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Politics of Everyday Fear.
Title:
Politics of Everyday Fear.
Author:
Massumi, Brian.
ISBN:
9780816684724
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (347 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- I. Buying and Being at the Border -- 1. Everywhere You Want to Be: Introduction to Fear -- 2. The Broken Line -- 3. Califas -- 4. Liberty Net Computer Bulletin Board -- II. Mutations of Domination -- 5. The Sovereign Police -- 6. Testimony -- 7. The Game -- 8. Back to the Witch -- 9. Bodies of Fear: The Films of David Cronenberg -- III. Dominations of Mutation -- 10. Good Touches, Bad Touches -- 11. Poison -- 12. Censored -- IV. The Traffic in Morbidity -- 13. The Skull of Charlotte Corday -- 14. The Primal Accident -- 15. Two Infinities of Risk -- 16. The Forensic Theater: Memory Plays for the Postmortem Condition -- V. Buying and Being at the Edge -- 17. Shopping Disorders -- VI. Screening: Home and Nation -- 18. Television's Unheimlich Home -- 19. Fear and the Family Sedan -- 20. Telefear: Watching War News -- Illustration and Quotation Sources -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
The contemporary consumer is bombarded with fear-inducing images and information. This media shower of imagery is equalled only by the sheer quantity of fear-assuaging products offered for our consumption. The contributors address questions raised by the saturation of social space by capitalized fear.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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