The Violence of Organized Forgetting. Henry A. Giroux

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      Open Media Series | City Lights Books

      Copyright © 2014 by Henry A. Giroux

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      ISBN: 9780872866195

      Open Media Series editor: Greg Ruggiero

      Cover design by John Yates at Stealworks.com

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Giroux, Henry A.

      The violence of organized forgetting : thinking beyond America’s disimagination machine / Henry A. Giroux.

      pages cm. — (City lights open media)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-0-87286-619-5 (paperback)

      1. Political culture—United States. 2. Corporate power—United States. 3. Mass media—Political aspects—United States. 4. Power (Social sciences)—United States. 5. Social values—Political aspects—United States. 6. Collective memory—Political aspects—United States. I. Title.

      JK1726.G57 2014

      306.20973—dc23

      2014006179

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      To Susan, again and again To Rob, Ray, and Reno, my working-class comrades

      PRAISE FOR HENRY A. GIROUX

      “Giroux 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.”

       — Publishers Weekly

      “In terms that are both eloquent and prophetic, Henry Giroux succeeds in raising the ante in the current debate about America’s madness. His concept of disimagination captures the emotional as well as the material dimensions of the Western crisis. Beyond economic distress, Giroux paints a far more comprehensive portrait of the alarming descent into violence that afflicts our societies. Yet, as is Giroux’s wont, he does not leave us hanging. The final section of the book is a ringing affirmation of hope and struggle for the revival of the radical imagination.”

      —Stanley Aronowitz, author of Taking it Big: C.Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals

      “One of the twelve Canadians changing the way we think.”

       —Toronto Star

      “Once again Henry Giroux shows why he is one of the most important public intellectuals in the world today . . . he positively reinforces his commitment to a critical pedagogy that refuses to accept the inevitability of the abuses of power that appear right before our eyes.”

      —Brad Evans, founder/director, Histories of Violence Project, University of Bristol

      “Henry Giroux is one of our most important public intellectuals. Though he vividly describes the privatization of compassion, the rapid decline of higher education’s commitment to democracy and shared notions of the public good, the force of Giroux’s writings shows us we are not alone and there is power in his arguments of resistance.”

      —David H. Price, professor of anthropology, St. Martin’s University

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