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Cover -- Praise for Too Much Magic -- Too Much Magic -- Also by James Howard Kunstler -- Title Page -- Copyright © 2012 by James Howard Kunstler -- Dedication -- Contents -- Epigraph -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Coda: A Systematic Misunderstanding of Reality

Über Pornographie wird gerade vor dem Hintergrund ihrer popkulturellen Normalisierung heftig gestritten. Zugleich mangelt es aber bislang an einer gesellschaftstheoretischen Durchdringung des Phänomens der zeitgenössischen Hardcore-Pornographie. Anstatt fruchtlose moralische Debatten fortzuspinnen, stellt Sven Lewandowski die Frage nach dem Verhältnis der modernen Gesellschaft zu 'ihrer' Pornographie auf neue Weise. Aus soziologischen, psychoanalytischen und systemtheoretischen Perspektiven zeigt er, dass Pornographie von latenten Bedeutungsgehalten lebt und den Wandel des Sexuellen sowohl reflektiert als auch vorantreibt.

Introduction -- Fame -- The phenom -- Icons -- A viral childhood -- Where the domesticated things are -- A viral dance -- There's music in the machine -- Lights, politics, youtube -- Let's get physical -- Media, media on the wall -- The identity game -- Other genres -- The short -- The mirror -- The morph -- The witness -- The word -- The experiment

In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture documents how Americans grew accustomed to understanding politics, current events, and popular culture through comedy that is simultaneously critical, commercial, and funny. Along with the rapid growth of television in the 1950s, an explosion of satire and parody took place across a wide field of American culture--in magazines, comic books, film, comedy albums, and on television itself. Taken together, these case studies don't just analyze and theorize the production and consumption of parody and television, but force us to revisit and revise our notions of postwar 'consensus' culture as well"--Provided by publisher

One of the principal goals of antipoverty efforts should be to improve the absolute living standards of the least well-off. This book aims to enhance our understanding of how to do that, drawing on the experiences of twenty affluent countries since the 1970s.

Globalization and violence / Christoph Lindner -- Architecture and economies of violence : Sao Paulo as case study / Richard J. Williams -- Drugs and assassins in the city of flows / Geoffrey Kantaris -- Temporary discomfort : Jules Spinatsch's documentation of global summits / Hugh Campbell -- American military imaginaries and Iraqi cities : the visual economies of globalizing war / Derek Gregory -- Globalization and the remembrance of violence : visual culture, space, and time in Berlin / Simon Ward -- Trash aesthetics : New York, globalization, and garbage / Christoph Lindner -- Global Beijing : the world is a violent place / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald -- The poetics of scale in urban photography / Shirley Jordan -- Globalization and cultural capital : symbolic violence in recent filmic images of Paris / Ruth Cruickshank -- Conspiracy, surveillance, and the spatial turn in the Bourne trilogy / Sue Harris.