By Telos Press · Wednesday, June 23, 2021 Writing in the current issue of New Political Science, Saladdin Ahmed reviews Timothy W. Luke’s Screens of Power: Ideology, Domination, and Resistance in Informational Society, recently published in a new edition by Telos Press. Purchase your copy of Screens of Power today in our online store and save 25% off the list price.
An excerpt of the review:
 Screens of Power first came out in 1989, a time that would turn out to be the most significant historical turn in global politics after World War II. The book’s author, Timothy W. Luke, offers a concrete account of the history of neoconservatism, grounding his claims in critical analyses of the production of signs, codes, and mass opinion that were at the time making evident their systematic role in the perpetuation of what would emerge as capitalist absolutism. Luke’s book offers a groundbreaking view of both the macro levels of social mobilization and micro processes of ideological hegemony under which corporate capitalist actors would eventually achieve this end. . . . About three decades later, the soundness of Luke’s analysis barely needs any defense. To be clear though, as an exemplary work of critical theory, Screens of Power did not engage in the business of prophecies and game of predictions. Instead, it had the ability to look directly into the actually existing, and one might say with hindsight, ever-growing abyss of capitalist absolutism. The book may have seemed pessimistic in 1989, but now it reads as a faithfully realistic analysis of the neoliberal age.
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By Telos Press · Tuesday, December 1, 2020 Now available! Screens of Power: Ideology, Domination, and Resistance in Informational Society, by Timothy W. Luke. Purchase your copy in our online store and save 20% by using the coupon code BOOKS20 during checkout. Also available in Kindle ebook format at Amazon.com.
Screens of Power
Ideology, Domination, and Resistance in Informational Society
 by Timothy W. Luke
With a Foreword by Ronald J. Deibert
This new edition of Screens of Power: Ideology, Domination, and Resistance in Informational Society, first published in 1989, reintroduces the innovative critique of informational culture, politics, and society outlined by Timothy W. Luke in Telos and other publications during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Much has changed, but far more has stayed the same, making this new edition useful for many readers, as digital images ground personal identity, informatics is geopolitics, grand history endlessly reruns as televisually formatted ritual, electronic electioneering never ends, tele-traditional cultures spin up the spirit of tele-ethnicity in new social movements, and digital divides continue crashing against cybernetic exchange.
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By Telos Press · Monday, November 16, 2020 Now available for pre-order: Screens of Power: Ideology, Domination, and Resistance in Informational Society, by Timothy W. Luke. Pre-order today in our online store and save 30% off the list price. Release date: December 1, 2020. Also save 30% on Luke’s Anthropocene Alerts: Critical Theory of the Contemporary as Ecocritique and on A Journal of No Illusions: Telos, Paul Piccone, and the Americanization of Critical Theory, edited by Tim Luke and Ben Agger.
Screens of Power
Ideology, Domination, and Resistance in Informational Society
by Timothy W. Luke
With a Foreword by Ronald J. Deibert
Release date: December 1, 2020
This new edition of Screens of Power: Ideology, Domination, and Resistance in Informational Society, first published in 1989, reintroduces the innovative critique of informational culture, politics, and society outlined by Timothy W. Luke in Telos and other publications during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Much has changed, but far more has stayed the same, making this new edition useful for many readers, as digital images ground personal identity, informatics is geopolitics, grand history endlessly reruns as televisually formatted ritual, electronic electioneering never ends, tele-traditional cultures spin up the spirit of tele-ethnicity in new social movements, and digital divides continue crashing against cybernetic exchange.
On now countless screens of power, which are embedded in billions of smartphones, taxi seats, elevator panels, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors, airport walls, work cubicles, skyscraper displays, exercise machines, and home video centers, a mix of disinformative mystifications exploits with vivid images of violence the unprecedented inequalities and inequities expressed in America’s bitter racial, gender, ethnic, and class conflicts. Their impact is sparking widespread popular resistance because many citizens feel oligarchy and demagoguery in both political parties are eclipsing democracy and opportunity.
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