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La aparición del teléfono, el uso de la radio y los periódicos, hasta la expansión de los televisores, el auge de la cultura de masas, el surgimiento de internet o el empleo de los smartphones, las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación han ido desempeñando, con el paso del tiempo, un papel más central en nuestras vidas. Con la promesa de que el acceso a la información, la capacidad de comunicación instantánea y un mundo global, parecía que la transformación social y la emancipación humana estaban a nuestro alcance, pero, en realidad, los flujos de la información también han perpetuado el statu quo y fortalecido al capitalismo. Cómo analizar la comunicación y la cultura desde la perspectiva de la lucha de clases?Armand Mattelart, en esta obra que recoge las introducciones que elaboró para los dos volúmenes de Communication and Class Struggle, se propone un objetivo fundamental: forjar las bases epistemológicas, teóricas y conceptuales de un abordaje marxista de la génesis y la función d

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Video surveillance, public records, fingerprints, hidden microphones, RFID chips: in contemporary societies the intrusive techniques of surveillance used in daily life have increased dramatically. The “war against terror” has only exacerbated this trend, creating a world that is closer than one might have imagined to that envisaged by George Orwell in 1984. How have we reached this situation? Why have democratic societies accepted that their rights and freedoms should be taken away, a little at a time, by increasingly sophisticated mechanisms of surveillance? From the anthropometry of the 19th Century to the Patriot Act, through an analysis of military theory and the Echelon Project, Armand Mattelart constructs a genealogy of this new power of control and examines its globalising dynamic. This book provides an essential wake-up call at a time when democratic societies are becoming less and less vigilant against the dangers of proliferating systems of surveillance.

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Armand Mattelart es uno de los mayores pensadores en el campo de los estudios de la comunicación y de la cultura; y en consecuencia ha llegado a ser imprescindible y reconocido en todo el mundo. [...] A lo largo de esta entrevista, Armand Mattelart vuelve sucesivamente a las premisas epistemológicas de su aproximación al campo de la comunicación. Explica su elección entre las diferentes teorías. Explicita algunos aspectos que son poco conocidos de su trabajo. En cierto modo, cada uno de los capítulos constituye un espacio-tiempo que revela, por una lado, las raíces de su conciencia política, el estado de las relaciones de fuerza a nivel internacional, así como los movimientos de ideas en acción, y por otro, la materialidad de su pensamiento y la evolución del campo de estudios interdisciplinares sobre la cultura y la comunicación

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A tour of the multiple usages and systems that each historic period puts forth in the name of communication. This genealogy maps the many means by which humans interact - from cataloguing others, to asserting power over them, to working together with them to build new forms of community. Included are topics such as the elaboration of warfare as a logistic; the rise of professional societies of propaganda and national propagation; the history of universal expositions and world fairs; the birth of documentary and film out of physiological investigations in the 19th century; the development of press and the popular novel; and the origins of American social science. The history runs from the circuits of exchange to the circulation of goods, people and messages, from the construction of railroads to the emergence of long-distance communication. The author brings a clarifying perspective to the ideologies and theories that accompany these transformations.

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First published in 1971, How to Read Donald Duck shocked readers by revealing how capitalist ideology operates in our most beloved cartoons. Having survived bonfires, impounding and being dumped into the ocean by the Chilean army, this controversial book is once again back on our shelves. Written and published during the blossoming of Salvador Allende's revolutionary socialism, the book examines how Disney comics not only reflect capitalist ideology, but are active agents working in this ideology's favour. Focusing on the hapless mice and ducks of Disney, curiously parentless, marginalised and always short of cash, Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart expose how these characters established hegemonic ideas about capital, race, gender and the relationship between developed countries and the Third World. A devastating indictment of a media giant, a document of twentieth-century political upheaval, and a reminder of the dark undercurrent of pop culture, How to Read Donald Duck is once again available, together with a new introduction by Ariel Dorfman.

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First published in 1971, How to Read Donald Duck shocked readers by revealing how capitalist ideology operates in our most beloved cartoons. Having survived bonfires, impounding and being dumped into the ocean by the Chilean army, this controversial book is once again back on our shelves. Written and published during the blossoming of Salvador Allende's revolutionary socialism, the book examines how Disney comics not only reflect capitalist ideology, but are active agents working in this ideology's favour. Focusing on the hapless mice and ducks of Disney, curiously parentless, marginalised and always short of cash, Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart expose how these characters established hegemonic ideas about capital, race, gender and the relationship between developed countries and the Third World. A devastating indictment of a media giant, a document of twentieth-century political upheaval, and a reminder of the dark undercurrent of pop culture, How to Read Donald Duck is once again available, together with a new introduction by Ariel Dorfman.

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