The Politics of Everyday Fear
The contemporary consumer is bombarded with fear-inducing images and information. This media shower of imagery is equaled only by the sheer quantity of fear-assuaging products offered for our consumption. The contributors address questions raised by the saturation of social space by capitalized fear.
An unusual and timely collection. Appropriate for teaching in philosophy, critical theory, cultural criticism, political theory, feminist theory, and media studies.
Avery Gordon
The contemporary consumer is bombarded with fear-inducing images and information. This media shower of imagery is equaled only by the sheer quantity of fear-assuaging products offered for our consumption. The contributors address questions raised by the saturation of social space by capitalized fear.
"Capitalized fear": This ominous term, like many coined by academics, seems at once perfectly succinct and impossible to understand. In a new anthology, The Politics of Everyday Fear, it refers to the mass production and consumption of fear in a capitalist society. A publisher’s note says that 'the aim of the contributors'—Charles Manson is one—'is as much to enact fear as to analyze it.'
New York Times
This is a fascinating and timely collection which examines a long-acknowledged staple of contemporary life: the production of fear within the consumption logic of late capitalism. While not buying into the credo that we have nothing to fear except fear itself, Massumi’s significant collection raises the stakes in the analysis of the politics of fear.
The Censoring Mind
An unusual and timely collection. Appropriate for teaching in philosophy, critical theory, cultural criticism, political theory, feminist theory, and media studies.
Avery Gordon
