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annaleen@wandering.shop ("Annalee Newitz 🍜") wrote:
The advance reader copies of my forthcoming book have arrived and they are beauties! Thanks to @wwnortonlibrary for supporting this investigation into how we can stop culture wars in the U.S. -- by understanding their history, and recognizing psychological weapons before they harm us and our communities. #StoriesAreWeapons drops in early June but you should pre-order now! Imagine how pleasing it will be to have an antidote to culture war this hot presidential race summer. #bookstodon #books
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- A box of my books, with blue covers and red letters. They read "Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind." (remote)
- The back of the book shows these blurbs: “Annalee Newitz’s thoroughly researched and masterfully crafted book gives us something hopeful—a way to disarm the narratives that have been used against us and reclaim better ones.” —Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winning author of An Immense World   “A brilliant historical deep dive into psyops, military covert influence operations and the corporate attempts to conquer the mind. This will change the way you understand America.” —Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood “A penetrating, passionately reasoned analysis of how propaganda and disinformation have been used as tactics of both hard and soft wars, and how we continue to be manipulated today. This is a storyteller’s account of the devastating force of storytelling.” —Angela Saini, author of The Patriarchs “Annalee Newitz shows how words can have more power than even bullets and bombs. A read very much worth your time, as much to make you rethink the world around you.” —P. W. Singer, co-author of LikeWar “Illuminating and energizing, Stories Are Weapons can help us defuse the propaganda bombs going off all around us. It also shows how we can come together to tell different stories—stories to shed light in the darkness, make sense amid chaos, and forge hope and community instead of fear and isolation.” —Astra Taylor, author of The Age of Insecurity (remote)
- This is the dedication page of the book. It reads, "For anyone who has been told that they should not be alive. Together we will survive this war." (remote)
- This is the table of contents! Here's what they say: Preface: The Brain Fog of War Part I: Psyops Chapter 1: The Mind Bomb Chapter 2: A Fake Frontier Chapter 3: Advertisements for Disenfranchisement Part II: Culture Wars Chapter 4: Bad Brains Chapter 5: School Rules Chapter 6: Dirty Comics Part III: Disarmament Chapter 7: History Is a Gift Chapter 8: Deprogramming for Democracy Chapter 9: Public Spheres of the Future (remote)
