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bell hooks and Paulo Freire epitomize the best that progressive pedagogy and politics have to offer to educators. Their work lays a foundation for progressive educators to apply in their classrooms at every level of education. This book critiques their most important pedagogical texts, such as hooks' Teaching to Transgress and Teaching Community and Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Pedagogy in Process in order to contextualize them into the various educational settings that confront educators everyday. This book provides a solid foundation in the pedagogical methods, theories, and ...

Baudrillard & Lacan: At the (Exploitation) Movies! uncovers the multifaceted complexity situated in several previously neglected exploitation masterpieces. It examines: *Joe D’Amato’s Porno Holocaust & Emanuelle in America *Jess Franco’s Jungfrauen-Report *Christploitation Classic A Thief in the Night *Harmony Korine’s Gummo *Naziploitation Comedy Liebes Lager *Tim Heidecker’s Urinal Street Station *And Much More! Written for lovers of the Video Nasties, Grindhouse, Mondo, Postmodern Theory, and all things Weird and Sleazy. A truly fun and entertaining gambol through the bizarre ...

Google is God dives deep into the policies and practices of Google. It highlights the many ways in which Google aims to be a God -like presence in the world. The book meticulously analyzes Google media to show how Google manipulates the minds of people through exploiting our deepest psychological desires and deficiencies in order to make itself the most powerful tech company in the world. Google is God uncovers how Google utilizes the discoveries of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis to prey upon unsuspecting people in the same way Christianity did centuries earlier, thereby making itself...