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A great article about "performative abstinence" of popular culture. You can't understand culture or society if you don't engage with popular entertainment. @prospect_uk/1120622197138128896Permalink On Internet Archive
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This happens a lot with critical theory where people try to use 'critical theory' as a method in their area but divorce it from the context of cultural studies and mass entertainment. Adorno and Horkheimer, for example, very specifically studied Hollywood and old Disney cartoons.On Internet Archive
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There's a link between studying popular culture as indicative of broader societal trends and studying memes under capitalism that I gesture towards in my short @Fantastic_Next talk this coming Friday.Permalink On Internet Archive