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Totalitarian Communication: Hierarchies, Codes and Messages by Kirill Postoutenko

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Totalitarianism has been an object of extensive communicative research since its heyday: already in the late 1930s, such major cultural figures as George Orwell or Hannah Arendt were busy describing the visual and verbal languages of Stalinism and Nazism. After the war, many fashionable trends in social sciences and humanities (ranging from Begriffsgeschichte and Ego-Documentology to Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis) were called upon to continue this media-centered trend in the face of increasing political determination of the burgeoing field. Nevertheless, the integration of historical, sociological and linguistic knowledge about totalitarian society on a firm factual ground remains the thing of the future. This book is the first step in this direction. By using history and theory of communication as an integrative methodological device, it reaches out to those properties of totalitarian society which appear to be beyond the grasp of specific disciplines. Furthermore, this functional approach allows to extend the analysis of communicative practices commonly associated with fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Soviet Union, to other locations (France, United States of America and Great Britain in the 1930s) or historical contexts (post-Soviet developments in Russia or Kyrgyzstan). This, in turn, leads to the revaluation of the very term "totalitarian": no longer an ideological label or a stock attribute of historical narration, it gets a life of its own, defining a specific constellation of hierarchies, codes and networks within a given society.

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Kirill Postoutenko (PhD) teaches literature, sociology and anthropology at the Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Saint-Petersburg and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Paris.

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"Die einzelnen Beitrage [...] bieten [...] ein facettenreiches Bild von kommunikativen Praktiken und asymmetrischen OEffentlichkeiten in Diktaturen, wobei der Schwerpunkt der Beitrage auf der ehemaligen Sowjetunion liegt. Anregend wird der Band aber durch die Einbeziehung von Beispielen aus den USA, Frankreich, Grossbritannien, einem UEberblick uber Diskurse zu Folterungen (von der Antike bis zu den Anschlagen am 11. September 2001 in den USA) etc. Das heisst, sowohl der Zeitraum wie auch die Landerbeispiele sind weitgespannt. Man kann dies kritisieren [...], doch - und das moechte ich fur diesen Band betonen - kann Vielfalt auch sehr anregend sein." Inge Marszolek, H-Soz-u-Kult, 09.03.2011/Clio-online, 1 (2011) "Die Beitrage sind in ihrer Gesamtheit stimmig zusammengestellt und wurden sorgfaltig editiert. Der Band vermittelt eine breitgefacherte Methodenpalette zum Studium des Totalitarismus als eines historischen und kommunikationstechnischen Phanomens, welches ergiebige, gegenwartsnahe Diskussionsfelder eroeffnet und zu weiteren konstruktiven interdisziplinaren Arbeiten einladt [...]." Konstantin Kaminskij, MEDIENwissenschaft, 1 (2011) Reviewed in: GMK-News, 1 (2011) Nasili, 23/11 (2010) IDAENTUTKIMUS, 4 (2010), Jussi Lassila laviedesidees.fr, 3 (2011), Larissa Zakharova Problemy sovremennogo obrazovanija, 5 (2011), Boris Lanin



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ISBN 9783837613933
Author Kirill Postoutenko
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Transcript Verlag
Publisher Transcript Verlag
Weight(grams) 992g
Dimensions(mm) 23mm * 14mm * 2mm

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