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State of fear in a liquid world / Carlo Bordoni.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bordoni, Carlo, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postmodernism--Social aspects.
- Postmodernism.
- Fear.
- Disasters--Psychological aspects.
- Disasters.
- Social stratification.
- World politics.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 121 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2017.
- Contents:
- Preface: a silent companion in a liquid world
- Acknowledgements
- Phobos, a God repressed
- Fear of the machine
- Human adaption to the machine
- Natural and moral disasters
- Danger as an everyday experience
- Social security and individual insecurity
- Fear of invasion
- Fear of exclusion
- Waste in our future
- The frailty of personal relationships
- Forms of reassurance
- Globalization and "overclass"
- The panopticon inside the net
- The anxiety-inducing state and the management of insecurity
- Unde malum: a temporary conclusion
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- "Routledge Focus."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138283664
- 1138283665
- OCLC:
- 958585906
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