A Hokies' Lament: American Social Psychosis and the Virginia Tech Killings

Stephen Pfohl

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32855/fcapital.200702.003

Keywords: Social Theory, Capitalism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Critique, Digital Society, Sociology, Scholarly Journal, Peer reviewed journal, Ben Agger, Tim Luke

Abstract

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Author Biography

Stephen Pfohl

Stephen Pfohl is a Professor of Sociology at Boston College where he teaches courses on social theory; postmodern culture; crime, deviance and social control; images and power; and sociology and psychoanalysis. Stephen is the author of numerous books and articles including Left Behind: Religion, Technology and Flight from the Flesh (2007); Death at the Parasite CafÅ½; Images of Deviance and Social Control; Predicting Dangerousness , and the forthcoming volumes Venus in Video and Magic and the Machine. A past-President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and a founding member of Sit-Com International, a Boston-area collective of activists and artists, Pfohl is also co-editor of the 2006 book Culture, Power, and History: Studies in Critical Sociology.

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Published

2019-04-22

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2007): Fast Capitalism 3.1: Special Issue on Virginia Tech

Section

Special Issue on Virginia Tech

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