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Written by two award-winning reporters with unprecedented access, this is the only definitive biography of George Floyd.
The murder of George Floyd sparked a fiery summer of activism and unrest all over the world in 2020, with peaceful protests sometimes erupting into violent clashes. From Shetland to Sao Paolo, from Honolulu to Hobart, people marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, decrying Floyd's death and demanding an end to racial injustice. The movement has led corporations to redouble their efforts, universities to refocus on inclusion, and government officials to examine the causes of systemic inequality.
Drawing on The Washington Post's unrivalled archives, in-depth reporting and award-winning series on Floyd, His Name Is George Floyd is a definitive biography that dives deep into the myriad ways that structural racism shaped Floyd's life and death. Telling his personal story within the context of America's troubled race history, it features fresh and exclusive reporting as well as unparalleled access to Floyd's family and the people who were closest to the man whose name has become one of the most recognized on the planet.
By zooming in for an intimate portrait of this one, emblematic life, while also pulling back to profile the institutions that shaped it, the authors deliver a powerful exploration of institutional racism and of a public reckoning of unprecedented breadth and intensity.
- The book address a fundamental question in philosophy and
psychology and reflects on it from a fresh perspective i.e.
Freudian thought - uses an interdisciplinary approach and will be
of interest to psychotherapists, psychologists and philosophers
'His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.' Ibram X.
Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist 'An intimate, unvarnished
and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.' NEW
YORK TIMES You know how he died. This is how he lived. Who was
George Floyd? What did he hope for? What was life like for him? And
why has his death been the catalyst for such a powerful global
response? The murder of George Floyd sparked a summer of activism
and unrest all over the world in 2020, from Shetland to Sao Paolo,
as people marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, demanding an
end to racial injustice. But behind a face that would be graffitied
onto countless murals, and a name that has become synonymous with
civil rights, there is the reality of one man's stolen life. In His
Name is George Floyd we meet the kind young boy who talked his
friends out of beating up a skinny kid from another neighbourhood
and then befriended him on the walk home. Big Floyd the high school
American football player who ignored his coach's pleas to be more
aggressive and felt queasy at the sight of blood. The man who fell
victim to an opioid epidemic we are only just beginning to
understand. The sensitive son and loving father, constantly in
search of a better life in a society determined to write him off
based on things he had no control over: where he grew up, the size
of his body and the colour of his skin. Drawing upon hundreds of
interviews with friends and family members, His Name Is George
Floyd reveals the myriad ways that structural racism shaped Floyd's
life and death - from his forebears' roots in slavery to an
underfunded education, the overpolicing of his community and the
devastating snare of the prison system. By offering us an intimate
portrait of this one, emblematic life, Robert Samuels and Toluse
Olorunnipa deliver a powerful and moving exploration of how a man
who simply wanted to breathe ended up touching the world.
Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession argues that
highly praised prestige TV shows reveal the underlying fantasies
and contradictions of upper-middle class political centrists.
Through a psychoanalytic interpretation of The Sopranos, Breaking
Bad, The Wire, House of Cards, Dexter, Game of Thrones, and
Succession, Robert Samuels reveals how moderate "liberals" have
helped to produce and maintain the libertarian Right. Samuels'
analysis explores the difference between contemporary centrists and
the foundations of liberal democracy, exposing the myth of the
"liberal media" and considers the consequences of these celebrated
series, including the undermining of trust in modern liberal
democratic institutions. Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to
Succession contributes to a greater understanding of the ways media
and political ideology can circulate on a global level through the
psychopathology of class consciousness. This book will be of great
interest to academics and scholars considering intersections of
psychoanalytic studies, television studies and politics.
- The book address a fundamental question in philosophy and
psychology and reflects on it from a fresh perspective i.e.
Freudian thought - uses an interdisciplinary approach and will be
of interest to psychotherapists, psychologists and philosophers
Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession argues that
highly praised prestige TV shows reveal the underlying fantasies
and contradictions of upper-middle class political centrists.
Through a psychoanalytic interpretation of The Sopranos, Breaking
Bad, The Wire, House of Cards, Dexter, Game of Thrones, and
Succession, Robert Samuels reveals how moderate "liberals" have
helped to produce and maintain the libertarian Right. Samuels'
analysis explores the difference between contemporary centrists and
the foundations of liberal democracy, exposing the myth of the
"liberal media" and considers the consequences of these celebrated
series, including the undermining of trust in modern liberal
democratic institutions. Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to
Succession contributes to a greater understanding of the ways media
and political ideology can circulate on a global level through the
psychopathology of class consciousness. This book will be of great
interest to academics and scholars considering intersections of
psychoanalytic studies, television studies and politics.
This timely intervention into composition studies presents a case
for the need to teach all students a shared system of communication
and logic based on the modern globalizing ideals of universality,
neutrality, and empiricism. Based on a series of close readings of
contemporary writing by Stanley Fish, Asao Inoue, Doug Downs and
Elizabeth Wardle, Richard Rorty, Slavoj Zizek, and Steven Pinker,
this book critiques recent arguments that traditional approaches to
teaching writing, grammar, and argumentation foster
marginalization, oppression, and the restriction of student agency.
Instead, it argues that the best way to educate and empower a
diverse global student body is to promote a mode of academic
discourse dedicated to the impartial judgment of empirical facts
communicated in an open and clear manner. It provides a critical
analysis of core topics in composition studies, including the
teaching of grammar; notions of objectivity and neutrality;
empiricism and pragmatism; identity politics; and postmodernism.
Aimed at graduate students and junior instructors in rhetoric and
composition, as well as more seasoned scholars and program
administrators, this polemical book provides an accessible staging
of key debates that all writing instructors must grapple with.
This timely intervention into composition studies presents a case
for the need to teach all students a shared system of communication
and logic based on the modern globalizing ideals of universality,
neutrality, and empiricism. Based on a series of close readings of
contemporary writing by Stanley Fish, Asao Inoue, Doug Downs and
Elizabeth Wardle, Richard Rorty, Slavoj Zizek, and Steven Pinker,
this book critiques recent arguments that traditional approaches to
teaching writing, grammar, and argumentation foster
marginalization, oppression, and the restriction of student agency.
Instead, it argues that the best way to educate and empower a
diverse global student body is to promote a mode of academic
discourse dedicated to the impartial judgment of empirical facts
communicated in an open and clear manner. It provides a critical
analysis of core topics in composition studies, including the
teaching of grammar; notions of objectivity and neutrality;
empiricism and pragmatism; identity politics; and postmodernism.
Aimed at graduate students and junior instructors in rhetoric and
composition, as well as more seasoned scholars and program
administrators, this polemical book provides an accessible staging
of key debates that all writing instructors must grapple with.
Inspired by Freud's The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, this book
examines the unconscious processes shaping contemporary political
ideologies. Addressing ten fundamental questions, Robert Samuels
identifies four basic political ideologies: liberal, conservative,
Left, and Right, which are often placed in the structure of a
logical square, determined by two binary oppositions, with a fifth
structure of centrism complicating the square. He turns to
psychoanalysis to explain the unconscious defense mechanisms that
structure these political ideologies. Each chapter uses a recent,
influential title as a gateway to the analysis of the ideologies
and structures identified. Through this analysis, Samuels argues
that belief in ideological structures is tied to triumvirates of
institutions and ideals; conservatives being tied to premodern
institutions of religion, feudalism, and monarchy, while modern
liberals are tied to ideals of universality, objectivity, and
empiricism. He concludes that this investment in universality
shapes the ethics of modern globalization and democratic
liberalism. Unlike other books, conclusions are reinforced through
examples drawn from current events with an integrated model of
different psychopathologies. The Psychopathology of Political
Ideologies moves beyond providing an understanding of what drives
different political investments, to offer a more rational and
conscious comprehension of subjectivity and social organization.
This book will be a great resource for those interested in
politics, political science psychology, social psychology,
globalization, and ideology.
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Politicians and school officials often argue that higher education
is the solution to many of our social, and economic problems.
Educating Inequality argues that in order to reduce inequality and
enhance social mobility, public policies are needed to revamp the
financial aid system and increase the number of good jobs.
Exploring topics such as the fairness of the current social system,
the focus on individual competition in an unequal society, and
democracy and capitalism in higher education, this important book
seeks to uncover the major myths that shape how people view higher
education and its relation to the economy. Looking to models that
generate economic mobility and social equality, this book advocates
a broader vision for public higher education to promote universal
equality and global awareness.
By using the concepts developed by Lacan to analyze the inner logic
of Freud's thought, Robert Samuels provides a bridge between
Lacanian theory and traditional categories of psychoanalytic theory
and practice. In "Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis", he
constructs a stucture of subjectivity that accounts for the three
major types of psychopathology - psychosis, neurosis and perversion
- in terms of the different way each type tries to avoid the
imposition of social imperatives. While these three dimensions,
which Samuels names the existential, the phenomenological and the
structural, were never developed to a significant degree by Freud
himself, the author demonstrates that they underlie Freud's
thinking. Moreover, by articulating these three dimensions in terms
of the three registers of subjectivity formulated by Lacan - the
real, the imaginary and the symbolic - Samuels demonstrates the way
in which Lacan's work is a return to Freud. Samuels argues that
Freud's work offers a response to many questions that have
dominated Western philosophy and that, with Lacan, Freud's
philosophical presuppositions and solutions become more evident.
This book looks at the representation of viruses in rhetoric,
politics, and popular culture. In utilizing Jean Baudrillard's
concept of virality, it examines what it means to use viruses as a
metaphor. For instance, what is the effect of saying that a video
has gone viral? Does this use of biology to explain culture mean
that our societies are determined by biological forces? Moreover,
does the rhetoric of viral culture display a fundamental
insensitivity towards people who are actually suffering from
viruses? A key defining aspect of this mode of persuasion is the
notion that due to the open nature of our social and cerebral
networks, we are prone to being infected by uncontrollable external
forces. Drawing from the work of Freud, Lacan, Laclau, Baudrillard,
and Zizek, it examines the representation of viruses in politics,
psychology, media studies, and medical discourse. The book will
help readers understand the potentially destructive nature of how
viruses are represented in popular media and politics, how this can
contribute to conspiracy theories around COVID-19 and how to combat
such misinterpretations.
This book builds on a critique of Slavoj Zizek's work to outline a
new theory of psychoanalytic rhetoric. It turns to Zizek because
not only is he one of the most popular intellectuals in the world,
but, this book argues, his discourse is shaped by a set of
unconscious rhetorical processes that also determine much of
contemporary politics, culture, and subjectivity. Just as Aristotle
argued that the three main forms of persuasion are logos (reason),
pathos (emotion), and ethos (authority), Samuels describes each one
of these aspects of communication as related to a fundamental
psychoanalytic concept. He also turns to Aristotle's work on
theater to introduce a fourth form of rhetoric, catharsis, which is
the purging of feelings of fear and pity. Adding a strong voice to
current psychoanalytic debate, this book will be of value to all
scholars and students interested in both the history and modern
developments of psychoanalytic theory.
This book outlines a new model for global social justice movements
that is based on Freud and Lacan's central insights regarding the
unconscious, repetition, drives, and transference. Since most of
our current social issues are global in nature, Bob Samuels
convincingly argues that we need a global solution, but that global
solidarity is blocked by narcissistic nationalism and the
capitalist death drive. In examining contemporary social movements
for global justice, Samuels articulates a comprehensive theory of
non-pathological social solidarity, and argues that in the age of
multinational corporations and global climate change, we need a new
model of global justice and government that requires an
understanding of analytic neutrality and free association. This
book uses psychoanalytic theories and practices to explain how
someone like Trump can rise to power, and explores why liberals
have failed to provide a convincing or effective political
alternative. It will be compelling reading to students and teachers
in a range of psychological and political disciplines, and to
anyone interested in psychoanalysis and current politics.
This book outlines a new model for global social justice movements
that is based on Freud and Lacan's central insights regarding the
unconscious, repetition, drives, and transference. Since most of
our current social issues are global in nature, Bob Samuels
convincingly argues that we need a global solution, but that global
solidarity is blocked by narcissistic nationalism and the
capitalist death drive. In examining contemporary social movements
for global justice, Samuels articulates a comprehensive theory of
non-pathological social solidarity, and argues that in the age of
multinational corporations and global climate change, we need a new
model of global justice and government that requires an
understanding of analytic neutrality and free association. This
book uses psychoanalytic theories and practices to explain how
someone like Trump can rise to power, and explores why liberals
have failed to provide a convincing or effective political
alternative. It will be compelling reading to students and teachers
in a range of psychological and political disciplines, and to
anyone interested in psychoanalysis and current politics.
This book offers a unique approach by using psychoanalytic theory
to explain how we can resolve the most important issues facing the
world today and in the future. One of my main arguments is that we
need to move beyond national politics in order to provide global
solutions to global problems. However, there is a misplaced fear
concerning global governance, and much of this phobia is derived
from a misunderstanding of history and human psychology. Not only
do we have to learn to give up our idealized investment in nations
and nationalism, but we also have to move beyond seeing the world
from the perspective of a victim fantasy. Since we often repress
real signs of global progress, we experience the global present and
the future in negative ways. To reverse this perspective, we need
to first understand the incredible progress humans have made in the
last two hundred years, but we also should not ignore the real
threats we face.
Politicians and school officials often argue that higher education
is the solution to many of our social, and economic problems.
Educating Inequality argues that in order to reduce inequality and
enhance social mobility, public policies are needed to revamp the
financial aid system and increase the number of good jobs.
Exploring topics such as the fairness of the current social system,
the focus on individual competition in an unequal society, and
democracy and capitalism in higher education, this important book
seeks to uncover the major myths that shape how people view higher
education and its relation to the economy. Looking to models that
generate economic mobility and social equality, this book advocates
a broader vision for public higher education to promote universal
equality and global awareness.
This book sets out to clarify five key Freudian concepts (the
pleasure principle, the primary processes, the unconscious,
transference, and the reality principle) elaborated early on in
Freud's work but, it is argued, rarely understood-even by
psychoanalysts themselves. It examines in turn the post-Freudian
paradigms employed in neuropsychoanalysis, Lacan, Zizek, object
relations, and psychoanalytic approaches to identity politics, and
in doing so reveals the extent to which they have been distorted
and repressed in these new contexts. Over the course of the book
the author demonstrates how Freud's unpublished Project for a
Scientific Psychology can be seen as a complete system of core
concepts that both ground psychoanalysis in neurology and also
introduce a vital challenge to the brain sciences. This book will
appeal to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, clinical
psychology, and psychoanalytic theory.
This book places Freud's theory of the reality principle in
relation to both everyday experience and global issues of the 21st
century and illustrates how it may be practically applied. Arguing
against more critical recent accounts of Freud's science, the
author seeks to show how one might apply the scientific method to
everyday life. It demonstrates how Freud contributes to a better
understanding of reason and how this in turn can be used to unravel
the role of unreason in both politics and personal relationships.
Including critical examinations of topics such as Narcissism,
Victimhood and Empathy, this engaging reappraisal of Freud's
relevance to contemporary life offers fresh insights for
psychology, psychoanalysis and cultural theory; as well as
practical guidance for a general reader.
This book argues that neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and
behavioral economics often function as a political ideology
masquerading as a new science. In looking at works by Antonio
Damasio, Steven Pinker, Richard Thaler, Cas Sunstein, and John
Tooby, Robert Samuels undertakes a close reading of the new brain
sciences, and by turning to the works of Freud and Lacan, offers a
counter-discourse to these new emerging sciences. He argues that an
unintentional political manipulation of scientific thinking serves
to repress the psychoanalytic conception of the unconscious and
sexuality as it reinforces neoliberalism and promotes the drugging
of discontent. This innovative book is intended for those
interested in science, psychoanalysis, and politics and offers a
new definition of neoliberal subjectivity.
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