Global Obscenities

Download Global Obscenities full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Global Obscenities ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Global Obscenities

Global Obscenities
Author :
Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 227
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780814722060
ISBN-13 : 0814722067
Rating : 4/5 (067 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Global Obscenities by : Zillah Eisenstein

Download or read book Global Obscenities written by Zillah Eisenstein and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times devotes the cover of its magazine to America's declining interest in politics and its obsession with money, finance, and the markets. Bill Gates builds a $50 million mansion while food pantries and homeless shelters overflow with the desperate. The explosive expansion of media and cyber conglomerates creates dreamworlds while the ecology of our actual world is jeopardized. Public space and public democracy withers, as is evidenced by the fact that the closest facsimile of a town square is the local Barnes and Noble. New geographies of power are defined by sex scandals, plant closings, cyberporn, sweatshop labor, information webs, and stock market schizophrenia. Global capitalism and its cyberrelations use this chaos to construct modern forms of sexual and racial exploitation. Into this world steps Zillah Eisenstein, with a book of profound despair and yet also great hope, informed by her trademark sharp analysis and her unrelenting passion for a more humane world. Exposing the purported democratic effect of new media for the global mirage it is, Eisenstein shows how transnational capital and its patriarchal obsessions threaten us all, while at the same time creating possibilities for a new democratic society.


Global Obscenities Related Books