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Category Archive: television

Booksmart, Late-Capitalist, Bougie and Banal: Sally Rooney’s Normal People

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Inexplicably acclaimed, Rooney’s novel offers canned millennial gender play with a scrawny garnish of warmed-over Marxism.

Guest August 26, 2020 fiction, gender, Ireland, millennials, television

Viewing Mental Health Advocacy in ‘The World Between Us’

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The Taiwanese drama provides insight into how our legal and medical systems handle mental illness, says physician Emily Lu.

Emily Lu June 6, 2020 medical history, television, violence

The Quixotic Search for South Asian Media Representation

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Mindy Kaling’s new Netflix series raises a vexing question: even if we agree that representation matters, what counts as good representation?

Aditya Desai May 27, 2020 Asian American history, Asian Americans, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, class, media studies, Popular culture, television

Out of the Blue, Into the Black

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The Good Place’s finale reminds us of things we never knew — like the impossibility of Heaven, and the reality of our singular, inescapable loneliness.

Alex Sayf Cummings February 1, 2020 philosophy, poetry, television

Like We’re in a Fistfight with a Fog

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“There is war, but always elsewhere,” poet Jillian Weise says of reading The Economist. Americans have been watching […]

Casey Baskin November 23, 2019 Aneurysms, media, social capital, television

Two Minutes Chait

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White men — what are they thinking? What do they think about what they think? Is it good to write thinkpieces on thinking about how white men think?

Casey Baskin May 26, 2019 #MeToo, academia, Aneurysms, Best of, foreign policy, gender, technology, television, transgender, whiteness

Dworkin It

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It’s hard to believe we’re now so far from the “post-feminist” moment of the 1990s and early 2000s. We find ourselves in a very different place today.

Casey Baskin April 14, 2019 #MeToo, Aneurysms, feminism, gender, labor, television

Schadenfreude: The Greatest Love of All… Is Easy to Achieve

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What a difference five weeks of pointless, mind-numbing misery, humiliation, and dysfunction makes, huh?  Our big wet president […]

Alex Sayf Cummings January 29, 2019 Aneurysms, Best of, class, Donald Trump, gender, labor, television, transgender, Uncategorized

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