Awkwardness has been one of the defining traits of the unnamed first decades of our young century dominating comedy on both the big and sall screens. Could this trend point towards something deeper? In this book Adam Kotsko answers this question with a resounding yes.
Awkwardness has been one of the defining traits of the unnamed first decades of our young century dominating comedy on both the big and sall screens. ...
A specter is haunting contemporary television the specter of creepiness. In our everyday lives, we try to avoid creepiness at every cost, shunning creepy people and recoiling in horror at the idea that we ourselves might be creeps. And yet when we sit down to watch TV, we are increasingly entranced by creepy characters. In this follow-up to Awkwardness and Why We Love Sociopaths, Adam Kotsko tries to account for the strange fascination of creepiness. In addition to surveying a wide range of contemporary examples from Peep Show to Girls, from Orange is the New Black to Breaking Bad Kotsko...
A specter is haunting contemporary television the specter of creepiness. In our everyday lives, we try to avoid creepiness at every cost, shunning cre...
One of the greatest challenges Agamben presents to his readers is the vast and often bewildering range of sources he draws upon in his work. Looking at figures including Michel Foucault, St Paul, Nietzsche, the Marquis de Sade, Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt, this one-stop reference to Agamben's influences covers 30 thinkers: his primary interlocutors, his secondary references, and the figures who lurk in the background of his arguments without being directly mentioned.
One of the greatest challenges Agamben presents to his readers is the vast and often bewildering range of sources he draws upon in his work. Looking a...
This book argues that neoliberalism must be understood as a system of political theology that claims to be founded on individual freedom but demonizes anyone who falls short of its impossible standards.
This book argues that neoliberalism must be understood as a system of political theology that claims to be founded on individual freedom but demonizes...
