Author : Dubravka Ugre I
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271018478
A funny and cynical collection of essays, observations, and sketches denouncing the perversions of political and cultural life in Croatia.
Author : Marilyn McEntyre
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1467461695
With the pervasiveness of vitriol and dishonesty today, language needs to be revived and restored. In Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, Marilyn McEntyre exposes the commercial and political forces that affect public discourse in American culture and counters with twelve constructive “strategies of stewardship”—such as challenging lies (including widely tolerated forms of deception and spin), fostering the art of conversation, and encouraging playfulness and prayerfulness in writing and speaking. The second edition of this timely and timeless book includes updated cultural references and questions for reflection and discussion at the end, allowing a new generation of readers to apply McEntyre’s wisdom in a world that struggles with truth and graceful language more than ever before.
Author : Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Croatia
ISBN : 9781861591029
A funny and cynical collection of essays, apercus and sketches denouncing the preversions of political and cultural life in Croatia. Dubravka Ugresic has been holding the fort of liberal reason almost alone against a vast army of blinkered, pot-bellied, chauvinistic men, all waving checkerboard flags from the slits of their little tank turreted minds... Brave ironical, subtle, funny and clear eyed, this book should also be in English. The Culture of lies was written as a reaction to the collapse of Yugoslavia and the unholy war in Croatia and Bosnia. The collection attacks and attempts to understand events in the former Yugolsavia: aggression against people's own brother; artificialamnesties; adoption of Nationalist fascist ideologies; propaganda and censorship; folklore kitsch as a culture of a lie; writers and intellectuals caught up in the maelstrom of Nationalism. Ugresic's ascerbic and pentrating essays cover everything from politics to daily routine, from public to private life. This is 1 of the most intelligent and lucid accounts of this episode in history by a writer herself exiled and struggling to find a new identity.
Author : Susan Jacoby
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2008-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307377121
A cultural history of the last forty years, The Age of American Unreason focuses on the convergence of social forces—usually treated as separate entities—that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. These include the upsurge of religious fundamentalism, with more political power today than ever before; the failure of public education to create an informed citizenry; and the triumph of video over print culture. Sparing neither the right nor the left, Jacoby asserts that Americans today have embraced a universe of “junk thought” that makes almost no effort to separate fact from opinion.
Author : Paul H Weaver
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,8 MB
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780684863641
Paul H. Weaver's News and the Culture of Lying uses hard evidence to expose the "culture of lying," a propensity of news organizations to obscure the true meanings of news events and distort the public's conception of reality. News and Culture of Lying examines the relationship between journalists and the sources of their stories, argues that the media create an artificial sense of permanent emergency, and describes what must be done to restore credibility.
Author : Kyoko Mori
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1429934778
Twelve essays by a Japanese-American writer about being caught between past and present, old country and new. In this powerful, exquisitely crafted book, Kyoko Mori delves into her dual heritage with a rare honesty that is both graceful and stirring. From her unhappy childhood in Japan, weighted by a troubled family and a constricting culture, to the American Midwest, where she found herself free to speak as a strong-minded independent woman, though still an outsider, Mori explores the different codes of silence, deference, and expression that govern Japanese and American women's lives: the ties that bind us to family and the lies that keep us apart; the rituals of mourning that give us the courage to accept death; the images of the body that make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and second nature to Americans. In the sensitive hands of this compelling writer, one woman's life becomes the mirror of two profoundly different societies.
Author : Metzger, Richard
Publisher : Disinformation Books
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1938875109
New package for a cult classic. First published in 2003, The Book of Lies was hailed as a 21st grimoire and instantly became a cult classic. Now reformatted for the next generation of magicians and all counterculture devotees, it gathers an unprecedented cabal of occultists, esoteric scholars, and forward thinkers, all curated by Disinformation's former "wicked warlock" Richard Metzger. This compendium of the occult includes entries on topics as diverse and dangerous as Aleister Crowley, Secret Societies, Psychedelics, and Magick in theory and practice. The result is an alchemical formula that may well rip a hole in the fabric of your reality: Terence McKenna asks if we contact "aliens" with the smokable drug DMT Daniel Pinchbeck recounts his psychedelic and magical experiences Techgnosis author Eric Davis writes about H.P. Lovecraft Robert Anton Wilson writes about the similarities between Aleister Crowley and Timothy Leary Donald Tyson's "The Enochian Apocalypse Working" ask if the seeds of the end of the world sown in the Elizabethan era. Other contributors or subjects written about include Brian Barritt, Vere Chappell, Ida Craddock, Joe Coleman, Nevill Drury, Stephen Edred Flowers, T. Allen Greenfield, Gary Lachman, Anton Lavey, Peter Levenda, Grant Morrison, Michael Moynihan, Rosaleen Norton, Jack Parsons, Austin Osman Spare, and Tracy Twyman. It's all here and more!
Author : John J. Mearsheimer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199975450
Presents an analysis of the lying behavior of political leaders, discussing the reasons why it occurs, the different types of lies, and the costs and benefits to the public and other countries that result from it, with examples from the recent past.
Author : Kris Fallon
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520300939
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This boldly original book traces the evolution of documentary film and photography as they migrated onto digital platforms during the first decades of the twenty-first century. Kris Fallon examines the emergence of several key media forms—social networking and crowdsourcing, video games and virtual environments, big data and data visualization—and demonstrates the formative influence of political conflict and the documentary film tradition on their evolution and cultural integration. Focusing on particular moments of political rupture, Fallon argues that the ideological rifts of the period inspired the adoption and adaptation of newly available technologies to encourage social mobilization and political action, a function performed for much of the previous century by independent documentary film. Positioning documentary film and digital media side by side in the political sphere, Fallon asserts that “truth” now lies in a new set of media forms and discursive practices that implicitly shape the documentation of everything from widespread cultural spectacles like wars and presidential elections to more invisible or isolated phenomena like the Abu Ghraib torture scandal or the “fake news” debates of 2016.
Author : Teri Terry
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0544900480
"Twin teen girls with very different upbringings meet for the first time at their mother's funeral. As they get to know each other, it becomes clear that one of the sisters is driven by a secret destructive power-or is it both?"--Provided by publisher
