Passion and Paranoia, Bloch

Автор: Melley Timothy
Название: Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America
ISBN: 0801486068 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801486067
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillance, and corporate and government plots. At the heart of these developments, he believes, lies a widespread sense of crisis in the way Americans think about human autonomy and individuality. Nothing reveals this crisis more than the remarkably consistent form of expression that Melley calls "agency panic"—an intense fear that individuals can be shaped or controlled by powerful external forces. Drawing on a broad range of forms that manifest this fear—including fiction, film, television, sociology, political writing, self-help literature, and cultural theory—Melley provides a new understanding of the relation between postwar American literature, popular culture, and cultural theory.Empire of Conspiracy offers insightful new readings of texts ranging from Joseph Heller's Catch-22 to the Unabomber Manifesto, from Vance Packard's Hidden Persuaders to recent addiction discourse, and from the "stalker" novels of Margaret Atwood and Diane Johnson to the conspiracy fictions of Thomas Pynchon, William Burroughs, Don DeLillo, and Kathy Acker. Throughout, Melley finds recurrent anxieties about the power of large organizations to control human beings. These fears, he contends, indicate the continuing appeal of a form of individualism that is no longer wholly accurate or useful, but that still underpins a national fantasy of freedom from social control.

Автор: Deane, Laura
Название: Gender, madness, and colonial paranoia in australian literature
ISBN: 149854732X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498547321
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: This book rethinks women`s madness through a rigorous analysis of colonial paranoia. Arguing that colonialism produces a distinct cultural expression of women`s madness, this book contends that it is the male characters of the novels who exhibit symptoms of colonial paranoia, as inheritors and agents of the colonial enterprise.

Автор: Charlotte Bloch
Название: Passion and Paranoia: Emotions and the Culture of Emotion in Academia
ISBN: 1409442543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409442547
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Suitable for sociologists and anthropologists researching work and organizations, emotion, academic culture and social relationships, this title shows how focusing on emotions in organizations can offer insights into important aspects and the dynamics of organizational processes.