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One Humanity, One Planet

A Framework for Worldwide Social Justice

Edited by Luigi Manca, Elizabeth G. Dobbins, Zubair S. Amir ...

Series series Environment and Society
Humanity faces two urgent and interrelated problems that may affect our survival. One is that we are destroying our planet and are unable (or unwilling) to stop; the other is that, globally, human relationships, institutions, and systems continue to rely on and perpetuate social injustice.One Humanity, One Planet: A Framework for Worldwide Social Justice examines these problems through the lens of ... Read more

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Humanity faces two urgent and interrelated problems that may affect our survival. One is that we are destroying our planet and are unable (or unwilling) to stop; the other is that, globally, human relationships, institutions, and systems continue to rely on and perpetuate social injustice.One Humanity, One Planet: A Framework for Worldwide Social Justice examines these problems through the lens of
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Images of Utopia in the Advertising Page

by Alessandra Manca, Luigi Manca ...

In this book, Luigi Manca and Alessandra Manca examine the use of utopian imagery in magazine advertisements from the 1970s through the early 2020s. Positing that these advertisements reflect the public’s unbridled desires, rather than reality itself, the authors argue that these idealistic reflections can lead the public to be unable or unwilling to recognize real threats to democracy, social ... Read more

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In this book, Luigi Manca and Alessandra Manca examine the use of utopian imagery in magazine advertisements from the 1970s through the early 2020s. Positing that these advertisements reflect the public’s unbridled desires, rather than reality itself, the authors argue that these idealistic reflections can lead the public to be unable or unwilling to recognize real threats to democracy, social
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Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene

by Domenico Branca, Ignazio Camarda, Brittany Chally, Massimo Dell'Ultri, Aide Esu, Emanuela Ferreri, Federico Francioni, Jean-Marie Kauth, John Kloos, Simone Maddanu, Giuliana Mannu0, Joaquin Montero1, Livio Perra2, Javier Romero3, Peter Seely4, Elizabeth G. Dobbins6, Maria Lucia Piga8, Luigi Manca0, Steve Macek1, Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy2 ...

Series series Environment and Society
Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of Anthropocene addresses three imminent challenges to human society in the age of the Anthropocene. The first challenge involves the survival of the species; the second the breakdown of social justice; and the third the inability of the media to provide global audiences with an adequate orientation about these issues. The notion of the ... Read more

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Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of Anthropocene addresses three imminent challenges to human society in the age of the Anthropocene. The first challenge involves the survival of the species; the second the breakdown of social justice; and the third the inability of the media to provide global audiences with an adequate orientation about these issues. The notion of the
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Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising

Dreams for Sale

by John Kloos, Jean-Marie Kauth, Zubair S. Amir, William Scarlato, Chris Birks, Jonathan F. Lewis, Paul A. Catterson, Margaret Salyer, Maria Lucia Piga, Vincent Gaddis, Joaquin Montero, Robert L. Craig, Ed McLuskie, Marian M. MacCurdy, Kathryn Kiick ...

Translated by Dolores Sorci-Bradley ...

The study of advertising and its treatment of utopian appeal enhance our understanding of consumer culture. By looking into the advertising page, we also look into consumers’ desires and the process by which these desires are reshaped and rechanneled through images and narratives created solely for the purpose of making a sale.Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising: Dreams for Sale, edited ... Read more

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The study of advertising and its treatment of utopian appeal enhance our understanding of consumer culture. By looking into the advertising page, we also look into consumers’ desires and the process by which these desires are reshaped and rechanneled through images and narratives created solely for the purpose of making a sale.Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising: Dreams for Sale, edited
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Interdisciplinary Essays on Environment and Culture

One Planet, One Humanity, and the Media

by Chris Birks, Pierpaolo Duce, Federico G. Francioni, Elizabeth Kubek, Sean Scanlan, Timothy Marin, Joaquín Montero, Kit O’Toole, Maria Lucia Piga, William Scarlato, Anne Marie Smith, Craig Stark, Martin Tracey, Francesco Villa, Elizabeth G. Dobbins, Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
This is a collection of essays about the media, the environment, and the whole of humanity at the brink of extinction. As the demands of overpopulation and of an unsustainable consumer economy dry up existing natural resources and destroy vital ecosystems that we need to survive, the corporate-controlled media saturate worldwide audiences with a barrage of hypnotic images and narratives to ... Read more

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This is a collection of essays about the media, the environment, and the whole of humanity at the brink of extinction. As the demands of overpopulation and of an unsustainable consumer economy dry up existing natural resources and destroy vital ecosystems that we need to survive, the corporate-controlled media saturate worldwide audiences with a barrage of hypnotic images and narratives to
... Read more

The Exhausted of the Earth

Politics in a Burning World

by Ajay Singh Chaudhary ...

**Marrying the scientific and political sides of the climate crisis issue, this is a hopeful call to arms about how we can overcome climate change.Climate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it's about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is to be done?**To answer this question, Ajay Singh Chaudhary brings together both the science and ... Read more

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**Marrying the scientific and political sides of the climate crisis issue, this is a hopeful call to arms about how we can overcome climate change.Climate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it's about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is to be done?**To answer this question, Ajay Singh Chaudhary brings together both the science and
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Status and Culture

How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

by W. David Marx ...

**"Subtly altered how I see the world." —Michelle Goldberg, New York Times“[Status and Culture] consistently posits theories I'd never previously considered that instantly feel obvious.” —Chuck Klosterman, author of The Nineties“Why are you the way that you are? Status and Culture explains nearly everything about the things you choose to be—and how the society we live in takes shape in the process ... Read more

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**"Subtly altered how I see the world." —Michelle Goldberg, New York Times“[Status and Culture] consistently posits theories I'd never previously considered that instantly feel obvious.” —Chuck Klosterman, author of The Nineties“Why are you the way that you are? Status and Culture explains nearly everything about the things you choose to be—and how the society we live in takes shape in the process
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Limits

Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care

by Giorgos Kallis ...

Western culture is infatuated with the dream of going beyond, even as it is increasingly haunted by the specter of apocalypse: drought, famine, nuclear winter. How did we come to think of the planet and its limits as we do? This book reclaims, redefines, and makes an impassioned plea for limits—a notion central to environmentalism—clearing them from their association with Malthusianism and the ... Read more

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Western culture is infatuated with the dream of going beyond, even as it is increasingly haunted by the specter of apocalypse: drought, famine, nuclear winter. How did we come to think of the planet and its limits as we do? This book reclaims, redefines, and makes an impassioned plea for limits—a notion central to environmentalism—clearing them from their association with Malthusianism and the
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The Substance of Style

How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness

by Virginia Postrel ...

Whether it's sleek leather pants, a shiny new Apple computer, or a designer toaster, we make important decisions as consumers every day based on our sensory experience. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how Americans live and work. The twenty-first century has become the age of aesthetics, and whether we realize it or not, this influence has taken over ... Read more

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Whether it's sleek leather pants, a shiny new Apple computer, or a designer toaster, we make important decisions as consumers every day based on our sensory experience. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how Americans live and work. The twenty-first century has become the age of aesthetics, and whether we realize it or not, this influence has taken over
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GREAT AWAKENING MAPS + The Great Awakening Ebook

by OneDigitalHub ...

Discover the profound insights of The Great Awakening Map, designed to help you escape the confines of the Matrix and return to the source of truth and enlightenment!Join the millions worldwide who have embraced this map as a vital tool in their personal journeys of awakening. It has garnered widespread recognition and serves as a guiding light for the Full Disclosure Movement.INSTANT DOWNLOAD - ... Read more

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Discover the profound insights of The Great Awakening Map, designed to help you escape the confines of the Matrix and return to the source of truth and enlightenment!Join the millions worldwide who have embraced this map as a vital tool in their personal journeys of awakening. It has garnered widespread recognition and serves as a guiding light for the Full Disclosure Movement.INSTANT DOWNLOAD -
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Future Shock

by Alvin Toffler ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies—and now provides a road map to solving many of our most pressing crises.“Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated.” —The Wall Street JournalFuture Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies—and now provides a road map to solving many of our most pressing crises.“Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated.” —The Wall Street JournalFuture Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask
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Scorched Earth

Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World

by Jonathan Crary ...

Refusing the digital world of late capitalismIn this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our “digital age” is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialisation of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror. Scorched Earth surveys the wrecking of a living world by the internet complex and ... Read more

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Refusing the digital world of late capitalismIn this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our “digital age” is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialisation of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror. Scorched Earth surveys the wrecking of a living world by the internet complex and
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