The violence of organized forgetting : thinking beyond America's disimagination machine by Giroux, Henry A instant download

The violence of organized forgetting : thinking beyond America's disimagination machine by Giroux, Henry A instant download

274 pages ; 18 cm, \"\"Giroux refuses to give in or give up. The Violence of Organized Forgetting is a clarion call to imagine a different America--just, fair, and caring--and then to struggle for it.\"--Bill Moyers \"Giroux is society's teacher and conscience.\"--Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina The Toronto Star has named Henry Giroux \"one of the twelve Canadians changing the way we think.\" \"America has become amnesiac,\" says Henry Giroux, \"a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.\" In a series of essays on the intersections of political power, popular culture and new methods of social control, Giroux explores how neoliberal discourse and the ongoing commodification of everyday life constitute an active assault on public memory, chip away at civil rights, and diminish the public's capacity to speak and act in its own interests. Alarmed at the increased authoritarianism creeping into all levels of national experience, Giroux looks to flashpoints in current events to reveal how the institutions of government and business are at work to generate false narratives that promote mass fear, quietism and passivity. \"The Violence of Organized Forgetting\" makes visible the untruth of these narratives and the historical, political, economic, and cultural conditions that produce them. Giroux analyzes how various institutions in American society are distracting and miseducating the public. Political and cultural responses to current event--such as the ongoing economic crisis, income inequality, health care reform, Hurricane Sandy, the war on terror, the Boston Marathon bombing, and the Chicago teacher protests--represent flashpoints that reveal a growing disregard for people's democratic rights, public accountability, and civic values. From the inflated rhetoric of the political right to market-driven media peddling spectacles of violence, the influence of these forces in…