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Publisher's Summary
Visual images are everywhere in international politics. But how are we to understand them?
In Sensible Politics, William A. Callahan uses his expertise in theory and filmmaking to explore not only what visuals mean, but also how visuals can viscerally move and connect us in "affective communities of sense." The book's rich analysis of visual images (photographs, film, art) and visual artifacts (maps, veils, walls, gardens, cyberspace) shows how critical scholarship needs to push beyond issues of identity and security to appreciate the creative politics of social-ordering and world-ordering. Here "sensible politics" isn't just sensory, but looks beyond icons and ideology to the affective politics of everyday life. It challenges our Eurocentric understanding of international politics by exploring the meaning and impact of visuals from Asia and the Middle East.
Sensible Politics offers a unique approach to politics that allows us to not only think visually, but also feel visually - and creatively act visually for a multisensory appreciation of politics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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BRAVO, AUDIBLE!! WE NEED MORE SAID!! REAL BOOKS!!
- By AnthonyStevens on 02-27-11
By: Edward Said
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Race After Technology
- Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
- By: Ruha Benjamin
- Narrated by: Mia Ellis
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era.
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3 out of 5 stars
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the narration is awful
- By Sofi on 01-04-22
By: Ruha Benjamin
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The Russian Understanding of War
- Blurring the Lines Between War and Peace
- By: Oscar Jonsson
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
This book analyzes the evolution of Russian military thought and how Russia's current thinking about war is reflected in recent crises. What Jonsson reveals is that Russia's conception of the very nature of war is now changing, as Russian elites see information warfare and political subversion as the most important ways to conduct contemporary war. Since information warfare and political subversion are below the traditional threshold of armed violence, this has blurred the boundaries between war and peace.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book
- By Amazon Customer on 08-14-21
By: Oscar Jonsson
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Data Feminism
- By: Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 53
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story5 out of 5 stars 43
Illustrating data feminism in action, D'Ignazio and Klein show how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. They explain how, for example, an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization, and how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems. And they show why the data never, ever "speak for themselves."
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1 out of 5 stars
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a long pamphlet, zero value
- By Amazon Customer on 07-28-22
By: Catherine D'Ignazio, and others
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Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom
- By: Michael Rectenwald
- Narrated by: William Williams
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom explores the reach, penetration, power, and impact of Big Digital or the mega-information managers, social media platforms, Artificial Intelligence developers, providers of other web applications and functionalities, and the architects and proponents of the promised Internet of Things.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what I was expecting
- By Anonymous User on 02-11-20
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China in the 21st Century, 3rd Edition
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- By: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 52
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4 out of 5 stars 43
In this fully revised and updated third edition, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric rise from developing country to superpower. Framing their answers through the historical legacies that largely define China's present-day trajectory, Wasserstrom and Cunningham introduce listeners to the Chinese Communist Party, the building boom in Shanghai, and the environmental fallout of rapid Chinese industrialization.
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1 out of 5 stars
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He’s praises China and bashed the US
- By White shadow Jeep on 11-05-19
By: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, and others
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The Light That Failed
- Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy
- By: Ivan Krastev, Stephen Holmes
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not only there but also back in the heartland of the West. In this brilliant work of political history, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of Communism turned out to be only the beginning of the age of the autocrat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great text
- By Safronov on 05-03-21
By: Ivan Krastev, and others
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Fascism: The Career of a Concept
- By: Paul Gottfried
- Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story5 out of 5 stars 32
What does it mean to label someone a fascist? Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as a Nazi. But as intellectual historian Paul E. Gottfried writes in this provocative yet even-handed study, the term's meaning has evolved over the years. Gottfried examines the semantic twists and turns the term has endured since the 1930s and traces the word's polemical function within the context of present ideological struggles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- By Amazon Customer on 01-09-23
By: Paul Gottfried
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The Twilight of the American Enlightenment
- The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief
- By: George M. Marsden
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Story4 out of 5 stars 88
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, postwar Americans looked to the country's secular liberalelites for guidance in this precarious time, but these intellectuals proved unable to articulate a coherent common cause by which America could chart its course.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Such a relevant book to our current world
- By Adam Shields on 09-14-16
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Against White Feminism
- Notes on Disruption
- By: Rafia Zakaria
- Narrated by: Ulka Simone Mohanty
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 60
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Story5 out of 5 stars 60
Upper-middle-class White women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided over multinational feminist organizations and written much of what we consider the feminist canon, espousing sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity, all while branding the language of the movement itself in whiteness and speaking over Black and Brown women in an effort to uphold privilege and perceived cultural superiority.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important that deals, thoughts, and challenges
- By LTRomanceReader on 02-23-23
By: Rafia Zakaria
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The Whole Picture
- The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why We Need to Talk About It
- By: Alice Procter
- Narrated by: Alice Procter
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
How to deal with the colonial history of art in museums and monuments in the public realm is a thorny issue that we are only just beginning to address. Alice Procter provides a guide for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art history and tells the stories that have been left out of the canon. A much-needed provocation to look more critically at the accepted narratives about art and rethink and disrupt the way we interact with the museums and galleries that display it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A little hard to follow at times
- By jackie driscoll on 06-10-22
By: Alice Procter
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Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate
- How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination
- By: Alexandra Minna Stern
- Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 90
From a loose movement that lurked in the shadows in the early 2000s, the alt-right has achieved a level of visibility that has allowed it to expand significantly throughout America’s cultural, political, and digital landscapes. Racist, sexist, and homophobic beliefs that were previously unspeakable have become commonplace, normalized, and accepted - endangering American democracy and society as a whole. Yet in order to dismantle the destructive movement that has invaded our public consciousness, we must first understand the core beliefs that drive the alt-right.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A look at and Analysis of the alt right.
- By NJ IT Guy on 08-21-19
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Elite Capture
- How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)
- By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smth
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 96
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 96
“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom. But the “identity politics” so compulsively referenced bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position as Black lesbians with the explicit aim of building solidarity across lines of difference, “identity politics” is now frequently weaponized as a means of closing ranks around ever-narrower conceptions of group interests.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Short but Dense
- By Anonymous User on 03-09-23
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Like a Thief in Broad Daylight
- Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism
- By: Slavoj Žižek
- Narrated by: Jamie East
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 75
Urgent as ever, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight illuminates the new dangers as well as the radical possibilities thrown up by today's technological and scientific advances and their electrifying implications for us all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audible needs more Slavoj Zizek books
- By Nicholas on 06-27-20
By: Slavoj Žižek
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Identity
- The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
- By: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 733
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 624
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 612
In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabilize the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to “the people”, who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Robotic narrator
- By Shahin on 09-19-18
By: Francis Fukuyama
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Glitch Feminism
- A Manifesto
- By: Legacy Russell
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story5 out of 5 stars 38
The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. How do we find out who we are within this digital era? Where do we create the space to explore our identity? How can we come together and create solidarity? The glitch is often dismissed as an error, a faulty overlaying, but, as Legacy Russell shows, liberation can be found within the fissures between gender, technology and the body that it creates.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really adjusts your world view
- By Michael Anthony Betts II on 09-11-22
By: Legacy Russell