Power And Paranoia

Author : Jan-Willem van Prooijen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139952447
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power, Politics, and Paranoia written by Jan-Willem van Prooijen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful societal leaders - such as politicians and Chief Executives - are frequently met with substantial distrust by the public. But why are people so suspicious of their leaders? One possibility is that 'power corrupts', and therefore people are right in their reservations. Indeed, there are numerous examples of unethical leadership, even at the highest level, as the Watergate and Enron scandals clearly illustrate. Another possibility is that people are unjustifiably paranoid, as underscored by some of the rather far-fetched conspiracy theories that are endorsed by a surprisingly large portion of citizens. Are societal power holders more likely than the average citizen to display unethical behaviour? How do people generally think and feel about politicians? How do paranoia and conspiracy beliefs about societal power holders originate? In this book, prominent scholars address these intriguing questions and illuminate the many facets of the relations between power, politics and paranoia.

Author : Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262533065
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Control and Freedom written by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom and democracy. How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she says, stem from our reduction of political problems into technological ones. Drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and analyzing such phenomena as Webcams and face-recognition technology, Chun argues that the relationship between control and freedom in networked contact is experienced and negotiated through sexuality and race. She traces the desire for cyberspace to cyberpunk fiction and maps the transformation of public/private into open/closed. Analyzing "pornocracy," she contends that it was through cyberporn and the government's attempts to regulate it that the Internet became a marketplace of ideas and commodities. Chun describes the way Internet promoters conflated technological empowerment with racial empowerment and, through close examinations of William Gibson's Neuromancer and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, she analyzes the management of interactivity in narratives of cyberspace. The Internet's potential for democracy stems not from illusory promises of individual empowerment, Chun argues, but rather from the ways in which it exposes us to others (and to other machines) in ways we cannot control. Using fiber optic networks—light coursing through glass tubes—as metaphor and reality, Control and Freedom engages the rich philosophical tradition of light as a figure for knowledge, clarification, surveillance, and discipline, in order to argue that fiber-optic networks physically instantiate, and thus shatter, enlightenment.

Author : Dana Polan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231888448
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power and Paranoia written by Dana Polan and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A post-structural analysis of Hollywood films from the 1940s, with a particular focus on those meant to inspire the Allied forces during World War II.

Author : J. R. Johansson
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0738740969
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paranoia written by J. R. Johansson and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-06-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parker Chipp is learning to master his abilities as a Watcher. But as he trains, his alter ego does everything it can to destroy his life. Even as it spins him out of control, Parker must face a worse threat. The Takers are forcing his chemist father to create an immortality pill, and Parker must enter their realm to rescue him.

Author : Richard Hofstadter
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307388441
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paranoid Style in American Politics written by Richard Hofstadter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence — and derail — the larger agendas of a political party. He investigates the politics of the irrational, shedding light on how the behavior of individuals can seem out of proportion with actual political issues, and how such behavior impacts larger groups. With such other classic essays as “Free Silver and the Mind of 'Coin' Harvey” and “What Happened to the Antitrust Movement?, ” The Paranoid Style in American Politics remains both a seminal text of political history and a vital analysis of the ways in which political groups function in the United States.

Author : Luigi Zoja
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317202392
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paranoia written by Luigi Zoja and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luigi Zoja presents an insightful analysis of the use and misuse of paranoia throughout history and in contemporary society. Zoja combines history with depth psychology, contemporary politics and tragic literature, resulting in a clear and balanced analysis presented with rare clarity. The devastating impact of paranoia on societies is explored in detail. Focusing on the contagious aspects of paranoia and its infectious, self-replicating dynamics, Zoja takes such diverse examples as Ajax and George W. Bush, Cain and the American Holocaust, Hitler, Stalin and Othello to illustrate his argument. He reconstructs the emblematic arguments that paranoia has promoted in Western history and examines how the power of the modern media and mass communication has affected how it spreads. Paranoia clearly examines how leaders lose control of their influence, how the collective unconscious acquires an autonomous life and how seductive its effects can be – more so than any political, religious or ideological discourse. This gripping study will be essential reading for depth and analytical psychologists, and academics and students of history, cultural studies, psychology, classical studies, literary studies, anthropology and sociology.

Author : Martin Kantor
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Paranoia written by Martin Kantor and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2008-07-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only guide currently available on paranoia, this work offers a method for understanding, coping with, and treating this widespread and neglected condition, which can result in serious social consequences from isolation to violence in schools and the workplace.

Author : Robert S.. Robins
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300070279
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Paranoia written by Robert S.. Robins and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert S. Robins and Jerrold M. Post, M.D., experts in political psychology, document and interpret the malign power of paranoia in a variety of contexts - in political movements like McCarthyism; in organizations like the John Birch Society; in leaders like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Jim Jones, and David Koresh; and among extreme groups that commit violence in the name of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Indeed, Robins and Post show that the paranoid dynamic has been aggressively present in every social disaster of this century. Robins and Post describe the paranoid personality, explain why paranoia is part of human evolutionary history, and examine the conditions that must exist before the message of the paranoid takes root in a vulnerable population, leading to mass movements and genocidal violence.

Author : Christopher J. Fettweis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107041104
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pathologies of Power written by Christopher J. Fettweis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how deeply held beliefs guide American foreign policy and identifies the foundations of those beliefs, explaining how they have inspired poor strategic decisions in Washington.

Author : Mikael Gravers
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780700709809
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nationalism as Political Paranoia in Burma written by Mikael Gravers and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the complex relationship between nationalism, violence and Buddhism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Burma, bringing us to present-day Burma and the struggle by Aung San Suu Kyi for a new Burmese identity.