{"product_id":"9781912528639-capitalism-and-culture","title":"Capitalism and Culture","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSelected Essays and Interviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCapitalism and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e brings together Henry Giroux's most urgent writings, arguing that culture - far from being marginal - has become the central battleground in the struggle against rising totalitarianism. To resist, Giroux calls for a cultural revolution, one that reclaims the arts, education, and imagination as forces for democracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCapitalism and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, Henry Giroux argues that culture has now become the central front in a global struggle for democracy. Drawing on thinkers from Bourdieu and Gramsci to Stuart Hall and Edward Said, Giroux exposes how capitalism and authoritarianism now fuse into a single 'disimagination machine' - one that erases memory, normalises cruelty and trains citizens to accept injustice as common sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross essays and interviews, he shows that fascism is not only a political or economic project but a cultural one, sustained through spectacle, distraction and the control of language, media, and technology. Yet culture also holds the means of resistance: it can awaken conscience, preserve memory and cultivate the imagination necessary for solidarity and change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGiroux calls for a renewed cultural and pedagogical revolution - one that reclaims education, art, and media as spaces for civic courage and hope. Against the culture of cruelty, he urges the creation of a culture of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCapitalism and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential manifesto for artists, educators, curators and citizens who see culture not as entertainment but as the ground on which democracy itself will stand or fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56684774162806,"sku":"9781912528639","price":22.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38808628_efb49576-328d-4b5f-a354-d49557ce45f0.jpg?v=1764350622","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781912528639-capitalism-and-culture","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}