Live on Flatbush Ave: John Patrick Leary
Schedule
Thu Aug 18 2022 at 07:30 pm to 08:30 pm
Location
Greenlight Bookstore (Flatbush Avenue) | Brooklyn, NY

About this Event
Greenlight welcomes author and educator John Patrick Leary to Brooklyn to present his newest book, Keywords for Capitalism, out now from Haymarket Books, a radical, independent, nonprofit publisher based in Chicago. From 'liberal' to 'the economy', the terms used by pundits and politicians to explain our civic structures tend to obscure as much as they reveal about the reality they ostensibly describe. How do we make sense of terms like 'socialism' and 'intersectional' that are so routinely used and abused by such a wide array of commentators from across the political spectrum? Keywords for Capitalism is a probing and insightful guide designed to equip readers with the tools to do just that. Leary takes a wit-sharpened scalpel to the evasions, neologisms, and half-truths that crowd ‘the discourse’ and reveals the ideology of the mainstream political media that lies just below the surface. In the process he also carefully leads readers through the very real debates about the words that really do mean something, attentively distinguishing the substance worth preserving from the froth that should be dismissed. Join us on Flatbush Ave. for a master class in the dressing down of corporate media jargon.
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Where is it happening?
Greenlight Bookstore (Flatbush Avenue), 632 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 0.00 to USD 20.65