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Get the Summary of Ted Cruz's Unwoke in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. According to Texas Senator Ted Cruz, America is under a woke assault from the Marxists of the Democratic Party. Unwoke (2023) is a critique of Marxism and its influence on American society, drawing from historical context and Cruz ' s experiences as the son of Cuban immigrants who fled communist oppression. Cruz, a conservative Republican, argues...
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Tras muchas décadas de debate público acerca de la influencia que ejerce el dinero (y sus poseedores) en el funcionamiento democrático en general y, particularmente, sobre la agenda pública, resulta evidente que la ciudadanía es sensible y está atenta a la cuestión del financiamiento de la política. De hecho, no existen, en las democracias contemporáneas, voces públicas que estén en desacuerdo con la premisa que afirma que la ciudadanía...
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In an age of email lists and discussion groups, e-zines and weblogs, bringing together users, consumers, workers and activists from around the globe, what kinds of political subjectivity are emerging? What kinds of politics become possible in a time of information overload and media saturation? What structures of power and control operate over a self-organising system like the internet?
In this highly original new work, Tiziana Terranova investigates...
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Get the Summary of Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt's How Democracies Die in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt examines the erosion of democratic norms and the rise of authoritarian leaders through historical and contemporary examples. The authors highlight the cases of Mussolini, Hitler, and Chávez, where political elites mistakenly believed they could...
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Esther Leslie's path-breaking study of Walter Benjamin is unlike any other book presently available in English on Benjamin, in seeking to make a case for a more politicised reading of Benjamin's oeuvre. In looking at the entirety of Benjamin's work - rather than the four or five essays available in English which tend to form the Benjamin 'canon' - Leslie offers powerful new insights into a key twentieth-century political thinker, correcting the post-structuralist...
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'Remarkable ... a major contribution to our understanding and handling of one of the crucial contemporary issues that acquires more gravity by the day.' Zygmunt Bauman
This is an in-depth sociological study of the phenomenon of anti-racism, as both political discourse and social movement practice in western Europe.
Lentin develops a comparative study of anti-racism in Britain, France, Italy and Ireland. While 'race' and racism have been...
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This is a guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated erotic novel, The Story of the Eye. Benjamin Noys introduces Bataille as a writer out of step with the dominant intellectual trends of his day - surrealism and existentialism - and shows that it was his very marginality that accounted in large part for his subsequent importance for the post-structuralists and the counterculture,...
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Bringing together many Surrealist texts that have never previously been available in English, this collection is an essential guide for anyone who wishes to understand the Surrealist movement.
It traces its development in the words of the Surrealists themselves, offering a definitive expression of Surrealism as a collective movement. It shows the extent of Surrealist positions and interests and shows how, having become a major cultural phenomenon...
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The turn of the millennium is characterised by exponential growth in everything related to communication – from the internet and email to air traffic. Tyranny of the Moment deals with the most perplexing paradoxes of this new information age.
Who would have expected that apparently timesaving technology results in time being scarcer than ever? And has this seemingly limitless access to information led to confusion rather than enlightenment?
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The vibrant fine arts and mass culture that the United Stated exported to Britain in the postwar period had a powerful and far-reaching impact on many British artists, art students and critics. In a fascinating social and cultural history covering the period from the 1940s to the 1990s, but with emphasis on the 1950s and 1960s, John A. Walker offers a scholarly but accessible account of America's Cold War cultural offensive and the role played by...
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Get the Summary of Stuart Stevens's The Conspiracy to End America in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Conspiracy to End America" by Stuart Stevens offers an in-depth analysis of the transformation of the Republican Party and the role of conservative media in shaping political narratives. Stevens, a former political consultant, reflects on his career and the influence of figures like Roger Ailes, who later led...
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The growing cult of the celebrity in contemporary culture is throwing up paradoxical ideas about the contradictions between 'high' art and mass appeal and blurring the already unstable boundaries between art, commodity and popular culture.
This is a lively and accessible study of the phenomenon, informed by a look at what happens when the 'serious' world of art collides with celebrity. Global culture is now dominated by celebrities, some of...
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Get the Summary of Martin Baron's Collision of Power in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. A month after Donald Trump became president, The Washington Post adopted a mission statement: "Democracy Dies in Darkness." Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had used the phrase before, and now he wanted to make clear where he stood after buying the capital's flagship newspaper. It was an intense period of political upheaval and media...
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This material is useful regardless of the size of the campaign arena and is easily scalable from running for class president up to a national electoral challenge.During the last 100 years, many writers have applied Sun Tzu's book on war to business, sports, and, of course, various levels of politics. His instructions, considerations, suggestions, and warnings have been directly integrated into offensive and defensive strategies and tactics that have...
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The keyword here is hypnosis. I have observed when having discussions with people how common it is that people have a base set of standards that have absolutely nothing to do with functional reality; they are simply an accepted (from parents, church, teacher, scientist, authority figures) set of beliefs and accordingly behavioral patterns. Choices are made completely out of awareness. Actions are taken with the blind assumption that it's ok. And conversely...
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A comienzos de 2023, en un foro sobre la concentración del poder público y el creciente autoritarismo que está experimentándose en México, el gran politólogo polaco Adam Przeworski hizo un diagnóstico contundente: por los graves riesgos a la convivencia política presente y futura, en México el daño ya está hecho. Extendiendo esa idea a otros ámbitos de la vida pública, en estas páginas se hace un balance, casi final, de la presente administración....
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Palestinians in Israel considers a key issue ignored by the official 'peace process' and most mainstream commentators: that of the growing Palestinian minority within Israel itself.
What the Israeli right-wing calls 'the demographic problem' Ben White identifies as 'the democratic problem' which goes to the heart of the conflict. Israel defines itself not as a state of its citizens, but as a Jewish state, despite the substantial and increasing...
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Who are the most influential thinkers, and which are the most important concepts, events, and documents in the study of the American political tradition? How ought we regard the beliefs and motivations of the founders, the debate over the ratification of the Constitution, the historical circumstances of the Declaration of Independence, the rise of the modern presidency, and the advent of judicial supremacy? These are a few of the fascinating questions...
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Examines the organization, regulation, and enactment of civic engagement within AmeriCorps, an American volunteer service program.
Over the last thirty years, calls for the civic engagement of the American citizenry, especially young people, have gotten increasingly louder. A clear message has emerged that today's pressing social problems are best addressed through the innovative and entrepreneurial work of citizens. But what are we learning about...
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