Author: Geoffroy de Lagasnerie File Type: pdf Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are key figures in the struggles playing out in our democracies over internet use, state secrets, and mass surveillance in the age of terror. When not decried as traitors, they are seen as whistle-blowers whose crucial revelations are meant to denounce a problem or correct an injustice. Yet, for Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, they are much more than that. Snowden, Assange, and Manning are exemplars who have reinvented an art of revolt. Consciously or not, they have inaugurated a new form of political action and a new identity for the political subject. Anonymity as practiced by WikiLeaks and the flight and requests for asylum of Snowden and Assange break with traditional forms of democratic protest. Yet we can hardly dismiss them as acts of cowardice. Rather, as Lagasnerie suggests, such solitary choices challenge us to question classic modes of collective action, calling old conceptions of the state and citizenship into question and inviting us to reformulate the language of critical philosophy. In the process, he pays homage to the actions and lives of these three figures. **

Author: Bryan Pearson File Type: epub Most consumers dont trust companies as much as they used to. So how has Bryan Pearson convinced 99.99 percent of his ten million customers in LoyaltyOnes AIR MILES Rewards Program to willingly share their personal information? Pearson shows readers how to build the unwavering consumer loyalty needed for long-term relationships and how to do so without infringing on the privacy of their consumers. The Loyalty Leap arrives at a crucial time, illuminating the best practices for responsibly selecting, collecting, and employing customer data-the raw material of todays marketing industry. Supplemented with compelling corporate stories and the results from an extensive 2011 consumer survey, it provides a snapshot of consumer attitudes about privacy and the use of personal information for marketing and business purposes.

Author: Gregory E. O'Malley File Type: pdf This work explores a neglected aspect of the forced migration of African laborers to the Americas. Hundreds of thousands of captive Africans continued their journeys after the Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Colonial merchants purchased and then transshipped many of these captives to other colonies for resale. Not only did this trade increase death rates and the social and cultural isolation of Africans it also fed the expansion of British slavery and trafficking of captives to foreign empires, contributing to Britains preeminence in the transatlantic slave trade by the mid-eighteenth century. The pursuit of profits from exploiting enslaved people as commodities facilitated exchanges across borders, loosening mercantile restrictions and expanding capitalist networks. Drawing on a database of over seven thousand intercolonial slave trading voyages compiled from port records, newspapers, and merchant accounts, OMalley identifies and quantifies the major routes of this intercolonial slave trade. He argues that such voyages were a crucial component in the development of slavery in the Caribbean and North America and that trade in the unfree led to experimentation with free trade between empires. **Review A new and arresting perspective on the British slave trade in the early modern world.-Choice Review By taking up the traffic in human chattel after the Middle Passage, OMalley fundamentally transforms our understanding of the transatlantic slave trade and its consequences in the English Atlantic world. . . . A critical contribution to scholarship on the economics of the slave trade, and on the lived experience of its victims.--Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University |Hundreds of thousands of Africans faced a second slave voyage before they reached their ultimate destination - an experience that scholars have so far inexplicably ignored. Final Passages fills this large gap in the literature with meticulousness and eloquence. . . . The definitive work on the subject for many years to come.--David Eltis, Emory University |Just when the idea was taking root that all perspectives on the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans had been explored, OMalley has opened up an entirely new field. His focus on the intercolonial movement of imported Africans illustrates that where millions of Africans ended up living their enslavement had little relation to where they entered.--Sir Hilary Beckles, University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados

Author: Erik Tonning File Type: pdf Modernism, Christianity and apocalypse stages an encounter between the fields of Modernism and Christianity and Apocalypse Studies. The modernist impulse to make it new, to transform and reform culture, is an incipiently apocalyptic one, poised between imaginative representations of an Old Era or civilization and the experimental promise of the New. Christianity figures in formative tension with the new, but its apocalyptic paradigms continued to impact modernist visions of cultural revitalization.