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  Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

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  Sudeep Sharma UCLA

  August 22, 2012

  12 comments

  overall media climate where the possibility of politics to produce meaningful, systemic change is a joke. ... being jerks or unaware of the other side’s argument, seems to be difficult for Stewart, and The Daily ... limiting the possibility of politics, both The Daily Show and the media it ridicules contribute to ...
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  Nadya Suleman: Drag Mom and/or Social Menace

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  Ronald Becker Miami University

  March 11, 2009

  5 comments

  Note Although so much has already been said about Nadya Suleman in the popular press (and I’m sure ... clear, I’m not troubled by her “irresponsible” decision to implant 6 embryos at a time when she was ... (I’m not saying that that wasn’t irresponsible, just that I’m not all that troubled by it.) I suppose ...
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  I have an Army/We have a Hulk: Thinking Politics in The Avengers

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  john a. sweeney University of Hawaii at Manoa, Dept. of Political Science

  May 09, 2012

  4 comments

  conditions of possibility for politics in our historical moment, specifically as bodies subject to the ... possibility for politics yoked to presencing a mutative capacity? Is there an inherent horror to politics? ... antagonist. After Iron Man coolly outlines the sides, Loki brazenly retorts, "I have an army" to ...
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  Packaging Politics: The Criterion Collection and The Battle of Algiers

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  Brianna E. Hyslop University of Texas at Austin

  February 25, 2011

  4 comments

  fairly even-handedly, depicting the brutalities committed by both sides of the conflict.  In this way the ... scenes of Algerian women dressed in western-style clothing and carrying bombs are set side-by-side with ...
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  The Price of Politics

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  December 09, 2013

  6 comments

  endurance to animate new physiological possibilities through a body stressed from a greater complexity of ... is to hold both possibilities in a productive tension. The pain and sacrifice of training is vicious, ...
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  Voting for Super Bullshit on Super Tuesday

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  February 05, 2008

  button is still on. Here, though, and especially on a day such as today, I’m interested in how this clip ...
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  The Other Side of Democracy in the Digital Age

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  Dave Parry University of Texas at Dallas

  February 09, 2009

  2 comments

  The Other Side of Democracy in the Digital Age journalism Youtube politics President democracy ... there is also a seedy side to politics in the networked age. Technology plus mobs does not necessarily ...
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  Southern Reconstruction: On Killer Mike’s ‘Reagan’

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  Charles P. Linscott Ohio University

  September 03, 2014

  6 comments

  America, Mike spits his last line: “I’m glad Reagan dead.” But, while Reagan the man is dead, his ...
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  Passing Through: The Arts and Politics of the Jazz Ensemble

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  liquid blackness Georgia State University

  September 14, 2015

  forgotten personal side of radical politics, the ways improvisational jazz provides models for the ...
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  Harry Potter, World War II, and the Banality of Evil

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  Kati Sudnick Duquesne University

  November 08, 2016

  4 comments

  considered the Other and chose the Light Side. Harry potter and WWII from Kati Sudnick ...

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