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This book is a collective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic. With
first-hand accounts of the pandemic as it unfolded, it explores the
social and the political through the lens of the outbreak.
Featuring contributors located in India, the United States, Brazil,
the United Kingdom, Germany, and Bulgaria, the book presents us
with simultaneous multiple histories of our time. The volume
documents the beginning of social distancing and lockdown measures
adopted by countries around the world and analyses how these bore
upon prevailing social conditions in specific locations. It
presents the authors' personal observations in a lucid
conversational style as they reflect on themes such as the
reorganization of political debates and issues, the experience of
the marginalized, theodicy, government policy responses, and shifts
into digital space under lockdown, all of these under an
overarching narrative of the healthcare and economic crisis facing
the world. A unique and engaging contribution, this book will be
useful to students and researchers of sociology, public health,
political economy, public policy, and comparative politics. It will
also appeal to general readers interested in pandemic literature.
This book is a collective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic. With
first-hand accounts of the pandemic as it unfolded, it explores the
social and the political through the lens of the outbreak.
Featuring contributors located in India, the United States, Brazil,
the United Kingdom, Germany, and Bulgaria, the book presents us
with simultaneous multiple histories of our time. The volume
documents the beginning of social distancing and lockdown measures
adopted by countries around the world and analyses how these bore
upon prevailing social conditions in specific locations. It
presents the authors' personal observations in a lucid
conversational style as they reflect on themes such as the
reorganization of political debates and issues, the experience of
the marginalized, theodicy, government policy responses, and shifts
into digital space under lockdown, all of these under an
overarching narrative of the healthcare and economic crisis facing
the world. A unique and engaging contribution, this book will be
useful to students and researchers of sociology, public health,
political economy, public policy, and comparative politics. It will
also appeal to general readers interested in pandemic literature.
Modernism and Coherence is an attempt to develop a negative
aesthetics conceived as determinate resistance of artworks against
the meaning assigned to them by criticism. From the accumulation of
arguments on great texts of modernism, the book describes gestures
of refusal that generate figures of negativity: Adorno's Aesthetic
Theory becomes a whirlpool revolving around a center refusing
predication; Wallace Stevens' poetry exhibits a phonetic escape
valve against the pressure of reality; Robert Frost writes a poem
that is ahead of you in both senses of the expression; and James
Joyce's Ulysses reads its readers in waves of self-folding. This
book is an effort to salvage literature as something in itself in a
world that increasingly can only see what is for the other.
The concept of culture industry leads a double life. On the one
hand, it appears as transparent, being used widely and freely in
reference to a branch of business; on the other, it is a notion
belonging to a critical tradition that wants to preserve the
tension resulting from the juxtaposition of these two words.
Culture Industry Today is a contribution to the latter trend, which
takes into account the current prevalence of the former. By
offering interpretations of the term in relation to philosophy,
media, television, the Third World, the psyche and the culture of
consumption, the book aims at showing the continued relevance of an
expression whose muteness is the corroboration of its darkest
content.
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