{"product_id":"the-violence-of-organized-forgetting-thinking-beyond-americas-disimagination-machine-paperback","title":"The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenry A. Giroux\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiroux refuses to give in or give up. \u003ci\u003eThe Violence of Organized Forgetting\u003c\/i\u003e is a clarion call to imagine a different America--just, fair, and caring--and then to struggle for it.--Bill Moyers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry Giroux has accomplished an exciting, brilliant intellectual dissection of America's somnambulent voyage into anti-democratic political depravity. His analysis of the plight of America's youth is particularly heartbreaking. If we have a shred of moral fibre left in our beings, Henry Giroux sounds the trumpet to awaken it to action to restore to the nation a civic soul.--Dennis J. Kucinich, former US Congressman and Presidential candidate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiroux lays out a blistering critique of an America governed by the tenets of a market economy. . . . He cites French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman's concept of the 'disimagination machine' to describe a culture and pedagogical philosophy that short-circuits citizens' ability to think critically, leaving the generation now reaching adulthood unprepared for an 'inhospitable' world. Picking apart the current malaise of 21st-century digital disorder, Giroux describes a world in which citizenship is replaced by consumerism and the functions of engaged governance are explicitly beholden to corporations.--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a series of essays that explore the intersections of politics, popular culture, and new forms of social control in American society, Henry A. Giroux explores how state and corporate interests have coalesced to restrict civil rights, privatize what's left of public institutions, and diminish our collective capacity to participate as engaged citizens of a democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the normalization of mass surveillance, lockdown drills, and a state of constant war, to corporate bailouts paired with public austerity programs that further impoverish struggling families and communities, Giroux looks to flashpoints in current events to reveal how the forces of government and business are at work to generate a culture of mass forgetfulness, obedience and conformity. In \u003ci\u003eThe Violence of Organized Forgetting\u003c\/i\u003e, Giroux deconstructs the stories created to control us while championing the indomitable power of education, democracy, and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry A. Giroux is a world-renowned educator, author and public intellectual. He currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. \u003ci\u003eThe Toronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e has named Henry Giroux \"one of the twelve Canadians changing the way we think.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore Praise for Henry A. Giroux's \u003ci\u003eThe Violence of Organized Forgetting\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI can think of no book in the last ten years as essential as this. I can think of no other writer who has so clinically dissected the crisis of modern life and so courageously offered a possibility for real material change.--John Steppling, playwright, and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shaper, Dogmouth, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSea of Cortez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA timely study if there ever was one, \u003ci\u003eThe Violence of Organized Forgetting\u003c\/i\u003e is a milestone in the struggle to repossess the common sense expropriated by the American power elite to be redeployed in its plot to foil the popular resistance against rising social injustice and decay of political democracy.--Zygmunt Bauman, author of \u003ci\u003eDoes the Richness of the Few Benefit Us All?\u003c\/i\u003e among other works\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProphetic and eloquent, Giroux gives us, in this hard-hitting and compelling book, the dark scenario of Western crisis where ignorance has become a virtue and wealth and power the means of ruthless abuse of workers, of the minorities and of immigrants. However, he remains optimistic in his affirmation of radical humanity, determined as he is to relate himself to a fair and caring world unblemished by anti-democratic political depravity.--Shelley Walia, \u003ci\u003eFrontline\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry A. Giroux is a world renowned educator, author and public intellectual. He currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. His most recent books include: \u003ci\u003eZombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e (Peter Lang, 2011); \u003ci\u003eOn Critical Pedagogy\u003c\/i\u003e (Continuum, 2011); \u003ci\u003eEducation and the Crisis of Public Values\u003c\/i\u003e (Peter Lang 2012); \u003ci\u003eTwilight of the Social: Resurgent Publics in an Age of Disposability\u003c\/i\u003e (Paradigm Publishers, 2012); \u003ci\u003eDisposable Youth\u003c\/i\u003e (Routledge 2012); \u003ci\u003eYouth in Revolt\u003c\/i\u003e (Paradigm, 2013); \u003ci\u003eAmerica's Education Deficit and the War on Youth\u003c\/i\u003e (Monthly Review Press, 2013) A prolific writer and political commentator, he writes regularly for Truthout and serves on their board of directors. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada with his wife, Dr. Susan Searls Giroux.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 6.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 12, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53332977353011,"sku":"9780872866195","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/KzYvZWZzZUloV1AvNXo3UWZCOGEwUT09.webp?v=1778273425","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-violence-of-organized-forgetting-thinking-beyond-americas-disimagination-machine-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}