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From the Arab Spring and London riots through the era of Brexit and Trump, the Covid-19 pandemic and war in Europe, this volume collects eleven years of lively, informative and entertaining essays and polemics, focusing on media treatment of major global conflicts, political entanglements and culture-war squabbles.
--- Taking aim at the distortions and omissions of news reports and cultural narratives in the Western world, Stephen Harper highlights the dislocation between humanity's existential crisis and the failure of the corporate media to register its underlying causes - or even to entertain any real discussion of its solution. Instead, he argues, the media blithely serve the narrow interests of a global elite that is subjecting the planet to a reign of fire in the form of endless wars and ecological destruction.
--- Harper reviews contemporary journalistic, cinematic and televisual coverage, engaging with broad cultural topics such as 'cancel culture', the incel phenomenon and Covid conspiracy theories, as well as media events like the debate between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek. For all its eclecticism, Hot Planet, Cool Media has an ideological cohesiveness, rejecting popular left and right political positions and advocating the cause of socialism or communism in the Marxian sense of a classless, leaderless, moneyless society.
Contents
Preface - 2011 - Tunisia and Egypt: New Media 'Revolutions'? (2/2/2011) - Sophisticated Sinophobia? (20/2/2011) - 'Humanitarian Intervention' in Libya: Pull the Other One (25/3/2011) - 'Very Clear, Very Clean': Killing Bin Laden (6/5/2011) - One Less Obama-Maniac (25/5/2011) - Justice is Serbed (1/6/2011) - Bigmouth Strikes Again (27/6/2011) - Hackgate: Recuperating the Crisis (9/7/2011) - Islamist Terror Strikes Norway! (25/7/2011) - UK Riots: Echo of the Past, Glimpse of the Future (13/8/2011) - The Deaths of Others (22/9/2011) - Return of the Poppy-Burning Scum (5/11/2011) - Christopher Hitchens, Pro-Imperialist Bully (16/12/2011) - 2012 - Lady Bountiful (17/1/2012) - No True Scotsman (29/3/2012) - 'Terrible Things Happen': On The Bbc's Occupation (30/4/2012) - Neither Hollywood Nor Belgrade! (6/6/2012) - Rihanna Is A Satanist! (19/8/2012) - Stephanie Flounders (8/10/2012) - Whoever You Vote For The Government Gets In (4/11/2012) - Peter Kosminsky's The Promise (Channel 4, 2011) (12/12/2012) - 2013 - Bigelow's Back (19/1/2013) - Our Girls And Theirs (31/3/2013) - Doing Whatever It Takes (3/4/2013) - Mental Illness And The Media (25/5/2013) - Back To Iraq (17/6/2013) - Brand/Paxman (18/11/2013) - 2014 - The War According To Jeremy (5/2/2014) - Did Somebody Say 'Radicalisation'? (29/6/2014) - Israel, Gaza And 'Balance' (17/7/2014) - Scottish Separatism: Is The Subaltern Speaking? (2/9/2014) - War Is Peace: Malala, Our Girl And 'Feminist' Imperialism (11/10/2014) - 2015 - Two Ways Not To Respond To The Charlie Hebdo Massacre (20/1/2015) - Disoriented: Adam Curtis's Bitter Lake (1/2/2015) - Oblique Strategies (15/6/2015) - Srebrenica Revisited, BBC-Style (9/7/2015) - On The Ashley Madison Hack (25/8/2015) - This Is What An Influx Looks Like (3/9/2015) - On Jeremy Corbyn (13/10/2015) - 2016 - The Eu Referendum: Not Our Fight (21/6/2016) - From Obama To Trump: An Orange Thermidor? (13/11/2016) - 2017 - Jolie Jingo (6/3/2017) - Shame And The Soldier Of Conscience (30/4/2017) - Oklahoma City And The Denial Of History (30/4/2017) - From Bosnia To Syria; 'Fake News', Imperialist Agendas (4/5/2017) - Evacuated: Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk (30/7/2017) - Inside The State Of Hate (1/9/2017) - 2018 - Getting Real About Depression (30/1/2018) - Syria And The Media: Neither Rt Nor The Bbc (3/3/2018) - Talk: The Media And Capitalism (6/6/2018) - The Lady Vanishes (28/8/2018) - 9/11: What Happened And Who (Still) Cares? (11/9/2018) - 2019 - Christchurch: Media And Politicians Respond (21/3/2019) - Peterson-Zizek: Debate Of The Century? (1/5/2019) - Election Reflection (28/5/2019) - A Sense Of An Ending (28/6/2019) - People Power In Hong Kong (2/8/2019) - Communism Or Corbynism? That Is The Question (19/11/2019) - 2020 - Hot Planet, Cool Media (3/1/2020) - Cancel Culture: The Loony Left Lives (4/4/2020) - Covid And The Media: Myths And Mystifications (1/5/20) - The Return Of Black Lives Matter (5.7.20) - Making A Conspiracy Out Of A Crisis (2.8.20) - 2021 - Portrait Of The Incel As A Young-Girl (20/07/2021) - Entschlossenheit, Pet (29/12/21) - Postscript, Ukraine (5.3.2022) - Select Bibliography
