Presidential Unrealities

Author : Sebastian M. Herrmann
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Winter
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783825363338

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Presidential Unrealities by Sebastian M. Herrmann Pdf

This book analyzes and historicizes an important and popular motif in contemporary US political discourse: the notion that politics has become increasingly ‘unreal.’ At the turn of the millennium, the simulated quality of politics in general and of the US presidency in particular has become a major object of concern across a broad range of venues and media: publications in media studies and political science, newspaper editorials, novels, films, and TV shows alike worry over how much or how little we can actually know about the reality of the US president when all our knowledge is based on carefully staged media representations. Rather than adding another voice to this concern, ‘Presidential Unrealities’ investigates the cultural work such discussions do. Charting their histories and their cultural resonances, the book argues that debating ‘presidential unreality’ provides a crucial vocabulary by way of which the US public negotiates the postmodernization of American culture and society.

Author : Sebastian M. Herrmann,Carolin Alice Hofmann,Katja Kanzler,Stefan Schubert,Frank Usbeck
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Winter
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783825364472

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Poetics of Politics by Sebastian M. Herrmann,Carolin Alice Hofmann,Katja Kanzler,Stefan Schubert,Frank Usbeck Pdf

This volume proposes the ‘poetics of politics’ as an analytic angle to interrogate contemporary cultural production in the United States. As recent scholarship has observed, American literature and culture around the turn of the millennium, while still deeply informed by the textual self-consciousness of postmodernism, are marked by a rekindled interest in matters of social concern. This revived interest in politics is frequently read as a ‘grand epochal transition.’ Sidestepping such a logic of periodization, this book points to the interplay between the textual and the political as a dynamic – always locally specific – that affords unique insights into the characteristics of the contemporary moment. The sixteen case studies in this book explore this interplay across a wide range of media, genres, and modes. Together, they make visible a broad cultural concern with negotiating social relevance and textual self-awareness that permeates and structures contemporary US (popular) culture.

Author : Nina Morgan,Alfred Hornung,Takayuki Tatsumi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351672627

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The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies by Nina Morgan,Alfred Hornung,Takayuki Tatsumi Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies provides scholars and students of American Studies with theoretical and applied essays that help to define Transnational American Studies as a discipline and practice. In more than 30 essays, the volume offers a history of the concept of the "transnational" and takes readers from the Barbary frontier to Guam, from Mexico's border crossings to the intifada's contested zones. Together, the essays develop new ways for Americanists to read events, images, sound, literature, identity, film, politics, or performance transnationally through the work of diverse figures, such as Confucius, Edward Said, Pauline Hopkins, Poe, Faulkner, Michael Jackson, Onoto Watanna, and others. This timely volume also addresses presidential politics and interpictorial US history from Lincoln in Africa, to Obama and Mandela, to Trump. The essays, written by prominent global Americanists, as well as the emerging scholars shaping the field, seek to provide foundational resources as well as experimental and forward-leaning approaches to Transnational American Studies.

Author : Marta Neüff
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264268

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Words of Crisis as Words of Power by Marta Neüff Pdf

The volume explores crisis rhetoric in contemporary U.S. American presidential speechmaking. Rhetorical leadership constitutes an inherent feature of the modern presidency. Particularly during times of critical events, the president is expected to react and address the nation. However, the power of the office also allows him or her to direct attention to particular topics and thus rhetorically create or exploit the notion of crisis. This monograph examines the verbal responses of George W. Bush and Barack Obama to pressing issues during their terms in office. Assuming an interdisciplinary approach, it illuminates the characteristics of modern crisis rhetoric. The aim of the book is to show that elements of Puritan rhetoric, and specifically the tradition of the jeremiad, although taken out of their original context and modified to suit a modern multiethnic society, can still be detected in contemporary political communication. It will be of interest to students and scholars of presidential rhetoric, political communication, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies.

Author : Sebastian M. Herrmann,Katja Kanzler,Stefan Schubert
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839461303

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Beyond Narrative by Sebastian M. Herrmann,Katja Kanzler,Stefan Schubert Pdf

This book calls for an investigation of the ›borderlands of narrativity‹ — the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of narrative meets other symbolic logics, such as data(base), play, spectacle, or ritual. It opens up a conversation about the ›beyond‹ of narrative, about the myriad constellations in which narrativity interlaces with, rubs against, or morphs into the principles of other forms. To conceptualize these borderlands, the book introduces the notion of »narrative liminality,« which the 16 articles utilize to engage literature, popular culture, digital technology, historical artifacts, and other kinds of texts from a time span of close to 200 years.

Author : Michael Butter,Maurus Reinkowski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110338270

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Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East by Michael Butter,Maurus Reinkowski Pdf

Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East is the first book to approach conspiracy theorizing from a decidedly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Whereas previous studies have engaged with conspiracy theories within national frameworks only, this collection of essays draws attention to the fact that conspiracist visions are transnational narratives that travel between and connect different cultures. It focuses on the United States and the Middle East because these two regions of the world are entangled in manifold ways and conspiracy theories are currently extremely prominent in both. The contributors to the volume are scholars of Middle Eastern Studies, Anthropology, History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, and American Studies, who approach the subject from a variety of different theories and methodologies. However, all of them share the fundamental assumption that conspiracy theories must not be dismissed out of hand or ridiculed. Usually wrong and frequently dangerous, they are nevertheless articulations of and distorted responses to needs and anxieties that must be taken seriously. Focusing on individual case studies and displaying a high sensitivity for local conditions and the cultural environment, the essays offer a nuanced image of the workings of conspiracy theories in the United States and the Middle East.

Author : Gabriel Weimann
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761919865

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Communicating Unreality by Gabriel Weimann Pdf

This study reviews the images and meanings which play a vital role in our mass-mediated world. The author demonstrates that there is often a large gap between reality and the reconstruction of realities as communicated by the mass media.

Author : Charles Seife
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780698163515

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Virtual Unreality by Charles Seife Pdf

The bestselling author of Proofiness and Zero explains how to separate fact from fantasy in the digital world Digital information is a powerful tool that spreads unbelievably rapidly, infects all corners of society, and is all but impossible to control—even when that information is actually a lie. In Virtual Unreality, Charles Seife uses the skepticism, wit, and sharp facility for analysis that captivated readers in Proofiness and Zero to take us deep into the Internet information jungle and cut a path through the trickery, fakery, and cyber skullduggery that the online world enables. Taking on everything from breaking news coverage and online dating to program trading and that eccentric and unreliable source that is Wikipedia, Seife arms his readers with actual tools—or weapons—for discerning truth from fiction online.

Author : Ian I. Mitroff,Warren G. Bennis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780195083989

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The Unreality Industry by Ian I. Mitroff,Warren G. Bennis Pdf

Fortells the trend that mass media outlets are helping to blur the line between reality and fantasy.

Author : Eleonora Ravizza
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783662618745

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Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture by Eleonora Ravizza Pdf

In this book, Eleonora Ravizza analyzes how contemporary American popular culture has represented and reproduced the fifties. By investigating the cultural work of films and TV series from the last two decades, the book uncovers the inherent limitations of a ‘revisionist’ take on the fifties. Ravizza argues that, due to the visual nature of the fifties—crystallized in American consciousness through the widespread influence of television—most contemporary attempts to rework and rewrite the regressive gender, queer, and racial politics fall short of such a revisionist reevaluation. ​

Author : Mark Romel
Publisher : Magus Books
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Seer of Unreality: The Hyperreality Wars by Mark Romel Pdf

The strangest of all wars has broken out. The Third World War is the Unreality War. Some call it the Hyperreal War, the war of the "more real than real". Reality can deliver only so much. Human fantasy, by contrast, knows no bounds. Reality acknowledges constraints. Fantasy doesn't. The hyperreal is where human fantasy, rather than reality, drives humanity's perceived reality. Actual reality is reduced to nostalgia. As technology improves, it delivers human fantasy with ever more power. It does so via vivid, luscious screens, the perfect medium of human fantasy. The World has been replaced by the Screen. The more people look at the screen rather than at the world, the more they are in hyperreality. Come inside and explore the strangest of all worlds.

Author : Elisa Gabbert
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374720339

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The Unreality of Memory by Elisa Gabbert Pdf

"Terror, disaster, memory, selfhood, happiness . . . leave it to a poet to tackle the unthinkable so wisely and so wittily."* A literary guide to life in the pre-apocalypse, The Unreality of Memory collects profound and prophetic essays on the Internet age’s media-saturated disaster coverage and our addiction to viewing and discussing the world’s ills. We stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase “Did you see?” The feeling that we’re living in the worst of times seems to be intensifying, alongside a desire to know precisely how bad things have gotten—and each new catastrophe distracts us from the last. The Unreality of Memory collects provocative, searching essays on disaster culture, climate anxiety, and our mounting collective sense of doom. In this new collection, acclaimed poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert explores our obsessions with disasters past and future, from the sinking of the Titanic to Chernobyl, from witch hunts to the plague. These deeply researched, prophetic meditations question how the world will end—if indeed it will—and why we can’t stop fantasizing about it. Can we avoid repeating history? Can we understand our moment from inside the moment? With The Unreality of Memory, Gabbert offers a hauntingly perceptive analysis of our new ways of being and a means of reconciling ourselves to this unreal new world. "A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery.” *—Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less

Author : Jim Davis
Publisher : Boom! Studios
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781613986462

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Garfield Original Graphic Novel: Unreality TV by Jim Davis Pdf

It's showtime in this second original graphic novel of Garfield! The infamous Fat Cat thinks Nermal is annoying, but he has no idea what's in store as he becomes a contestant on a reality TV program. Join Garfield, Odie, and Jon in a series of all-new adventures from legendary Garfield and Friends show writer Mark Evanier, ongoing Garfield contributors Scott Nickel and Antonio Alfaro, and New York Times best-selling cartoonist Judd Winick (Hilo).

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Human Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Civil service ethics
ISBN : PURD:32754076784184

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Unauthorized Transfers of Nonpublic Information During the 1980 Presidential Election by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Human Resources Pdf

Author : Ian I. Mitroff,Abraham Silvers
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804759960

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Dirty Rotten Strategies by Ian I. Mitroff,Abraham Silvers Pdf

Discusses how and why organizations and special interest groups of all kinds attempt to solve the wrong problems with intricate solutions.