Virality Of Evil

Author : Divya Dwivedi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538164728
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virality of Evil written by Divya Dwivedi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly two years on, the experiences and trajectories of the pandemic across the world have confirmed that it has been in the grasp of a systemic malaise, ‘le mal’. Everywhere evil is as a viral condition: in the etymological sense of a poison and in the media-theoretical sense, in its uncontrollable spread, of a contagion. It is time to revaluate the concept of evil, raising it as perhaps the only term through which philosophy can reflect on the pandemic. This collection contains responses from moral and political philosophy, epistemology, and ontology, literary studies, theology and psychoanalysis. It is a collective meditation which takes a plural approach to the sufferings of different parts of the world, deploying a stance dedicated to place and specificity.Their distinct contributions arise from multiple traditions, with voices from within and beyond the “western” canon. The eighteen mediations decline the temptation to isolate the pandemic as a simple great event, equal across the globe that it continues to devastate. Instead, like the witches of Macbeth, they come together as a gathering to speak of this state of evil, for it is our own condition. They explore the hesitating question, which yet confesses a terrifying suspicion: is it possible to speak of evil in the time of the pandemic?

Author : Tony D. Sampson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816670056
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virality written by Tony D. Sampson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking work, Tony D. Sampson presents a contagion theory fit for the age of networks. Unlike memes and microbial contagions, Virality does not restrict itself to biological analogies and medical metaphors. It instead points toward a theory of contagious assemblages, events, and affects. For Sampson, contagion is not necessarily a positive or negative force of encounter; it is how society comes together and relates. Sampson argues that a biological knowledge of contagion has been universally distributed by way of the rhetoric of fear used in the antivirus industry and other popular discourses surrounding network culture. This awareness is also detectable in concerns over too much connectivity, such as problems of global financial crisis and terrorism. Sampson's "virality" is as established as that of the biological meme and microbe but is not understood through representational thinking expressed in metaphors and analogies. Rather, Sampson interprets contagion theory through the social relationalities first established in Gabriel Tarde's microsociology and subsequently recognized in Gilles Deleuze's ontological worldview. According to Sampson, the reliance on representational thinking to explain the social behavior of networking--including that engaged in by nonhumans such as computers--allows language to overcategorize and limit analysis by imposing identities, oppositions, and resemblances on contagious phenomena. It is the power of these categories that impinges on social and cultural domains. Assemblage theory, on the other hand, is all about relationality and encounter, helping us to understand the viral as a positively sociological event, building from the molecular outward, long before it becomes biological.

Author : Josefin Graef
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000534995
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Far-right Terrorism written by Josefin Graef and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Far-right Terrorism explores far-right terrorism as an object of the narrative imagination in contemporary Western Europe. Western European societies are generally reluctant to think of far-right and racist violence as terrorism, but the reasons for this remain little understood. This book focuses on the extraordinarily complex case of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) in Germany, and high-profile instances of racist violence in Sweden and Norway. The author analyses the narratives surrounding far-right and racist violence, drawing on a broad range of empirical sources. Her account attributes the limits of imagining violence as far-right terrorism to elite practices of narrative control that maintain positive images of the liberal-democratic order in counterpoint to its two constitutive "others" – the far-right and racialised minorities. Situated broadly within the scholarly tradition of critical terrorism studies, the book breaks new ground in research on far-right terrorism by following its narrative traces across time, public spaces of contestation, and national borders. It also draws on material and findings originally written in German, Swedish, and Norwegian, which were previously not available in English. This much-needed volume will be of particular interest to students and researchers of terrorism and political violence, right-wing extremism, European politics, and communication studies.

Author : Waleed Aly
Publisher : Quarterly Essay
ISBN 13 : 1743822545
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncivil Wars written by Waleed Aly and published by Quarterly Essay. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is public debate increasingly polarised – and what can we do about it? Is our democracy corroding? In this original, eloquent essay, Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens explore the ethics and politics of public debate - and the threat it now faces. In a healthy society we need the capacity to disagree. Yet Aly and Stephens note a growing tendency to disdain and dismiss opponents, to treat them with contempt. This toxic partisanship has been imported from the United States, where it has been a temptation for both left and right. Aly and Stephens discuss some telling examples, analyse the role of the media, and look back to heroes of democracy who found a better way forward. Arguing that democracy cannot survive contempt, they draw on philosophy, literature and history to make an urgent case about the present. 'So what do we owe those with whom we might profoundly, even radically, disagree? In our time, the answer increasingly seems to be: Nothing. Absolutely nothing. We've come to regard our opponents as not much more than obstructions in the road, impediments standing between us and our desired end. We have grown disinclined to consider what it might mean to go on together meaningfully as partners within a shared democratic project. To put it bluntly, we see no future with our political opponents because we feel we have nothing to learn from them.' Waleed Aly & Scott Stephens, Uncivil Wars  This issue also contains correspondence discussing Quarterly Essay 86, Sleepwalk to War, from Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd, Michael J. Green, Kishore Mahbubani, Sam Roggeveen, Peter Varghese, Rory Medcalf, Emma Shortis, Dennis Altman, Hugh White

Author : Divya Dwivedi
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1805261746
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution written by Divya Dwivedi and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their brave and challenging book, grounded in political science and the Continental philosophical tradition, Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan engage with the resurgence of upper-caste supremacism in India and its justification via the legacy of ‘the Aryan doctrine’ and Hindu nationalism. Their essays were written from 2016 to 2023, when India’s democratic institutions were subverted and caste-based oppression overflowed into public space—killing and menacing the lower castes of all religions, minorities, women, students and the media. This book chronicles the ascending oppression of democracy in India, a veritable biography of authoritarianism. Dwivedi and Mohan reject simplistic accounts of India’s politics as the opposition between ‘Hindu majoritarian nationalism’ and ‘the religious minorities’, or between ‘Hindu fundamentalism’ and ‘religious pluralism’. They propose instead a genuinely transformative account of Indian politics, grounded in political philosophy and in the lower- caste majority position. What does revolution mean where the constitutional promise of equality is betrayed daily by the millennia- old inequality of caste? What does politics mean where religion serves as the justification for descent- based enslavement and indignity? Revolution has only one sense in India, the annihilation of caste; and ‘citizen’ has only one sense, the people of the state shedding caste and racism.

Author : Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350329053
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Bernard Stiegler written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What I love, and those whom I love, you, that is to say us in so far as we are capable of forming a we, all this I love, and I love them, and I love you infinitely" (Bernard Steigler April 1952- August 2020). When Bernard Stiegler writes "I love you" in the quote above, he openly provokes us to question or experience the meaning or contact of these words. He also invites us to question the relationship between a thinker's life and their thought. For Stiegler, they were inextricable. His life was one that focused on friendship but not friendships at a purely social level but ones that produced philosophy, politics, and existential truths. Bringing together scholars who knew Stiegler, including Shaj Mohan, Achille Mbembe, Divya Dwivedi, Peter Szendy, and Emily Apter, this volume provides an original - and personal - insight into his life and philosophy. Each piece gives a sense of the wide range of Stiegler's work and how it affected the praxis of the philosopher in different parts of the world.

Author : Anne Duprat
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040021743
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Figures of Chance II written by Anne Duprat and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figures of Chance II: Chance in Theory and Practice proposes a multidisciplinary analysis of cultural phenomena related to notions of chance and contingency. Alongside its transhistorical companion volume (Figures of Chance I), it considers how the projective and predictive capacity of societies is shaped by representations and cultural models of a reality that is understood, by varying degrees, to be contingent, unpredictable, or chaotic. This volume reevaluates the role played by figurative representations of chance in contemporary discourses about chance and contingency. Written by seven interdisciplinary teams, and encompassing philosophy, literature, history of science, sociology, mathematics, cognitive science, information science, and art history, this text puts scientific conceptions of chance into dialogue with their contemporary literary and artistic representations. It thus brings out the central role played by art in the human perception of chance, and in our methods for projecting the future, in order to better understand contemporary human attitudes in the face of risk.

Author : Deb Pines
Publisher : Author Deb Pines
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evil for Evil written by Deb Pines and published by Author Deb Pines. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a true-crime podcaster is killed at a Chautauqua book club meeting, reporter and relentless snoop Mimi Goldman is certain of just one thing—the book club members can't be judged by their covers! The tenth book in the Mimi Goldman Chautauqua Mystery series is "another enjoyable beach read from an author who knows her turf." (Kirkus Reviews)

Author : Bella Novak
Publisher : Bella Novak
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes of Evil written by Bella Novak and published by Bella Novak. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the charming façades of America's idyllic small towns lie secrets that have been buried deep... until now. In her gripping new book, acclaimed true crime author Bella Novak delves into the darkest corners of small-town America, unveiling a series of harrowing tales where innocence meets malevolence, and where the quiet streets echo with the chilling whispers of the unknown. Why did Josie, the beloved owner of Elmwood's famous diner, vanish on a cold winter night, leaving her legendary blueberry pie mid-slice? What truth lurks behind the unlit beacon of Port Breville's lighthouse, and the sudden disappearance of its keeper, Thomas Gallagher? And as the chapters unfold, what link binds these mysterious occurrences with older, eerily similar tales from the annals of America's past? Novak's meticulous research and riveting narrative will take you on a haunting journey, weaving through a complex web of interviews, first-hand accounts, and chilling speculations. Her exploration into the psychology of small-town serial killers is both enlightening and terrifying, revealing the intricate minds that lurk behind seemingly ordinary faces. Echoes of Evil is more than just a collection of stories—it's a stark reminder of the ever-present shadows that can fall upon even the most serene of landscapes. This book serves as both a testament to the resilience of small-town communities and a cautionary tale urging eternal vigilance. Do you dare to listen to the echoes? Dive into the pages of Bella Novak's masterpiece, and uncover the mysteries that have haunted these towns for decades. A must-read for fans of true crime. Prepare for a journey that will leave you questioning every shadow and every unfamiliar face in your own hometown.

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859842416
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paroxysm written by Jean Baudrillard and published by Verso. This book was released on 1998-12-17 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of communism, the Gulf War, Rwanda and the New World Order, the nature of war, Holocaust denial, and virtual reality are among the many topics covered by Baudrillard, "a sharp-shooting, lone-ranger from the post-Marxist left" ("New York Times").