Battling Big Business
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“Battling Big Business exposes a spirit of troubling intolerance coursing through the corporate world: intolerance of criticism and dissent, as well as a deep aversion to public scrutiny and accountability. . . . All around us, freedoms are being taken lightly and power is being exercised with a heavy hand. If there was ever a moment to insist on the right to vigorously challenge authority, it is now. If there was ever a book to help us do it, this is it.” – From the foreword by Naomi Klein Losing control in the media arena as a result of activist pressure has become a public relations nightmare for the modern multinational enterprise. Shell’s Brent Spar fiasco is one well-known example, when the Greenpeace campaign against sinking that former oil drilling platform achieved its goals. Monsanto’s gross underestimation of the European resistance against the introduction of genetically engineered products is another. As more companies shift to being all about brand meaning and image,...
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Erotics of Talk
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Women’s Writing and Feminist Paradigms
Carla KaplanSomalia, & the Cynical Manipulation of Hunger
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Somalia, & the Cynical Manipulation of Hunger
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Mitchel CohenGot Pus?
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Got Pus?
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Bovine Growth Hormone & the New World Order
Mitchel CohenThe Rules of Art
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Written with verve and intensity (and a good bit of wordplay), this is the long-awaited study of Flaubert and the modern literary field that constitutes the definitive work on the sociology of art by one of the world’s leading social theorists. Drawing upon the history of literature and art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Bourdieu develops an original theory of art conceived as an autonomous value. He argues powerfully against those who refuse to acknowledge the interconnection between art and the structures of social relations within which it is produced and received. As Bourdieu shows, art’s new autonomy is one such structure, which complicates but does not eliminate the interconnection.
The literary universe as we know it today took shape in the nineteenth century as a space set apart from the approved academies of the state. No one could any longer dictate what ought to be written or decree the canons of good taste. Recognition and consecration were produced in and through the struggle in which writers,...
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Showdown in Seattle
Five Days That Shook the WTO
Big Noise Films and Whispered MediaVHS Format Video
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An incredible collaboration between the main constituents that made up the Independent Media Center in Seattle—Deep Dish TV, Paper Tiger, Big Noise Films, our very own Whispered Media, and more. Two and a half hours of footage and analysis of the now legendary Seattle WTO protests. From the National Lawyers Guild to the Longshoreman’s rally, Vandana Shiva to Jim Hightower, chemical weapons and rubber bullets, direct action blockades and rioting. Its all here. A crucial piece of history, testimony, eye-witness reportage, analysis, and alternative media in the making. For anyone who was there, and everyone who wasn’t.
