149- so; Internet circulation and, 155- 58; made-it-happen-on-purpose (MIHOP) and let-it-happen-onpurpose (LIH OP) segments o£ 146; power and passivity underlying, 171- 72; public opinion poll and, 145; stigmatization o£ 152-54, 159- 60; university discourse linked to, 151-52, 158 - 62, !68-69
Nixon, Richard M., 107, 190n37
No Child Left Behind, 71 57
North Korea: in Bush's axis of evil, 95, 971 118-19, 121, 188- 89n9
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963), 106
Obama, Barack, 9
obscenity: evil compared with, 121
O PEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), 53
Operation Northwoods, 157
Oxford Union Society, 111-12, 114
Palley, Thomas, 183n7
Pareto, Vilfredo, 29
Pariser, Eli, 46
Passavant, Paul A, 63, 67-68, 71, 131
peer-to-peer file sharing and networks, 36-37. See also networked communications media
People's Computer Company, 36
,Perelman, Michael, 34
performative contradiction concept, 100, 189-90021
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (1996), 35
pervert discourse: Bush as example o£ 84-87; Bush's vacuous resolve in, 114-20; concept o£ 79- 80; other's wil in, 187n21
Phillips, Kevin, 153
Pink Bloc, 181n27
Plame, Valerie, 15
political action and participation: computer use figured as, 36- 42; consumer choices as, 6, 34-35; Internet vs. local settings o£ 31-33, 49; media proliferation juxtaposed to, 23 ·- 24; possibility for resistance in, 24; voter turnout, 1, 17, 179n34
political demonology concept, 188n5
political trauma concept, 35-36
politicization: approach to project o£ .16; raising individual to universal in, 14-16. See also depoliticization diagnosis; left (political); right (political)
politics: circulation of content vs. oficial policy, 20- 21; communicative acts as, 32-33; consensus of reality presumed in, 14 7; demonization in, 188ns; denial o£ 123-24; of disclosure, 38-39; displaced onto everyday, 39-40; divisions necessary for, 75-76; failures of, 11-12; frustrations with electoral, 2; language of evil in, 100-101, 189m6; party identification in, 1, 17702; religious invocations in, 97-99; social construction in, 7-8; structure of address and condemnation in, 136-42; tinknowingness as conditioning, 142-43. See also elections ( 2ooo-2008); left (political); post-politics; right (political)
Pollin, Robert, 54-55
p opularity: circular claims o£ 22; subjectivization o£ 177n8
Popular Mechanics (magazine), 154
postdemocracy concept, 10-11
Poster, Mark, 179-8onu, 182n33
postideology claim, 4 7
postmodernism: in corporate capitalism, 8-9; evil linked to, 188n8; as ideological, 97; political triumph o£ 7- 8. See also relativism
post-politics: concept o£ 10-12; as exclusion of political, 13 - 16; as ideal of inclusion and consensus, 13-14 poverty. See inequalities
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