{"product_id":"zombie-politics-and-culture-in-the-age-of-casino-capitalism-9781433127199","title":"Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the second edition of \u003ci\u003eZombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust democracy. He charts the various ways in which the political, corporate, and intellectual zombies that rule America embrace death-dealing institutions such as a bloated military, the punishing state, a form of predatory capitalism, and an authoritarian, death-driven set of policies that sanction torture, targeted assassinations, and a permanent war psychology. The author argues that government and corporate paranoia runs deep in America. While maintaining a massive security state, the ruling forces promote the internalization of their ideology, modes of governance, and policies by either seducing citizens with the decadent pleasures of a celebrity-loving consumer culture or by beating them into submission. Giroux calls for a systemic alt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContent: Zombie Politics and Other Late Modern Monstrosities in the Age of Disposability – The Politics of Lying and the Culture of Deceit in Obama’s America: The Rule of Damaged Politics – Zombie Language and the Politics of the Living Dead – Everyday Violence and the Culture of Cruelty: Entertaining Democracy’s Demise – Market-Driven Hysteria and the Politics of Death – Torturing Children: Bush’s Legacy and Democracy’s Failure: Salvos from the Culture of Cruelty – The Spectacle of Illiteracy and the Crisis of Democracy – Zombie Politics and the Challenge of Right-Wing Teaching Machines: Rethinking the Importance of the Powell Memo – Town Hall Politics as Zombie Theater: Rethinking the Importance of the Public Sphere – Reclaiming Public Values in the Age of Casino Capitalism – No Bailouts for Youth: Broken Promises and Dashed Hopes – Zero Tolerance Policies and the Death of Reason: Schools and the Pedagogy of Punishment – Brutalizing Kids: Painful Lessons in the Pedagogy of School Violence – Tortured Memories and the Culture of War – Youth Beyond the Politics of Hope – In the Dead Zone of Capitalism – Disimagination Machines and Punishing Factories in the Age of Zombie Capitalism.","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039574819159,"sku":"9781433127199","price":18.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433127199.jpg?v=1750944140","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/zombie-politics-and-culture-in-the-age-of-casino-capitalism-9781433127199","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}