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A Colossal Wreck: American Diaries, from the Time of Clinton to Obama
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Alexander Cockburn |
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This book will be available in October! Pre-order available soon!
In these stunning new diaries, political journalist Alexander Cockburn paints the vast and tragic-comic canvas of America's descent to what Percy Shelley in his poem "Ozymandias" invoked as "that colossal wreck" of empire. This is history both public and private, personal and often very funny. "Alexander Cockburn has always been excepti...
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Introducing Media Studies: A Graphic Guide
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Borin Van Loon (Illustrator) and Ziauddin Sardar |
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The media is ubiquitous. Every day we watch hours of TV, listen to the radio, surf the web, read newspapers and magazines, go to the cinema or watch DVDs. The media in these forms and more exercise enormous influence and power over all of us.
Introducing Media Studies explores the complex relationship between the media, ideology, knowledge and power. It provides a scintillating tour of media hi...
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Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age
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Virginia Eubanks |
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The idea that technology will pave the road to prosperity has been promoted through both boom and bust. Today we are told that universal broadband access, high-tech jobs, and cutting-edge science will pull us out of our current economic downturn and move us toward social and economic equality. In Digital Dead End, Virginia Eubanks argues that to believe this is to engage in a kind of magical thinking:...
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Everyman's McLuhan
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Terrence W. Gordon, Marshall McLuhan (About), Jacob Albert, and Eri Hamaji |
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Anyone who has ever considered media and its relation to humanity has most likely heard the name Marshall McLuhan. Famous for his adages, he was a careful student of 20th century media, in particular film and television, and a prolific lecturer and author. Unquestionably, McLuhan's writings are important, but all too often impenetrable. As technology speeds ahead and forces us to reconsider our relationship ...
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Little Bunch of Madmen: Elements of Global Reporting
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Mort Rosenblum |
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Interest groups, noble and not, prepackage faux-news from skewed points of view. Governments bypass pesky reporters to go straight to the public. Guesswork and lies stand unchecked and unchallenged. This is cheaper than sending reporters to where real news happens. But we cannot afford the inevitable cost of shutting our eyes to reality. This little book is for people who are not prepared to desert. It is a ...
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Skeptical Essays
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Richard Kostelanetz |
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A heavyweight confronting sanctified elephants, the impossibly prolific anarchist and libertarian cultural critic targets, with dead-on accuracy and quotable wit: Andy Warhol, Harold Bloom, The New Yorker, Barack Obama, Dubya and his sidekicks, Susan Sontag, The New York Times Book Review, Marjorie Perloff, Charles Bernstein, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Victims of Literary Bullyi...
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Critical Strategies in Art and Media: Perspectives on New Cultural Practices
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Jim Fleming and Konrad Becker |
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Beyond the obsolete models of artist or author as genius and their fetish objects, what collective and collaborative practices are inventing new terrains and flows? As information and communication technologies saturate our world, how is art giving way to new forms of cultural symbolic manipulation? What new kinds of "virtual" spaces are opening up for cultural practice in electronic media? As "old media" be...
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