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Concise introduction to the development of conspiracy theories
during the pandemic. Takes a balanced approach drawing on empirical
data and social science research rather than sensationalism. Seeks
to understand rather than just condemn or mock conspiracy
theorists.
Concise introduction to the development of conspiracy theories
during the pandemic. Takes a balanced approach drawing on empirical
data and social science research rather than sensationalism. Seeks
to understand rather than just condemn or mock conspiracy
theorists.
A voice on late night radio tells you that a fast food joint
injects its food with drugs that make men impotent. A colleague
asks if you think the FBI was in on 9/11. An alien abductee on the
Internet claims extra-terrestrials have planted a microchip in her
left buttock. 'Julia Roberts in Porn Scandal' shouts the front page
of a gossip mag. A spiritual healer claims he can cure chronic
fatigue syndrome with the energizing power of crystals . . . What
do you believe? Knowledge Goes Pop examines the popular knowledges
that saturate our everyday experience. We make this information and
then it shapes the way we see the world. How valid is it when
compared to official knowledge and why does such (mis)information
cause so much institutional anxiety? Knowledge Goes Pop examines
the range of knowledge, from conspiracy theory to plain gossip, and
its role and impact in our culture.
A voice on late night radio tells you that a fast food joint
injects its food with drugs that make men impotent. A colleague
asks if you think the FBI was in on 9/11. An alien abductee on the
Internet claims extra-terrestrials have planted a microchip in her
left buttock. 'Julia Roberts in Porn Scandal' shouts the front page
of a gossip mag. A spiritual healer claims he can cure chronic
fatigue syndrome with the energizing power of crystals . . . What
do you believe? Knowledge Goes Pop examines the popular knowledges
that saturate our everyday experience. We make this information and
then it shapes the way we see the world. How valid is it when
compared to official knowledge and why does such (mis)information
cause so much institutional anxiety? Knowledge Goes Pop examines
the range of knowledge, from conspiracy theory to plain gossip, and
its role and impact in our culture.
This work explores new theories and directions in cultural studies.
What should or could cultural studies look like in the 21st
Century? New Cultural Studies is both an introductory reference
work and an original study which explores some of the most exciting
new directions currently being opened up in cultural studies. A new
generation has begun to emerge from the shadow of the Birmingham
School: a generation who have turned to theory as a means to think
through some of the crucial problems and issues in contemporary
culture. New Cultural Studies collects for the first time the ideas
of this generation and explains just why theory continues to be
crucial for cultural studies.The book explores theory's past,
present and future role in cultural studies, providing students and
researchers alike with an authoritative and accessible guide to:
some of the most interesting members of this 'post-Birmingham
school' generation; the thinkers and theories currently influencing
new work in cultural studies: Agamben, Badiou, Deleuze, Derrida,
Kittler, Laclau, Levinas, and Zizek; and the new territories being
mapped out across the intersections of cultural studies and
cultural theory: anti-capitalism, ethics, the post-humanities,
post-Marxism, new media technologies, the transnational.
Reimagining transparency and secrecy in the era of digital data
When total data surveillance delimits agency and revelations of
political wrongdoing fail to have consequences, is transparency the
social panacea liberal democracies purport it to be? This book sets
forth the provocative argument that progressive social goals would
be better served by a radical form of secrecy, at least while state
and corporate forces hold an asymmetrical advantage over the less
powerful in data control. Clare Birchall asks: How might
transparency actually serve agendas that are far from transparent?
Can we imagine a secrecy that could act in the service of, rather
than against, a progressive politics? To move beyond atomizing
calls for privacy and to interrupt the perennial tension between
state security and the public's right to know, Birchall adapts
Edouard Glissant's thinking to propose a digital "right to
opacity." As a crucial element of radical secrecy, she argues, this
would eventually give rise to a "postsecret" society, offering an
understanding and experience of the political that is free from the
false choice between secrecy and transparency. She grounds her
arresting story in case studies including the varied presidential
styles of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump; the
Snowden revelations; conspiracy theories espoused or endorsed by
Trump; WikiLeaks and guerrilla transparency; and the opening of the
state through data portals. Postsecrecy is the necessary condition
for imagining, finally, an alternative vision of "the good," of
equality, as neither shaped by neoliberal incarnations of
transparency nor undermined by secret state surveillance. Not
least, postsecrecy reimagines collective resistance in the era of
digital data.
A new generation is turning to theory to think through some of the
most crucial issues in contemporary culture. "New Cultural Studies"
provides for the first time an authoritative and accessible guide
to the ideas of this generation, explaining just why theory
continues to be central to the past, present, and future of
cultural studies. It follows prominent thinkers and theorists, such
as Agamben, Badiou, Deleuze, Derrida, Kittler, Laclau, Levinas, and
Zizek, as they map out theories of anti-capitalism, ethics, the
post-humanities, post-Marxism, and new media technologies.
Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy In an era of
open data and ubiquitous dataveillance, what does it mean to
"share"? This book argues that we are all "shareveillant" subjects,
called upon to be transparent and render data open at the same time
as the security state invests in practices to keep data closed.
Drawing on Jacques Ranciere's "distribution of the sensible," Clare
Birchall reimagines sharing in terms of a collective political
relationality beyond the veillant expectations of the state.
Reimagining transparency and secrecy in the era of digital data
When total data surveillance delimits agency and revelations of
political wrongdoing fail to have consequences, is transparency the
social panacea liberal democracies purport it to be? This book sets
forth the provocative argument that progressive social goals would
be better served by a radical form of secrecy, at least while state
and corporate forces hold an asymmetrical advantage over the less
powerful in data control. Clare Birchall asks: How might
transparency actually serve agendas that are far from transparent?
Can we imagine a secrecy that could act in the service of, rather
than against, a progressive politics? To move beyond atomizing
calls for privacy and to interrupt the perennial tension between
state security and the public's right to know, Birchall adapts
Edouard Glissant's thinking to propose a digital "right to
opacity." As a crucial element of radical secrecy, she argues, this
would eventually give rise to a "postsecret" society, offering an
understanding and experience of the political that is free from the
false choice between secrecy and transparency. She grounds her
arresting story in case studies including the varied presidential
styles of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump; the
Snowden revelations; conspiracy theories espoused or endorsed by
Trump; WikiLeaks and guerrilla transparency; and the opening of the
state through data portals. Postsecrecy is the necessary condition
for imagining, finally, an alternative vision of "the good," of
equality, as neither shaped by neoliberal incarnations of
transparency nor undermined by secret state surveillance. Not
least, postsecrecy reimagines collective resistance in the era of
digital data.
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