The Iconoclastic Imagination : Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11 / Ned O'Gorman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Gorman, Ned, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Assassination--Public opinion.

Kennedy, John F.

Challenger (Spacecraft)--Accidents--Public opinion.

Challenger (Spacecraft).

Social perception--United States.

Social perception.

Neoliberalism--United States.

Neoliberalism.

Iconoclasm--United States.

Iconoclasm.

Disasters--United States--Public opinion.

Disasters.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Public opinion.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bloody, fiery spectacles-the Challenger disaster, 9/11, JFK's assassination-have given us moments of catastrophe that make it easy to answer the "where were you when" question and shape our ways of seeing what came before and after. Why are these spectacles so packed with meaning? In The Iconoclastic Imagination, Ned O'Gorman approaches each of these moments as an image of icon-destruction that give us distinct ways to imagine social existence in American life. He argues that the Cold War gave rise to crises in political, aesthetic, and political-aesthetic representations. Locating all of these crises within a "neoliberal imaginary," O'Gorman explains that since the Kennedy assassination, the most powerful way to see "America" has been in the destruction of representative American symbols or icons. This, in turn, has profound implications for a neoliberal economy, social philosophy, and public policy. Richly interwoven with philosophical, theological, and rhetorical traditions, the book offers a new foundation for a complex and innovative approach to studying Cold War America, political theory, and visual culture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. The Neoliberal Legitimation Crisis

2. The Iconoclastic Sublime

3. Zapruder

4. Challenger

5. 9/11

6. America's New Look

7. (Neo)Liberal Genealogies

Conclusion

Postscript and Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226310374

022631037X

OCLC:

1053579733