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In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its partners had
been engaging in warrantless mass surveillance, using the internet
and cellphone data, and driven by fear of terrorism under the sign
of security . In this compelling account, surveillance expert David
Lyon guides the reader through Snowden s ongoing disclosures: the
technological shifts involved, the steady rise of invisible
monitoring of innocent citizens, the collusion of government
agencies and for-profit companies and the implications for how we
conceive of privacy in a democratic society infused by the lure of
big data. Lyon discusses the distinct global reactions to Snowden
and shows why some basic issues must be faced: how we frame
surveillance, and the place of the human in a digital world.
Surveillance after Snowden is crucial reading for anyone interested
in politics, technology and society.
The continuing churn of political advisers in Donald Trump's White
House serve as a reminder of the salience and relevance of
political advice. Political Advice: Past, Present and Future brings
several very different voices to bear on the problem of advice and
influence; the distinction in so far as it is valid between
political and policy advice; the two-way parasitism of adviser and
advised; the nature and idioms of political advice literature; the
changing (and sometimes unchanging) nature of expertise; the
ever-pressing issue of access and exclusion; and how that is
controlled. This volume of essays feeds into a contemporary
concern, set in a wider historical context. Moreover, the volume
treats political advice in an interdisciplinary fashion with
contributions from classics and literature as well as from history
and politics. The unique practitioners' perspective to the problem
of political advice is brought by the contributions of politicians,
political advisers and senior civil servants.
What is at the heart of political resistance? Whilst traditional
accounts often conceptualise it as a reaction to power, this volume
(prioritising remarks by Michel Foucault) invites us to think of
resistance as primary. The author proposes a strategic analysis
that highlights how our efforts need to be redirected towards a
horizon of creation and change. Checchi first establishes a
genealogy of two main trajectories of the history of our present:
the liberal subject of rights and the neoliberal ideas of human
capital and bio-financialisation. The former emerges as a reactive
closure of Etienne de la Boetie's discourse on human nature and
natural companionship. The other forecloses the creative potential
of Autonomist Marxist conceptions of labour, first elaborated by
Mario Tronti. The focus of this text then shifts towards
contemporary openings. Initially, Checchi proposes an inverted
reading of Jacques Ranciere's concept of politics as interruption
that resonates with Antonio Negri's emphasis on Baruch Spinoza's
potential qua resistance. Finally, the author stages a virtual
encounter between Gilles Deleuze's ontology of matter and
Foucault's account of the primacy of resistance with which the text
begins. Through this series of explorations, The Primacy of
Resistance: Power, Opposition and Becoming traces a conceptual
trajectory with and beyond Foucault by affirming the affinity
between resistance and creation.
Propaganda has been a major tool of war from the earliest times and
has never been more vital, and had no greater effect, than in the
20th century - a time of continuous global conflict and two world
wars. This title includes contributions from leading academics,
media professionals and from the armed services. All aspects are
covered: the Press; radio and television, state information
services; "virtual war" and psychological operations. The 20th
century has seen major shifts in the relationship between war and
propaganda, fuelled by the huge technological advances, making
propaganda and censorship increasingly potent weapons. The text
covers conflict from the Boer War, British and German propaganda in
World War I and World War II, the Cold War, the Gulf War and
Kosovo. An important aspect - not generally realized except among
media professionals - is the control of propaganda by the Ministry
of Defence which has access to the largest single television
audience in the world through "BBC World". The role of propaganda
in the "war against terror" is also analysed in detail.
Fly, Zeppelin! Help us in the war. Fly to England, England shall be
destroyed by fire. Zeppelin, fly!' Such was the hymn which the
children sang; such the refrain which greeted the aged inventor,
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, wherever he went. Why was there this
reaction across Germany? How did a handful of aircraft giving
pleasure cruises become a fearsome fleet of rapacious giants
encouraged to punish Germany's enemies? What were the images that
became part of the public's wartime consciousness? Books on the
Zeppelin raids during the First World War have, traditionally,
focused on the direct impact of Britain, from the devastating
effects on undefended towns and cities, the psychological impact of
this first weapon of total war to the technological and strategic
advances that eventually defeated the Baby Killers'. Now, drawing
on the largest postcard collection of its kind and other period
memorabilia, David Marks tells the story of the Zeppelin during the
First World War from a viewpoint that has rarely been considered:
Germany itself. From its maiden flight in July 1900, the Zeppelin
evolved into a symbol of technology and national pride that, once
war was declared, was at the forefront of German's propaganda
campaign. The Zeppelin links the rampant xenophobia at the outbreak
of the conflict against England (it almost never called Britain),
France, Russia and their allies to the political doctrines of the
day. The postcards that profusely illustrate this book show the
wide-ranging types of propaganda from strident Teutonic imagery,
myths and legends, biting satire and a surprising amount of humour.
This book is a unique contribution to our understanding of the
place of the Zeppelin in Germany's culture and society during the
First World War.
"Rhetoric during wartime is about the creation of consensus,"
writes Justin Gustainis. In American Rhetoric and the Vietnam War,
he discusses efforts to build or destroy public support of
America's most controversial war of the century. Gustainis analyzes
several important aspects of Vietnam era rhetoric: presidential
rhetoric, protest rhetoric, and the war as portrayed in popular
culture. Broadly defining rhetoric as the deliberate use of symbols
to persuade, the author explores partisan use of speeches, marches,
songs, military campaigns, gestures, destruction of property, comic
strips, and films. Part One, Prowar Rhetoric, opens with a chapter
devoted to the domino theory as a "condensation symbol." Subsequent
chapters discuss the hero myth in reference to Kennedy and the
Green Berets, rhetoric and the Tet Offensive, and Nixon's "Silent
Majority." Part Two examines antiwar rhetoric, and includes studies
of Daniel Berrigan, SDS and the Port Huron Statement, and the
Weathermen. Gustainis argues that the antiwar movement did not stop
the war, and may have prolonged it. In Part Three, he analyzes
Doonesbury as antiwar rhetoric, then turns to an examination of how
the war has been portrayed in popular film. Gustainis includes a
political, military, and rhetorical chronology of the war as an
appendix. Recommended for scholars and students of rhetoric and
political communication.
The need for intercultural communication and understanding has
never been greater. The unstoppable confluence of technology
continues to unsympathetically disrupt, distort, and exert
consequential changes to nation states and to the breadth, depth,
and scope of sociocultural institutions. Such changes have
foregrounded the need to understand and relate to the diverse
ethical underpinnings that account for distinctive cultural norms
where global or universal collaborations are desired. Success in
the convergence of cultures in a globalized world would be
impossible in the absence of a standardized terms of reference,
which guarantees international understanding and facilitates peace
and progress the world over. Examining Ethics and Intercultural
Interactions in International Relations is an integral scholarly
publication that facilitates international collaboration through
intercultural communication and exchange of data, ideas, and
information on a broad range of topics, including ethics in
academics, business, medicine, government, and leadership. The
overarching object of this book is the improvement of a peaceful,
harmonious, and just world for all its inhabitants, such that
further progress in all endeavors is assured. Highlighting a wide
range of topics such as business ethics, early childhood education,
and sociology, this book is essential for academicians,
policymakers, professionals, educational administrators,
researchers, and students, as well as those working in fields where
ethics and human relationships are required such as education,
public and private administration or management, medicine,
sociology, and religion.
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