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TV & RADIO CAMPAIGN: CBC TV & Radio, Toronto's The Agenda, C-SPAN Book TV, Democracy Now!, NPR-Talk of the Nation, Alternative Radio, Pacifica Network stations/shows, Community and NPR affiliate radio stations around the U.S. including New Dimensions, XM: Bob Edwards Show, Tom Joyner TV and Radio Shows, and Tavis Smiley TV and radio. PRINT CAMPAIGN: Toronto Globe & Mail, LA Times, NY Times, SF Chronicle, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, New Republic, Wall St Journal, Chronicle of Higher Education . . . We'll send to the trades: PW, Kirkus, Library Journal and Booklist *Original essays in the New York Times' philosophy column, "The Stone" *UK media pursuits: The Guardian UK, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement and more. ONLINE/SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN Giroux and Evans regularly write op-eds for Truthout, Truthdig and Counterpunch. Will send for review/excerpts/opeds, etc. to Shelf Awareness, Salon, Slate, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, Tomdispatch, Truthout, Truthdig, Counterpunch, CommonDreams, Z-Net and Alternet. Will pursue book salon on popular political blog FireDog Lake. We'll promote it on City Lights' Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Tumblr, blog and web site, and on Wikipedia. Active author web sites at: Brad Evans http://historiesofviolence.com, Twitter: @HistofViolence, FB: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Histories-of-Violence/177840865608235?sk=info Henry Giroux henrygiroux.com; Facebook: www.facebook.com/henry.a.giroux; Twitter @HenryGiroux Promotion via City Lights social media: City Lights Blog, CL Facebook (26K likes), CL Twitter (57K followers), CL Instagram (1500 followers), CL Tumblr (1000 followers), CL Pinterest (1000 followers) ACADEMIC MARKETING *Recommended Reading essay for Consortium. *Promotion of book to academic journals and associations. ENDORSEMENTS Ruthie Gilmore, more to come
About the Author
Brad Evans is a senior lecturer in international relations at the School of Sociology, Politics & International Studies (SPAIS), University of Bristol, UK. He is the founder and director of the histories of violence project. In this capacity, he is currently leading a global research initiative on the theme of "Disposable Life" to interrogate the meaning of mass violence in the 21st Century. Brad's latest books include Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of the Spectacle (with Henry Giroux, forthcoming, City Lights: 2015), Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously (with Julian Reid, Polity Press, 2014), Liberal Terror (Polity Press, 2013), and Deleuze & Fascism (with Julian Reid, Routledge, 2013). He is currently working on a number of book projects, including Histories of Violence: An Introduction to Post-War Critical Thought (with Terrell Carver, Zed Books, 2015). Henry A. Giroux is a world renowned educator, author and public intellectual. He currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department. His most recent books include: The Violence of Organized Forgetting with City Lights, 2014; Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism (Peter Lang, 2011); Henry Giroux on Critical Pedagogy (Continuum, 2011); Education and the Crisis of Public Values (Peter Lang 2012); Twilight of the Social: Resurgent Publics in the Age of Disposability (Paradigm Publishers, 2012); Disposable Youth (Routledge 2012); Youth in Revolt (Paradigm, 2013); The Education Deficit and the War on Youth (Monthly Review Press, 2013). A prolific writer and political commentator, he writes regularly for Truthout and serves on their board of directors. He currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada with his wife, Dr. Susan Searls Giroux.
Reviews
"Brad Evans and Henry Giroux's Disposable Futures is an insightful meditation on the role of violence in modern American society. In eight well-conceived and thoughtfully argued chapters, Evans and Giroux present readers with a damning critique of neoliberalism."--Gregory D. Smithers, American Book Review "It is in this spirit of interrogation that Disposable Futures is situated. Evans is here joined by the American-Canadian Cultural critic Henry Giroux, who is well-known for his critical writings on education. It is no surprise, then, that the book, drawing on the writings of the Brazilian educator and philosopher Paolo Freire, should be so focussed on the transformative powers of critical pedagogy."--Jack D. Palmer, Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal "Brad Evans and Henry Giroux offer a trenchant analysis of neoliberalism's ills: its violence, its dystopian vision, its intrusiveness, and its attempt to eradicate all critical consciousness and with it all hope. They diagnose our exposure to disposability in an era marked by the collapse of a vision of a viable future. In doing so, they have laid out the challenge before us. The only question left is, do we have the will, as the authors suggest, to fabricate a nonviolent response to it?"--Todd May, Class of 1941 Memorial Professor of the Humanities, Clemson University "Beginning with Primo Levi and ending with Deleuze, Evans and Giroux map the radical transformation that has affected the representation of cruelty between the 20th and the 21st century: from 'exceptional' status, associated with the ultimate figures of state sovereignty, it has passed to 'routinized' object of communication, consumption and manipulation. This is not to say that everything is visible, only that the protocols of visibility have been appropriated by a different form of economy, where humans are completely disposable. To counter this violence in the second degree, and preserve our capacity to face the intolerable, a new aesthetics and politics of imagination is required. This powerful, committed, exciting book does more than just evoke its urgency. It already practices it."--Etienne Balibar, author of Violence and Civility "This profound and timely paperback covers the tragic and disheartening phenomenon of the continuing increase of violence in the world today. It is evident in film and video games where the carnage is appalling; it is revealed in the militarization of the police; it is supported by the trampling on human rights to privacy through widespread surveillance; it is showcased in the great disparities of wealth and poverty; and it is present in the dehumanization policies of ISIS and of those who willing to do anything to win the terror wars."--Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
Book Information
ISBN 9780872866584
Author Brad Evans
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint City Lights Books
Publisher City Lights Books
Weight(grams) 326g