Mark Crispin Miller Lecture – “Ghost Democracy: The Disappearance of the Vote in the United States”

Mark Crispin Miller is a Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University and a well-known public intellectual. His writings on film, television, propaganda, advertising and the culture industries have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers the world over, and on his blog News from Underground (markcrispinmiller.com). He is the author of several books, including Boxed In: The Culture of TV (1998); The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder (2001); Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney’s New World Order (2004) and Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform (2005). He is the editor of Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008 (2008). He is also editor of Discovering America, a new book series from the University of Texas Press. He is currently at work on The Marlboro Man: An American Success Story, to be published by Yale University Press in 2011.