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"This collection responds to the need for theoretically informed and methodologically grounded empirical research on the global transformations in multimodal human communication and social practices in light of recent widespread change. The volume highlights the need to expand on the established approaches--Social Semiotics, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, and Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis--by complementing them with other analytical frameworks to better understand the impact of unprecedented global challenges, such as Covid-19, on the way humans communicate and make use of meaning-making resources. Bringing together established and emergent scholars from a variety of geographical, cultural, and linguistic contexts, the collection presents studies from both the Global North and Global South, including South Africa, Latin America, Brazil, and the Caribbean, to showcase new perspectives in multimodality research. This innovative book will be of interest to students and scholars in multimodality, social semiotics, and discourse analysis"--

"Both pro- and anticapitalists, despite the ferocity of their disagreements, tend to concur that selfishness is essential to capitalism. In Infinite Greed, Adrian Johnston argues that this consensus is mistaken. Utilizing a theoretical synthesis of Marxism and psychoanalysis, Johnston reveals how the relentless pursuit of profits is not really about pandering to the acquisitiveness of single persons. Instead, capitalism's strange "infinite greed" demands that individuals sacrifice their pleasures, wellbeing, and even themselves so as to service inhuman capital itself. All capitalist subjects are compelled to obey capital's cold imperative to accumulate ever more of it in perpetuity and without limits-and also without regard for the consequences of this accumulation for everyone and everything else. Considering such contemporary crises as spiraling wealth inequality, leaving a steadily growing mass of humanity in wretched penury, as well as the profit-driven prospect of a looming ecological apocalypse, selfishness, as the rational self-interest of the numerical majority of individual persons, would dictate putting a stop to capitalism. Infinite Greed is distinctive in a number of respects. Whereas both the classical Freudian Marxism associated with the Frankfurt School as well as more recent Lacanian Marxisms, notably Slavoj Žižek's, and nonclassical European Marxisms such as those of Antonio Gramsci and Ernst Bloch, focus on such extra-economic dimensions as ideologies and cultural phenomena, this book pairs Freudian and Lacanian concepts with the economic heart of Marx's historical materialism. In particular, by bringing together the Marxian critique of political economy with psychoanalytic metapsychology, Adrian Johnston brings to light the complex intertwining of political and libidinal economies that keep us invested and complicit in perpetuating capitalism and its ills. Until today's leftists recenter their theory and practice on the largely and unwisely neglected terrain of the economy--on class struggle and related determinants of our politics and culture--our four-plus decades of political setbacks and defeats will continue unabated."

Intro -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Campaigners -- Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry - The 35's -- Helen Bamber OBE -- Ursula Owen -- 2. Agony Aunts -- Marjorie Proops OBE -- Clare Rayner OBE -- 3. Politicians -- Bertha Sokoloff -- Shirley Porter -- Edwina Currie -- Dame Margaret Hodge DBE -- Dame Louise Ellman DBE -- Luciana Berger -- Ruth Smeeth, Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent -- 4. Media -- Eve Pollard OBE -- Dame Esther Rantzen DBE -- Kay Mellor OBE -- Emily Maitlis -- Emma Barnett -- Nicola Mendelsohn CBE -- 5. Lawyers -- Dame Rose Heilbron DBE -- Myrella Cohen KC -- 6. Doctors -- Elsie Landau -- Hannah Billig MBE -- Miriam Stoppard OBE -- 7. Scientists -- Hertha Ayrton -- Rosalind Franklin -- Nina Wederburn -- Professor Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE -- 8. Religious Figures/Leaders -- Background - Lily Montagu CBE -- Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE -- Rabbi Elizabeth Tikva Sarah -- Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz -- Conclusion -- Bibliography and Sources -- Endnotes -- Index.

Introduction -- The Malay administrative system on the eve of British rule -- The Pangkor Agreement and the start of British residential system -- The years of divided affiliations (1930-c.1942) -- The post-war years and the consociational logic -- May 1969 and the events leading to it.

"Guided by the Four Laws of Biotics, the book details how technological humanity should interact with the biosphere and each other in accordance with Darwinian principles, which illuminate a middle ground between unacceptable apocalypse or unattainable utopia, with two hopeful options: alter our behavior now at great expense based on Darwinian principles and extend current civilization, or fail to respond, fall and rebuild in accordance with those same principles"--

"This book explores how tools of the Digital Age might be mobilized to solve our most pressing environmental challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss. It argues that digital technology might accelerate environmental sustainability and that engaging with environmental issues may transform Big Tech for the better, if the sector successfully addresses spiraling energy use, pollution, privacy and surveillance issues"--

"Crowded Out examines how charitable crowdfunding so quickly overtook public life, where it is taking us, and who gets left behind by this new platformed economy. While crowdfunding has become ubiquitous in our lives, it is largely misunderstood by the public: rather than a friendly free market "powered by the kindness" of strangers, crowdfunding is powerfully reinforcing inequalities and changing the way Americans think about, and access, health care. Drawing on extensive research and rich storytelling, Crowded Out demonstrates how crowdfunding for health is fueled by, and further reinforces, financial and moral "toxicities" in market-based health systems"--