Dear Colleagues,
I've put together a proposal for a new book on propaganda and am looking
for a critical chapter on PR, spin, and environmental policy (or climate
change). Anybody interested? If so, please send me e-copy of an article
or two that you've done in this subject area, together with a short (100
word bio) and abstract (150 words).
The aim of the book is an explanation of how the informational economy
has fostered a "regime of propaganda" that reflects the accelerated
neoliberal ambitions and technological means for circulating images,
ideas, and doctrines in the political, commercial, and cultural spheres.
This book would discuss not only conventional forms of propaganda
(instrumental forms of persuasion in support of empowered interests) in
singular cases but also the *systemic* bases of propaganda, which derive
from the shift to a more symbolic economy (rooted in promotional
activities). I believe no book that takes this approach has yet been
produced.
Partial list of contributors:
Aeron Davis
Tim Dwyer
Robert Jensen
Sue Jansen
Douglas Kellner
Patricia Mazepa
Matt McAllister
Robert McChesney
Graham Murdock
Massimo Ragnedda
Nancy Snow
Inger Stole
Gerry Sussman
Dominic Wring
Please let me know your interest as soon as possible.
All the best,
Gerry Sussman
The Propaganda Society:
Neoliberalism and the Regime of Public Persuasion
Gerald Sussman, Editor
Abstract of the book:
/The Propaganda Society/ is a study of Western commercial and
political uses of propaganda in the contemporary era, a period marked
by a shift from manufacturing as the center of production to that of
marketing, advertising, public relations, and other forms of
promotional enterprise. Propaganda is no longer simply a form of
persuasion organized for discrete objectives at specific times and
places. Rather, it has become systemically-based within the whole
economy and the entire political culture. A group of specialists on
propaganda from different parts of the "post-industrial" world explore
how "digital capitalism" has set in motion a promotionally-oriented
economy, politics, foreign policy, and culture. Each chapter draws on
a different aspect of the promotional economy/culture.
The book starts with an introduction to how the power elites designed
a globally networked neoliberal economic order, augmented by digital
communication, to speed up the production and circulation of
commodities, bring a command and control military system to bear on
less integrated states, impose deeper levels of surveillance on
populations as citizens and consumers, and accelerate consumerism
through multimedia forms of professional promotional activities.
--
Gerry Sussman
Professor
Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies & Planning
PO Box 751
Portland State University
Portland, OR 97207
Phone: (503) 725-5176
Fax: (503) 725-8770
Email: [log in to unmask]
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