, and how this led them both to weaken pan-Arabism instead and construct sectarian polarisation to ensure regime survival. The book concludes that their ruthless fight left a heavy legacy where in both countries regime survival overshadowed state consolidation and nation-building, with both countries divided into smaller communities of faiths and ethnicities at war with each other.
Author : Dana B. Polan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0231062842
Author : J. R. Johansson
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780738740966
Parker Chipp is learning to master his abilities as a Watcher. But as he trains, his alter ego does everything it can to destroy his life. Even as it spins him out of control, Parker must face a worse threat. The Takers are forcing his chemist father to create an immortality pill, and Parker must enter their realm to rescue him.
Author : Frida Beckman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1503631605
Why does it seem like our everyday life is shadowed by something menacing? This book identifies and illuminates paranoia as a significant feature of contemporary U.S. society and culture. Centering on what it identifies as three key dimensions - power, truth, and identity - in three different contexts - society, literature, and critique - the book explores and explains the increasing influence of paranoid thinking in U.S. society during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first, a period which has seen the rise of control systems and neoliberal ascendency. Inquiring about the predominance of white, male, American subjects in paranoid culture, Frida Beckman recognizes an antagonistic maintenance and fortification of a conception of the autonomous individual that perceives itself as under threat. Identifying such paranoia as emerging from an increasingly disjunctive relation between this conception of the subject and the changing nature of the public sphere, she develops the concept of the paranoid chronotope as a tool for theoretical analysis of social, literary, and critical practices today. Investigating 21st century paranoid fictions, phenomena, and debates such as New Sincerity novels, conspiracist online culture, and postcritique, Beckman shows how the paranoid chronotope constitutes a recurring feature of modern consciousness.
Author : Luigi Zoja
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317202394
Luigi Zoja presents an insightful analysis of the use and misuse of paranoia throughout history and in contemporary society. Zoja combines history with depth psychology, contemporary politics and tragic literature, resulting in a clear and balanced analysis presented with rare clarity. The devastating impact of paranoia on societies is explored in detail. Focusing on the contagious aspects of paranoia and its infectious, self-replicating dynamics, Zoja takes such diverse examples as Ajax and George W. Bush, Cain and the American Holocaust, Hitler, Stalin and Othello to illustrate his argument. He reconstructs the emblematic arguments that paranoia has promoted in Western history and examines how the power of the modern media and mass communication has affected how it spreads. Paranoia clearly examines how leaders lose control of their influence, how the collective unconscious acquires an autonomous life and how seductive its effects can be – more so than any political, religious or ideological discourse. This gripping study will be essential reading for depth and analytical psychologists, and academics and students of history, cultural studies, psychology, classical studies, literary studies, anthropology and sociology.
Author : John C. Farrell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501732423
"Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man, Ibsen's Masterbuilder Solness, Strindberg's Captain (in The Father), Kafka's K., and Joyce's autobiographical hero Stephen Dedalus.... The all-encompassing conspiracy, very much in its original Rousseauvian cast, has become almost the normal way of representing society and its institutions since World War Two, giving impetus to heroic plots and counter-plots in a hundred films and in the novels of Burroughs, Heller, Ellison, Pynchon, Kesey, Mailer, DeLillo, and others."—from Paranoia and Modernity Paranoia, suspicion, and control have preoccupied key Western intellectuals since the sixteenth century. Paranoia is a dominant concern in modern literature, and its peculiar constellation of symptoms—grandiosity, suspicion, unfounded hostility, delusions of persecution and conspiracy—are nearly obligatory psychological components of the modern hero. How did paranoia come to the center of modern moral and intellectual consciousness? In Paranoia and Modernity, John Farrell brings literary criticism, psychology, and intellectual history to the attempt at an answer. He demonstrates the connection between paranoia and the long history of struggles over the question of agency—the extent to which we are free to act and responsible for our actions. He addresses a wide range of major authors from the late Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, among them Luther, Bacon, Cervantes, Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Swift, and Rousseau. Farrell shows how differently paranoid psychology looks at different historical junctures with different models of agency, and in the epilogue, "Paranoia and Postmodernism," he draws the implications for recent critical debates in the humanities.
Author : Mikael Gravers
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0700709800
This study examines the complex relationship between nationalism, violence and Buddhism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Burma, bringing us to present-day Burma and the struggle by Aung San Suu Kyi for a new Burmese identity.
Author : Robert S.. Robins,Robins, Robert Sidwar Robins,Robert S. Robins,Jerrold M. Post
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300070276
Robert S. Robins and Jerrold M. Post, M.D., experts in political psychology, document and interpret the malign power of paranoia in a variety of contexts - in political movements like McCarthyism; in organizations like the John Birch Society; in leaders like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Jim Jones, and David Koresh; and among extreme groups that commit violence in the name of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Indeed, Robins and Post show that the paranoid dynamic has been aggressively present in every social disaster of this century. Robins and Post describe the paranoid personality, explain why paranoia is part of human evolutionary history, and examine the conditions that must exist before the message of the paranoid takes root in a vulnerable population, leading to mass movements and genocidal violence.
Author : Dana Polan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1986-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0231923848
Author : Martin Kantor
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : PSU:000067772285
The only guide currently available on paranoia, this work offers a method for understanding, coping with, and treating this widespread and neglected condition, which can result in serious social consequences from isolation to violence in schools and the workplace.
