Lawrence Grossberg


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Name: Lawrence Grossberg
Title: Professor
Organisation: UNC

He is one of the founding members of the Global University for Sustainability.

Brief profile:

  • Scholar of cultural studies and popular culture
  • Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies and Chair of the Executive Committee of the University Program in Cultural Studies at UNC
  • His published books include It’s a Sin: Essays on Postmodernism, Politics and Culture (1988), We Gotta Get Out Of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture (1992), Bringing it All Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies (1997), Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays in Popular Culture (1997),Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics and America’s Future (2005), and Cultural Studies in the Future Tense (2010). Grossberg is co-author ofMediaMaking: Mass Media in a Popular Culture (2005) and About Raymond Williams (2010), and co-edited (with Cary Nelson and Paula Treichler) Cultural Studies. He has also published more than one hundred articles and essays.

Book:

Under the Cover of Chaos

9780745337913

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Are Donald Trump’s irrationality, cruelty, and bombast symptoms of his personality? Is the chaos surrounding him a sign of his incompetence? Are his populism, illiberalism and nationalism just cynical appeals to existing feelings of abandonment, resentment and rage?

Lawrence Grossberg shows that the truth is bigger and more frightening. Locating Trumpism in the long struggle among traditional conservatism, the new right and the reactionary right, he suggests that the chaos is far more significant and strategic … and dangerous. Taking the intellectual arguments of the reactionary right seriously, he projects a possible, nightmarish future: a cultural nationalism governed by a popular corporatocracy.

He lays bare how contemporary political struggles are being shaped by a changing national landscape of moods and feelings, marked by a growing absolutism of judgement and belief, and new forms of anxiety, alienation and narcissism.

Articles:

Icon of Lawrence Grossberg_What Did You Learn Lawrence Grossberg_What Did You Learn (78.6 KB) 2020-03-09 Author: Lawrence Grossberg.
Icon of Lawrence Grossberg_Political Intellectual Lawrence Grossberg_Political Intellectual (27.1 KB) 2020-03-09 Author: Lawrence Grossberg.
Icon of Lawrence Grossberg_In Search of Optimism Lawrence Grossberg_In Search of Optimism (60.6 KB) 2020-03-09 Author: Lawrence Grossberg.
Icon of Lawrence Grossberg - We All Want to Change the World Lawrence Grossberg - We All Want to Change the World (3.3 MB) 2015-07-06 Author: Lawrence Grossberg.
Icon of Lawrence Grossberg - We gotta get out of this place Lawrence Grossberg - We gotta get out of this place (5.2 MB) 2015-03-24 Author: Lawrence Grossberg.

 

Books:

We All Want to Change the World

We gotta get out of this place