Surrealpolitik

Author : John Schoneboom
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785359507

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Surrealpolitik by John Schoneboom Pdf

Our times are not just weird, but literally surreal: we live in a paranoid, increasingly authoritarian culture in which the real, the presumed and the purported are indistinguishable strands of a dense hallucinatory web of mediated spectacles. Surrealpolitik takes up cultural theorist Mark Fisher’s challenge to expose capitalist realism’s 'realism' as nothing of the sort. To subject the symbolic order to a surrealist mode of inquiry is to transgress taboos, reveal biases and inconsistencies, test assumptions and investigate the extent to which the real is, like our dreams - a fungible projection of our unconscious expectations. The nexus of dreams, hyperreality, paranoia, totalitarianism, terror, art, myth and culture is where realpolitik becomes the surrealpolitik of the title.

Author : Sidney Blumenthal
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781402774515

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The Strange Death of Republican America by Sidney Blumenthal Pdf

Sidney Blumenthal—trenchant analyst, best-selling author, and senior adviser to former President Bill Clinton (and more recently, Hillary)—offers a penetrating journalistic and historical examination of the ongoing collapse of Republicanism. Closely charting the Party’s imploding reputation in America and the world, as well as the potential consequences of George W. Bush’s radical presidency for the 2008 election, The Strange Death of Republican America will be required reading for anyone interested in politics and concerned about the fate of the nation. In these essays and opinion columns written by Blumenthal over the past few years for The Guardian of London and salon.com, along with a new and stimulating introduction, Blumenthal provides a unifying and overarching perspective on the Bush years. Blumenthal scrutinizes the past and present state of the Republican Party, which he believes portends the incipient demise of their vaunted political machine and the Republican era since the Nixon administration. The issues on the table range from the legacy of Nixon’s imperial presidency and its influence on Dick Cheney to Karl Rove’s failed strategy for political realignment, as well as conflicts within the military and intelligence communities over Bush’s policies, and the underlying political shifts that are demonstrably weakening the once-strong foundations of Republican philosophy and governance. These essays have the cumulative effect of an irresistible factual and historical tide—a portrait of a party in self-destructive decline that will grab the attention of anyone fascinated by the world of politics. A selection of the Progressive Book Club.

Author : Bernard Edward Brown
Publisher : Morristown, N.J. : General Learning Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Paris (France)
ISBN : UOM:39015020638303

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Protest in Paris by Bernard Edward Brown Pdf

Author : Joseba Zulaika,William Douglass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134954056

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Terror and Taboo by Joseba Zulaika,William Douglass Pdf

Terror and Taboo is about the mythology of terrorism; it is an exploration of the ways we talk about terrorism. It offers incontestable evidence to support the idea that we give power to terrorism by the way we write and talk about it. According to Zulaika and Douglass, we make terrorism worse by the way we represent it in the media and in everyday conversation. Through their examination of terrorism, they propose to remove the taboos surrounding terrorism. Terror and Taboo is full of examples to ground the authors premise, ranging from specific examples, such as tendency to talk more about where Timothy McVeigh shopped for weapons than about the international traffic in arms by legitimate nations, to more theoretical interpretations that will be familiar to readers of cultural studies books.

Author : Horacio Castellanos Moya
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811219846

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Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya Pdf

A Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner from the Black Mountain Institute: Senselessness, acclaimed Salvadoran author Horacio Castallanos Moya's astounding debut in English, explores horror with hilarity and electrifying panache. A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army's massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. The writer's job is to tidy it up: he rants, "that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and giving a manicure to the Catholic hands that were piously getting ready to squeeze the balls of the military tiger." Mesmerized by the strange Vallejo-like poetry of the Indians' phrases ("the houses they were sad because no people were inside them"), the increasingly agitated and frightened writer is endangered twice over: by the spell the strangely beautiful heart-rending voices exert over his tenuous sanity, and by real danger—after all, the murderers are the very generals who still run this unnamed Latin American country.

Author : John Schoneboom
Publisher : Dedalus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Lighthouse keepers
ISBN : 1909232890

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Fontoon by John Schoneboom Pdf

Fontoon is an archetypal Dedalus novel: absurdly funny, erudite, grotesquely surreal, and totally unique. At the edge of the city, Admiral Fontoon tends the lighthouse at Wossafocken Point and dreams of being a famous poet. His odds are poor, as he spends far more time lost in thoughts about exactly how big Jupiter must be than writing actual poetry. He is also constantly undermined by the Fontoon Wrecking Company - a secret organisation dedicated entirely to his personal humiliation. Nevertheless his dream comes true when a top spotter of poetic dispositions helps him to become an enormously influential media person. Fontoon's inspiring words begin to solve the world's biggest problems, until his weirdest and most disgusting personal idiosyncrasy is publicly exposed.

Author : Michael Grosso
Publisher : Stillpoint Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Death
ISBN : UCSC:32106008052539

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The Final Choice by Michael Grosso Pdf

The meaning of death changes from culture to culture, and is evolving as we speak. The modern near-death experience transforms the meaning of death into something quite different from the mainline view of death as the extinction of consciousness.

Author : Nhem Boraden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313393389

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The Khmer Rouge by Nhem Boraden Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive yet concise narrative of the history of the Khmer Rouge, from its inception during the 1950s through its eventual reintegration into Cambodian society in 1998. The Khmer Rouge: Ideology, Militarism, and the Revolution That Consumed a Generation examines the entire organizational life of the Khmer Rouge, looking at it from both a societal and organizational perspective. The chapters cover each pivotal period in the history of the Khmer Rouge, explaining how extreme militarism, organizational dynamics, leadership policies, and international context all conspired to establish, maintain, and destroy the Khmer Rouge as an organization. The work goes beyond inspecting the actions of a few key leadership individuals to describe the interaction among different groups of elites as well as the ideologies and culture that formed the structural foundation of the organization.

Author : Courtney Work
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789207736

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Tides of Empire by Courtney Work Pdf

At the forested edge of Cambodia’s development frontier, the infrastructures of global development engulf the land and existing social practices like an incoming tide. Cambodia’s distinctive history of imperial surge and rupture makes it easier to see the remains of earlier tides, which are embedded in the physical landscape, and also floating about in the solidifying boundaries of religious, economic, and political classifications. Using stories from the hybrid population of settler-farmers, loggers, and soldiers, all cutting new social realities from the water and the land, this book illuminates the contradictions and continuities in what the author suggests is the final tide of empire.

Author : Marc Estrin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101220771

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Insect Dreams by Marc Estrin Pdf

The metamorphosis of Kafka’s Gregor Samsa from fabric salesman to cockroach was surely one of the momentous transformations of the modern world. Now, in Marc Estrin’s astounding debut, Gregor undergoes yet another metamorphosis—one that propels him across the rocky and often ridiculous landscape of the early twentieth century. In these continuously surprising pages, Estrin’s Gregor—secretly sold to a Viennese sideshow by the Samsas’ chambermaid—comes to sharpen his mind against those of Wittgenstein, Spengler and Einstein; dance to the crazy rhythm of American Prohibition; appear as a surprise witness at the Scopes trial; become intimately involved in Alice Paul’s feminist movement (and with Alice Paul); encounter the KKK; and confer with FDR, and Robert Oppenheimer—and emerge from it all as the very essence of modern conscience.

Author : John Shannon Brady,Beverly Crawford,Sarah Elise Wiliarty
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0472085913

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The Postwar Transformation of Germany by John Shannon Brady,Beverly Crawford,Sarah Elise Wiliarty Pdf

DIVOffers a review of how Germany changed in the fifty years since the formation of the Federal Republic of Germany by some of our most distinguished scholars /div

Author : Leo Suryadinata,Benjamin Loh
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789815011593

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Rising China and New Chinese Migrants in Southeast Asia by Leo Suryadinata,Benjamin Loh Pdf

New Chinese migration is a recent development that has just entered an initial phase. An overarching theme and conclusion across the sixteen chapters in this volume is that China’s policy towards Chinese migrants has changed from period to period, and it is still too early for us to determine if Beijing will continue to pursue the policy of luoye guigen (return to original roots) or will revert to one of luodi shenggen (sink into local roots). The various chapters also show that the profile, motivations and outlooks of xin yimin (new Chinese migrants) have become more diverse, while local reactions to these new migrants have become less accommodating with increasing nationalism.

Author : John Bloomberg-Rissman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780990776116

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In the House of the Hangman volume 2 by John Bloomberg-Rissman Pdf

A marathon dance mix consisting of thousands of mashed up text and image samples, In the House of the Hangman tries to give a taste of what life is like there, where it is impolite to speak of the noose. It is the third part of the life project Zeitgeist Spam. If you can't afford a copy ask me for a pdf.

Author : James Pettifer,Tom Buchanan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857726414

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War in the Balkans by James Pettifer,Tom Buchanan Pdf

The history of the Balkans incorporates all the major historical themes of the 20th Century--the rise of nationalism, communism and fascism, state-sponsored genocide and urban warfare. Focusing on the centuries opening decades, War in the Balkans seeks to shed new light on the Balkan Wars through approaching each regional and ethnic conflict as a separate actor, before placing them in a wider context. Although top-down 'Great Powers' historiography is often used to describe the beginnings of the World War I, not enough attention has been paid to the events in the region in the years preceding the Archduke Ferdinand's assassination. The Balkan Wars saw the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the end of the Bulgarian Kingdom (then one of the most powerful military countries in the region), an unprecedented hardening of Serbian nationalism, the swallowing up of Slovenes, Croats and Slovaks in a larger Balkan entity, and thus set in place the pattern of border realignments which would become familiar for much of the twentieth century.

Author : Tom H. Hastings
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476615615

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A New Era of Nonviolence by Tom H. Hastings Pdf

This book is an exploration of nonviolent strategies and tactics that have been used to prevent and end civil wars, invasions, and occupations. The problem of war is examined in light of efforts to transform destructive conflict into constructive conflict. Research into alternatives has produced a corpus of knowledge that enables civil society increasingly to expect success when it engages decision-makers in peaceful conflict resolution. The book asks the reader to consider the questions of social conflict using a cost-benefit analysis—which can reveal the advisability of strategic nonviolence. Research into the causes and correlates of war is robust, and when that research is applied to comparisons of conflict management methods, numerous conclusions about potential strategies for ending war emerge.