{"product_id":"traumatized-catherine-liu","title":"Traumatized (Catherine Liu)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTraumatized\u003c\/i\u003e traces the emergence and triumph of the concept of trauma in public life. From shell-shock and PTSD to the power of Oprah Winfrey and the authentic personal brand, Liu weaves together the history of this now ubiquitous idea and explains what it all means for our society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrauma culture speaks to our current moment - the demise of liberalism, the expansion of social media, and the rise of surveillance capitalism. Trauma culture promised liberation from repression and  oppression but has never delivered. Instead, it has been made into a weapon to individualise suffering, promoting a politics of false consensus. It undermines solidarity and eviscerated the foundations of liberal politics by demanding submission to a regime of vulnerability and accommodation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen suffering is all we have in common, what are we to do when we are all too traumatised to resist?\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLiu \u003c\/b\u003eis professor in the Departments of Film and Media Studies\/Visual Studies, Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine, where she also served as director of the UCI Humanities Center. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eCopying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton, T\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVirtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class.\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 208 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66142232019293,"sku":"K010785382","price":17.6,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1078538200001A.jpg?v=1791403802","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/traumatized-catherine-liu","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}