"Giroux refuses to give in or give up. _The Violence of Organized
Forgetting_ is a clarion call to imagine a different America--just,
fair, and caring--and then to struggle for it."--Bill Moyers
"Henry Giroux has accomplished an exciting, brilliant intellectual
dissection of America's somnambulent voyage into anti-democratic
political depravity. His analysis of the plight of America's youth is
particularly heartbreaking. If we have a shred of moral fibre left in
our beings, Henry Giroux sounds the trumpet to awaken it to action to
restore to the nation a civic soul."--Dennis J. Kucinich, former US
Congressman and Presidential candidate
"Giroux lays out a blistering critique of an America governed by the
tenets of a market economy. . . . He cites French philosopher Georges
Didi-Huberman's concept of the 'disimagination machine' to describe a
culture and pedagogical philosophy that short-circuits citizens'
ability to think critically, leaving the generation now reaching
adulthood unprepared for an 'inhospitable' world. Picking apart the
current malaise of 21st-century digital disorder, Giroux describes a
world in which citizenship is replaced by consumerism and the
functions of engaged governance are explicitly beholden to
corporations."--_Publishers Weekly_
In a series of essays that explore the intersections of politics,
popular culture, and new forms of social control in American society,
Henry A. Giroux explores how state and corporate interests have
coalesced to restrict civil rights, privatize what's left of public
institutions, and diminish our collective capacity to participate as
engaged citizens of a democracy.
From the normalization of mass surveillance, lockdown drills, and a
state of constant war, to corporate bailouts paired with public
austerity programs that further impoverish struggling families and
communities, Giroux looks to flashpoints in current events to reveal
how the forces of government and business are at work to generate a
culture of mass forgetfulness, obedience and conformity. In _The
Violence of Organized Forgetting_, Giroux deconstructs the stories
created to control us while championing the indomitable power of
education, democracy, and hope.
Henry A. Giroux is a world-renowned educator, author and public
intellectual. He currently holds the Global TV Network Chair
Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural
Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at
Ryerson University. _The Toronto Star_ has named Henry Giroux one of
the twelve Canadians changing the way we think."
More Praise for Henry A. Giroux's _The Violence of Organized
Forgetting_:
"I can think of no book in the last ten years as essential as this. I
can think of no other writer who has so clinically dissected the
crisis of modern life and so courageously offered a possibility for
real material change."--John Steppling, playwright, and author of _The
Shaper, Dogmouth,_ and _Sea of Cortez_
"A timely study if there ever was one, _The Violence of Organized
Forgetting_ is a milestone in the struggle to repossess the common
sense expropriated by the American power elite to be redeployed in its
plot to foil the popular resistance against rising social injustice
and decay of political democracy."--Zygmunt Bauman, author of _Does
the Richness of the Few Benefit Us All?_ among other works
Prophetic and eloquent, Giroux gives us, in this hard-hitting and
compelling book, the dark scenario of Western crisis where ignorance
has become a virtue and wealth and power the means of ruthless abuse
of workers, of the minorities and of immigrants. However, he remains
optimistic in his affirmation of radical humanity, determined as he is
to relate himself to a fair and caring world unblemished by
anti-democratic political depravity."--Shelley Walia, _Frontline_
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ISBN
9780872866201
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
City Lights Publishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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