Copeland, Kenneth, 184n3o
Copjec, Joan, 184n28, 187n21
Corn Laws (England), 183n7
corporatization: communicative deluge linked to, 23; postmodernism and, 8- 9 ; realities o£ 56-57
Coulter, Ann, 189n11
Covenant Celebration Church (Tacoma), 6o
credibility. See certainty and credibility
crimnal justice system: decline of rehabilitation ideal in, 70 -71; enemy combatants and, 130-31; in Keynesianism vs. neoliberalism, 71-72; language of victimization in, 6; as suffused with violence, 134. See also consumer I crimnal doublet
Critchley, Simon, 181n27
Crouch, Colin, 17906
culture: democratic governance and entertainment, 24; evil depicted in, 99i of ironYi 96-97
culture wars: contested truth in, 147; delimting of ('everything" in, 97i left's victory in, 7-8
Davidson, Donald, 163
Dean, Howard, 40-411 119-20
Pebord, GuYi 18on19
de-democratization, 12-13, 16.:17. See also post-politics
Deleuze, Gilles, 8, 30
deliberative democracy: concept o£ �1- 83; critique f, 13; discourse in, 78- 8o, 187n8; limits and self-justifcation in, 91-92; theories and practices linked in, 77-78; in university discourse terms, 87-92
democracy: contested category o£ 17; in decision making vs. post-decision debate, 91-92; evil as impossible in, 107; failures o£ 25, 76-77, 92; hysteric discourse in, 149; lack of, 83-87; left's enthusiasm for, 10, 16--17, 75-78, 93-
94i legitimacy of, 14, 82; "people" constructed in, 186n64; postdemocracy concept, 10-11; as present and inevitable, 92-94; publicity ideal in, 148; as radical ideal, 80- 83; as solution to every problem, 119-20; sovereignty of people in, 21; talkswithout-responding type of, 22-23; use of term, 20. See also communicative capitali�m; de-democratization; deliberative democracy; democratic rhetoric; democratic theory
Democracy Now (radio program), 19
Democratic Leadership Council, 2
democratic rhetoric: in advertising computers and Internet use, 36-42; hegemony o£ 17-1B; ofleft, 10, 16-17, 75-7B, 93-94; paradox of, 93-94; of right, 75; themes in, 75-76, Bo-Bs
democratic theory: on argument and deliberation, 7B-Bo, 1B7nB; consensus of reality presumed in, 147; as discourse of university, B7 -92; hope absorbed and destroyed in, 76-7B, BB, 92; as justification for rule, 77-7B, 9i-92; procedural focus o£ B1- 83; ways of thinkg about, 76-7B
DeMott, Benjamin, 154
denial: concept o£ 41-42
depoliticization diagnosis: economics and, 15-16; limts of, 10;.12, 17Bn24; rhetoric o£ 12-13
deregulation: in banking industry, 49- 50i free-trade fantasy and, 55-62; governments' adoption of, 54-55; left support for, 34· See also free trade; global neoliberal capitalism; neoliberalism
Dickens, Charles, 61
discourse: democracy as radical ideal in, 8o-B3; discourses' sharing of a lack, B6-B7; dogmatism in, 100-101; of
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