George A. Gonzalez

Popular Culture, Conspiracy Theory, and the Star Trek Text (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The forward progress of society is not automatic and should not be taken for granted. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 can be viewed as ending his effort to deploy American prestige and power to forward change worldwide. Today, there are political forces seeking to stop progressive social, political, and economic change. Whatever the reasons, such forces are conspiring to impose authoritarianism to suppress the public's desire for just, democratic government. The brutality, violence, viciousness, and racism (dystopia) of authoritarianism are becoming more and more the hallmark of world politics. Perhaps the most glaring aspect of this dystopia is the fact that the American state has been almost continuously at war for the past thirty years-including a sinister, dastardly drone assassination program. One means to obscure the ongoing conspiracy to ultimately impose outright dictatorship on the American people and the rest of the world, is to smear and malign critics of this conspiracy as guilty of conspiracy theory-advocating and embracing baseless fantasies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978777989
• Artikelnr.: 74397837

Autorenporträt

George A. Gonzalez is professor of political science at the University of Miami.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: The Misuse of Conspiracy Theory Exposed by Star Trek
Chapter Two: The Metaphysics of Star Trek
Chapter Three: The Progressive Dialectic of Star Trek
Chapter Four: The JFK Assassination and the Progressive Dialectic
Chapter Five: Cheney/Trump America as Dystopia
Chapter Six: War and the Human Mind: Star Trek, Star Wars, and Hanna
Chapter Seven : The Politics of Anger in Neoliberalism: Star Trek, The
Expanse, and Veep