Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism: Second Edition (Paperback)

Acknowledgments ? Preface: Dystopian Nightmares in the Age of Savage Politics ? Introduction: Zombie Politics, Democracy, and the Threat of Authoritarianism ? Zombie Politics and Other Late Modern Monstrosities in the Age of Disposability ? The Politics of Lying and the Culture of Deceit in Obama’s America: The Rule of Damaged Politics ? Zombie Language and the Politics of the Living Dead ? Everyday Violence and the Culture of Cruelty: Entertaining Democracy’s Demise ? Market-Driven Hysteria and the Politics of Death ? Torturing Children: Bush’s Legacy and Democracy’s Failure: Salvos from the Culture of Cruelty ? The Spectacle of Illiteracy and the Crisis of Democracy ? Zombie Politics and the Challenge of Right-Wing Teaching Machines: Rethinking the Importance of the Powell Memo ? Town Hall Politics as Zombie Theater: Rethinking the Importance of the Public Sphere ? Reclaiming Public Values in the Age of Casino Capitalism ? No Bailouts for Youth: Broken Promises and Dashed Hopes ? Zero Tolerance Policies and the Death of Reason: Schools and the Pedagogy of Punishment ? Brutalizing Kids: Painful Lessons in the Pedagogy of School Violence ? Tortured Memories and the Culture of War ? Youth Beyond the Politics of Hope ? In the Dead Zone of Capitalism ? Disimagination Machines and Punishing Factories in the Age of Zombie Capitalism ? Index.