Showing results for "Language and Power" in Politics & Government

This book is about the power of communication to do great harm and how civic leaders and engaged citizens can hold other leaders accountable to prevent it. Author Helio Fred Garcia focuses on the language President Trump uses that conditions an audience to accept, condone, and commit violence against a targeted group, rival, or critic. Including a history of such rhetoric, this book identifies a playbook consisting of 12 forms of communication that typically precede genocides and other acts of mass violence. The Rwandan Hutu used 10, the Nazis used all 12, and Trump uses all 12, too.

This global history as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especially the drive to "Make China Great Again." We in the West routinely ask: "What does China want?" The answer is quite simple: the superpower status it...

The Goethe-Institut Mailand organizes the participation of the Federal Republic of Germany at the 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition “Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries.” The German Pavilion is supported by the German Federal Foreign Office, convened by Red Forest. From the 15th of July to the 1st of December, nine radiograms will go on air in the German pavilion, on Radio Raheem Milan and on reboot.fm Berlin. Created by international experts, “Nomadic Cosmologies and Fugitive Power – The Red Forest Radiograms” will build the program of the pavilion. Nine ...