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1. How Voters Feel

   The book sets out to unearth the hidden genealogies of democracy, and particularly its most widely recognized, commonly discussed and deeply symbolic act, voting. By exploring the gaps between voting and recognition, being counted and feeling counted, having a vote and having a voice and the languor of count taking and the animation of account giving, there emerges a unique insight into how it feels to be a democratic citizen. Based on a series of interviews with a variety of voters and nonvoters, the research attempts to understand what people think they are doing when they vote; how they feel before, during and after the act of voting; how performances of voting are framed by memories, narratives and dreams; and what it means to think of oneself as a person who does (or does not) vote. Rich in theory, this is a contribution to election studies that takes culture seriously.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 02:10

2. Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age

   Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 02:32

3. Word Perfect: Literacy In The Computer Age

   This book seeks to discuss the enourmus impact computers have on how we read and write, and how we define literacy. While it is written as a critical analysis, the book also reads as a narrative of two opposing models of writing: print literacy and the emerging online literacy.

   Mathias Vetti Olaussen - 29.09.2021 - 11:20

4. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word

   This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures offering a very clear account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.

   In the course of his study, Walter J. Ong offers fascinating insights into oral genres across the globe and through time, and examines the rise of abstract philosophical and scientific thinking. He considers the impact of orality-literacy studies not only on literary criticism and theory but on our very understanding of what it is to be a human being, conscious of self and other.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 13:39

5. Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture

   Henry Jenkins"s pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though marginal and largely invisible to the general public at the time, today, media producers and advertisers, not to mention researchers and fans, take for granted the idea that the success of a media franchise depends on fan investments and participation.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 13:57

6. A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity

   The book is an attempt to loosely define a new ontology for use by social theorists — one that challenges the existing paradigm of meaningful social analyses being possible only on the level of either individuals (micro-reductionism) or "society as a whole" (macro-reductionism). Instead, the book employs Gilled Deleuze`s and Felix Guattari's theory of assemblages from A Thousand Plateaus (1980) to posit social entities on all scales (from sub-individual to transnational) that are best analysed through their components (themselves assemblages).

   According to DeLanda, following Deleuze's ideas of difference and repetition (what DeLanda calls "variable repetition"), assemblages necessarily exist in heterogeneous populations. The relationship between an assemblage and its components is complex and non-liner: assemblages are formed and affected by heterogeneous populations of lower-level assemblages, but may also act back upon these components, imposing restraints or adaptations in them.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 14:22

7. The Postcolonial Unconscious

   The Postcolonial Unconscious is a major attempt to reconstruct the whole field of postcolonial studies. In this magisterial and, at times, polemical study, Neil Lazarus argues that the key critical concepts that form the very foundation of the field need to be re-assessed and questioned. Drawing on a vast range of literary sources, Lazarus investigates works and authors from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the Arab world, South, Southeast and East Asia, to reconsider them from a postcolonial perspective. Alongside this, he offers bold new readings of some of the most influential figures in the field: Fredric Jameson, Edward Said and Frantz Fanon. A tour de force of postcolonial studies, this book will set the agenda for the future, probing how the field has come to develop in the directions it has and why and how it can grow further.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 15:14

8. Citizenship and immigration in PostWar Britain: The Institutional Origins of a Multicultural Nation

   In this contentious and ground-breaking study, Randall Hansen draws on extensive archival research to provide a new account of the transformation of the UK into a multicultural society through an analysis of the evolution of immigration and citizenship policy since 1945. Against the prevailing
   academic orthodoxy, he argues that British immigration policy was not racist but both rational and liberal.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 15:45

9. The Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room: Metaphors of Paradox in Crime Fiction and Film

   Traditional detective fiction celebrates the victory of order and reason over the senseless violence of crime. Yet in spite of its apparent valorization of rationality, the detective genre has been associated from its inception with three paradoxical motifs - the double, the labyrinth and the locked room. Rational thought relies on binary oppositions, such as chaos and order, appearance and reality or truth and falsehood. Paradoxes subvert such customary distinctions, logically proving as true what we experientially know to be false.
   The present book explores detective and crime-mystery fiction and film from the perspective of their entrenched metaphors of paradox. This new and intriguing angle yields fresh insights into a genre that has become one of the hallmarks of postmodernism.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 16:28

10. Neo-Baroque aesthetics and contemporary entertainment

    The artists of the seventeenth-century baroque period used spectacle to delight and astonish; contemporary entertainment media, according to Angela Ndalianis, are imbued with a neo-baroque aesthetic that is similarly spectacular. In Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment, she situates today's film, computer games, comic books, and theme-park attractions within an aesthetic-historical context and uses the baroque as a framework to enrich our understanding of contemporary entertainment media.

    Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 17:20

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