Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism

Content: Zombie Politics and Other Late Modern Monstrosities in the Age of Disposability - The Politics of Lying and the Culture of Deceit in Obama's America: The Rule of Damaged Politics - Zombie Language and the Politics of the Living Dead - Everyday Violence and the Culture of Cruelty: Entertaining Democracy's Demise - Market-Driven Hysteria and the Politics of Death - Torturing Children: Bush's Legacy and Democracy's Failure: Salvos from the Culture of Cruelty - The Spectacle of Illiteracy and the Crisis of Democracy - Zombie Politics and the Challenge of Right-Wing Teaching Machines: Rethinking the Importance of the Powell Memo - Town Hall Politics as Zombie Theater: Rethinking the Importance of the Public Sphere - Reclaiming Public Values in the Age of Casino Capitalism - No Bailouts for Youth: Broken Promises and Dashed Hopes - Zero Tolerance Policies and the Death of Reason: Schools and the Pedagogy of Punishment - Brutalizing Kids: Painful Lessons in the Pedagogy of School Violence - Tortured Memories and the Culture of War - Youth Beyond the Politics of Hope - In the Dead Zone of Capitalism - Disimagination Machines and Punishing Factories in the Age of Zombie Capitalism