@book{Delogu, author = {Delogu, C. Jon}, title = {Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom: Readings to Repair Democracy, P{\"o}unctumbooks 2022, 472 pp.}, abstract = {In a comparative study of texts selected for their insights and occasional blind spots regarding fascist experiments of the past 100 years, Delogu examines fascism's exploitation of fear (of change, loss, and death), disruption, and extreme inequality. The book offers an accessible and persuasive argument linking fascist authoritarianism, also called "right-wing populism," to certain underlying conditions, such as a rise in us-versus-them thinking; distrust or simple apathy regarding democratic institutions, norms, and results; the vulnerabilities that result from extreme inequality (economic, social, racial); and addictions and codependency. Stressful events, such as a pandemic, an environmental disaster, or deep recession aggravate these harmful factors and make the fascist temptation, including the use of violence, almost irresistible. Delogu's distinctive examination of texts that plumb the unconscious reveal linkages between actions and unavowable motives that purely historical and theoretical studies of fascism leave out.}, language = {en} } @book{FrindteFrindte, author = {Frindte, Wolfgang and Frindte, Ina}, title = {Support in Times of No Support. A Social Psychological Search for Traces, Wiesbaden (Springer), 2022, 283 pp.}, language = {en} } @book{Keir, author = {Keir, Jonathan}, title = {The House That Fromm Built, (Karl Schlecht Foundation) 2020, 200 pp.}, language = {en} } @book{MorelockZiottiNarita, author = {Morelock, Jeremiah and Ziotti Narita, Felipe}, title = {The Society of the Selfie. Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy, London (University of Westminster Press) 2022, 191 pp. [eISBN 978-1-914386-26-8] [doi.org/10.16997/book59]}, abstract = {This book explores how the Internet is connected to the global crisis of liberal democracy. Today, self-promotion is at the heart of many human relationships. The selfie is not just a social media gesture people love to hate. It is also a symbol of social reality in the age of the Internet. Through social media people have new ways of rating and judging themselves and one another, via metrics such as likes, shares, followers and friends. There are new thirsts for authenticity, outlets for verbal aggression, and social problems. Social media culture and neoliberalism dovetail and amplify one another, feeding social estrangement. With neoliberalism, psychosocial wounds are agitated and authoritarianism is provoked. Yet this new sociality also inspires resistance and political mobilisation. Illustrating ideas and trends with examples from news and popular culture, the book outlines and applies theories from Debord, Foucault, Fromm, Goffman, and Giddens, among others. Topics covered include the global history of communication technologies, personal branding, echo chamber effects, alienation and fear of abnormality. Information technologies provide channels for public engagement where extreme ideas reach farther and faster than ever before, and political differences are widened and inflamed. They also provide new opportunities for protest and resistance.}, language = {en} } @book{Poerksen, author = {P{\"o}rksen, Bernhard}, title = {Digital Fever. Taming the Big Business of Desinformation, Cham (Palgrace MacMillan), 2022, 211 pp. [translation of Poerksen_B_2017]}, language = {en} } @book{ZiottiNaritaMorelock, author = {Ziotti Narita, Jeremiah and Morelock, Felipe}, title = {The Society of the Selfie. Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy, London (University of Westminster Press) 2022, 191 pp.}, language = {en} }