Culture Catastrophe and Rhetoric

<ul> <li> It develops the concept of <em>political culture </em>through case studies of communicative action.</li> <li> It introduces the concept of the <em>texture</em> of political action which refers to how social context operates on the surface of an event to shape political experience.</li> <li> It focuses on the<em>catastrophic dimension </em>of the global social order by examining how ordinary people are contending with the paradoxical condition of normal system operation becoming indistinguishable from system breakdown.</li> <li> It integrates ethnography and critical discourse analysis through casestudies in Hungary Macedonia Kosovo Ethiopia Senegal Chicago the Occupy Wall Street movement online consumption and an art exhibition.</li></ul>