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ISBN: 9780226713304 9780226713441 9780226713588 022671330X 022671344X 022671358X Year: 2020 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. The University of Chicago Press
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"When Trump became president, much of the country was repelled by what they saw as the vulgar spectacle of his ascent, the perversion of the highest office in the land. In his bold, groundbreaking book Political Perversion, rhetorician Joshua Gunn argues that this "mean-spirited turn" in American politics (of which Trump is the paragon) is best understood as a structural perversion enhanced primarily by the speed of communication technologies. Drawing on insights from critical theory, media ecology, and psychoanalysis, Gunn argues that perverse rhetorics dominate not only the political sphere but also our daily interactions with others, in person and online. From sexting to campaign rhetoric, Gunn shows how technology has changed our ways of relating (and not relating) to others and has engendered infantile and sadistic forms of provocation and enjoyment. In this book, Trump is only the tip of a sinister, rapidly growing iceberg, one to which we ourselves unwittingly contribute on a daily basis"--
ISBN: 081738541X 9780817385415 0817314660 0817356568 9780817356569 9780817314668 Year: 2005 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Ala. University of Alabama Press
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A broadly interdisciplinary study of the pervasive secrecy in America cultural, political, and religious discourse. The occult has traditionally been understood as the study of secrets of the practice of mysticism or magic. This book broadens our understanding of the occult by treating it as a rhetorical phenomenon tied to language and symbols and more central to American culture than is commonly assumed. Joshua Gunn approaches the occult as an idiom, examining the ways in which acts of textual criticism and interpretation are occultic in nature, as evident in prac
Language and languages. --- Mass media. --- Mass media -- History -- 20th century. --- Occultism -- History -- 20th century. --- Occultism - Social aspects. --- Popular culture - History - 20th century. --- Popular culture -- History -- 20th century. --- Occultism --- Mass media --- Popular culture --- Social Sciences --- Parapsychology & Occult Sciences --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Art, Black (Magic) --- Arts, Black (Magic) --- Black art (Magic) --- Black arts (Magic) --- Occult, The --- Occult sciences --- Supernatural --- New Age movement --- Parapsychology --- History
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