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Richard H Beyler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the demon of technology Mass Society and atomic physics in west germany 1945 1957
    History and Technology, 2003
    Co-Authors: Richard H Beyler
    Abstract:

    In the cultural‐political literature of post‐1945 West Germany, atomic energy often functioned as the most potent image of a “demon of technology” fraught with both enormous potential and enormous danger. These critiques of techno‐science also represented a traditional critique of “Mass Society,” whose erstwhile anti‐western sentiments now had to be sublimated. As the Cold War developed, discussion shifted to ambivalence about Germany's place in the struggle between superpowers, and the “demon of technology” sentiment shifted away from the conservative end of the spectrum. The controversy over the “Gottingen Eighteen” anti‐armaments manifesto of nuclear physicists is indicative of these shifts.

  • The demon of technology, Mass Society, and atomic physics in West Germany, 1945–1957
    History and Technology, 2003
    Co-Authors: Richard H Beyler
    Abstract:

    In the cultural‐political literature of post‐1945 West Germany, atomic energy often functioned as the most potent image of a “demon of technology” fraught with both enormous potential and enormous danger. These critiques of techno‐science also represented a traditional critique of “Mass Society,” whose erstwhile anti‐western sentiments now had to be sublimated. As the Cold War developed, discussion shifted to ambivalence about Germany's place in the struggle between superpowers, and the “demon of technology” sentiment shifted away from the conservative end of the spectrum. The controversy over the “Gottingen Eighteen” anti‐armaments manifesto of nuclear physicists is indicative of these shifts.

Henk Van Nierop - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Twentieth-century Mass Society in Britain and the Netherlands - Twentieth Century Mass Society in Britain and the Netherlands
    2020
    Co-Authors: Bob Moore, Henk Van Nierop
    Abstract:

    Preface, Bob Moore and Henk van Nierop Introduction 1. Between Stupidity and Creativity: Mass Society in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth-century, Ido de Haan (Utrecht) Part I: Politics 2. Politics and People: Perceptions of the Masses in Dutch Politics, Henk te Velde (Leiden) 3. Dubious Democrats: Party Politics and the Mass Electorate in Twentieth-century Britain, Clare Griffiths (Sheffield) Part II: Welfare 4. The Arrival of the Welfare State in Twentieth-century Mass Society: the Dutch Case, Joop M. Roebroek (Tilburg) 5. The Welfare State in Mass Society: Twentieth-century Britain, Pat Thane (ICH London) Part III: Media 6. Media, Morality and Popular Culture: The Case of the Netherlands 1870-1965, Frank van Vree (Amsterdam) 7. The Devil's Decade and Modern Mass Communication: The Development of the British Media during the Inter-War Years, Kevin Williams (Swansea) Part IV: Leisure 8. Leisure and Pleasure: Competing Ideologies and Strategies in the Netherlands, Theo Beckers (Tilburg) 9. 'Mass Leisure in Britain', Douglas Reid (Hull) Pat V: Youth 10. The Youth Establishment in the Netherlands in the Twentieth-century, Piet de Rooij (Amsterdam) 11. 'Seized by Change, Liberated by Affluence': Youth, Consumption and Cultural Change in Post-war Britain, Bill Osgerby (London Met.) Index

Michael Haas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Global Mass Society
    Why Democracies Flounder and Fail, 2019
    Co-Authors: Michael Haas
    Abstract:

    Economic globalization has resulted in corporations, unaccountable to states, making key decisions within an otherwise anarchic world order, rendering normal democratic functioning almost impossible. Global gridlock has resulted from the same issues that plague democracies today. Although transnational civil Society has tried to achieve a degree of democratic global governance, the result mostly has been to reinforce the global power structure.

  • Mass Society Paradigm
    Why Democracies Flounder and Fail, 2018
    Co-Authors: Michael Haas
    Abstract:

    From Aristotle to C. Wright Mills and Samuel Huntington, democratic politics has been viewed as possible only if civil Society mediates between government and the Masses. The present chapter traces the origins of democracy and how the Mass Society Paradigm developed from Durkheim’s evidence that industrialization produced alienated factory workers, anthropological studies of elites in small American towns, Mills’s observation that colluding elites were trying to fool the Masses with the clever use of media, and Kornhauser’s equivalencing of Mass Society in both totalitarian and supposedly democratic societies. Much of the discussion demonstrates how Robert Dahl initially rejected but later supported the paradigm, whereas Robert Putnam discovered Masses detached from one another as the source of much societal anomie that precludes true democracy, but still stopped short of recognizing the need to confront the entire complexity of the Mass Society Paradigm before democracy can be revitalized. The paradigm accounts for civil strife, deviant behavior, economic stagnation, governmental gridlock, Mass movements, nonvoting and nonparticipation in politics, religious fundamentalism, revolutions, scapegoating, war, and worldwide anarchy.

  • Singapore’s Totalitarian Mass Society
    Why Democracies Flounder and Fail, 2018
    Co-Authors: Michael Haas
    Abstract:

    Although Singapore has elections and political parties and procedurally appears to be democratic, the government gradually undermined civil Society and became totalitarian, leading to a gradual exit from the country by the educated population seeking to live under true democracy. The chapter describes in detail how one-party rule has been established, pressure groups have been outlawed, the media is controlled by the government with considerable censorship, efforts at thought control have been undertaken, the educational system and the military are tightly controlled, courts are politicized, and the government has even sought to control marriage practices. The result has been corporatist government, corruption, criminal injustice, deviant behavior, brainwashing, inequality and poverty, insultocratic behavior, racism, sexism, and out-migration. Even housing is under the thumb of the government. Danger lies in the fact that the Singapore case is being used as a model for China and that many of Singapore’s methods for undermining democracy describe how Donald Trump has operated as president of the United States.

  • Remedies for the Perils of Mass Society
    Why Democracies Flounder and Fail, 2018
    Co-Authors: Michael Haas
    Abstract:

    Having diagnosed why democracies flounder, the book ends with prescriptions for how to revitalize democratic principles. Whereas most observers focus on micro-remedies, the major macro-remedy is to overcome the philosophy of Social Darwinism and the emphasis on pragmatic goal attainment as the basis for thinking about government. Instead, there is a need to return to the goals of the Enlightenment, which is to advance a humanistic belief that the needs of Society transcend those of the individual. The Enlightenment, which sought to go beyond fear and ignorance by solving problems with factual information and science, was the premise for the adoption of democracy. Democracy flounders and fails when the goals of the Enlightenment are abandoned, so the future depends on a restoration of Enlightenment thinking.

Richard L Kaplan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Between Mass Society and revolutionary praxis: The contradictions of Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle:
    European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2012
    Co-Authors: Richard L Kaplan
    Abstract:

    In 1967, Guy Debord published his landmark analysis of the spectacle. Building on Marx’s theory of alienation, the spectacle describes our passive, quasi-visual relation to the social world. The individual, divorced from the collective praxis that constructs our social world, is reduced to consuming corporate-supplied entrancing narratives. This article explicates and assesses Debord’s theory. Its most serious defect is Debord’s rejection of the necessary intermediation of social life by culture and communication. Furthermore, his analysis subscribes to the trope of Mass Society, which sees the populace as culturally denuded, divorced from community and subject to the imposition of false needs. Against this alienated world, Debord pits the ideal of a collective revolutionary subject that freely creates Society. However, both terms – alienated Masses and revolutionary collective – are implicitly dependent upon liberal individualism, which abstracts individuals from the cultural traditions and social relati...

  • between Mass Society and revolutionary praxis the contradictions of guy debord s Society of the spectacle
    European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2012
    Co-Authors: Richard L Kaplan
    Abstract:

    In 1967, Guy Debord published his landmark analysis of the spectacle. Building on Marx’s theory of alienation, the spectacle describes our passive, quasi-visual relation to the social world. The individual, divorced from the collective praxis that constructs our social world, is reduced to consuming corporate-supplied entrancing narratives. This article explicates and assesses Debord’s theory. Its most serious defect is Debord’s rejection of the necessary intermediation of social life by culture and communication. Furthermore, his analysis subscribes to the trope of Mass Society, which sees the populace as culturally denuded, divorced from community and subject to the imposition of false needs. Against this alienated world, Debord pits the ideal of a collective revolutionary subject that freely creates Society. However, both terms – alienated Masses and revolutionary collective – are implicitly dependent upon liberal individualism, which abstracts individuals from the cultural traditions and social relati...

Duncan B. Double - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.