Books published by Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC

Has corporate business overtaken the art world? It's no secret that art and business have always mixed, but their relationship today sparks more questions than ever. Written in a witty and argumentative style, this book describes the art conglomerates from an insider's perspective, probing how their roots run deep into corporate culture.

President Bush was roundly criticized for likening America's antiterrorism measures to a "crusade" in 2001. This book addresses the role of neomedievalism in contemporary politics. It concludes with a parsing of Bush administration's torture memos, which enlist neomedievalism's model of feudal sovereignty on behalf of abrogation of human rights.

Explores our common habits of thinking about the presence and significance of the channels of information in our lives. Offering analysis of the philosophical and social foundations of contemporary media theory as well as everyday strategies of knowing media, this book addresses the advantages and limitations of different ways of understanding it.

"It's not personal; it's just business," says the professional killer to his victim. But business is always personal, and even though modern business corporations have been granted the legal status of persons, they are still part of the impersonal engines of society that operate far beyond human reach.

As George W Bush's Iraq mission unraveled, US policy elites revived counterinsurgency doctrines - known in an earlier incarnation as pacification. This title defines pacification as 'the process by which the government assert[s] its influence and control in an area beset by insurgents'.