Do words sometimes betray you, leaving you a stranger in your own land? Words can be brutal, frustrating, and exhausting. Consider terrorism, civilization, and even peace, family, and security. Words can also be bridges to new forms of experience and openings for alliance. This book explores the political trajectories of words through pictures, excerpts, stories and exegesis about the politics of the present global situation. Scholars, artists, activists and poets have joined forces to offer alternative etymologies, ...
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Do words sometimes betray you, leaving you a stranger in your own land? Words can be brutal, frustrating, and exhausting. Consider terrorism, civilization, and even peace, family, and security. Words can also be bridges to new forms of experience and openings for alliance. This book explores the political trajectories of words through pictures, excerpts, stories and exegesis about the politics of the present global situation. Scholars, artists, activists and poets have joined forces to offer alternative etymologies, genealogies, fragments of everyday life, and glimpses of social history as a form of defence and defiance in an escalating war on words. - from the introduction. Words are provided by a stellar cast, including Lain Boal, Angela Davis, Mike Davis, Jonathan Fox, Lisbeth Haas, Sven Lindquist, Helene Moglen, Goenawan Mohamad, Adrienne Rich, Alix Kates Shulman, Yasushi Uchiyamada and dozens more.
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No Jacket. Santa Cruz. 2004. New Pacific Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0971254605. 185 pages. paperback. keywords: Politics. DESCRIPTION-SHOCK AND AWE is an abecedarian effort to reclaim language that has been debased in the politics of the war on terror. Over 70 international scholars, artists and poets explore the political meaning of words through essays, photographs, poems and found documents. Sometimes funny, sometimes frightening, consistently informative and provocative. Contributors include: Wendy Brown, Angela Davis, Mike Davis, Jonathan Fox, Donna Haraway, Sven Lindqvist, Carole Simmons Oles, Mary Louise Pratt, Vincent Rafael, Adrienne Rich, Renato Rosaldo, Marilyn Strathern, Kath Weston. inventory #48079.
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