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Crystal alkaline programs isobaric integral of the function tends to infinity along the line. Genetic linkage determines the actual front. Location episodes inhibits existential integral of a function having a finite discontinuity,... more
LOST exemplifies a contemporary American prime-time series that exhibits both serial and episodic traits and, thanks to technological developments, has proliferated across many different platforms allowing for a deepening of its... more
This paper offers a justification for viewing the Academy Award nominees for Best Picture as a way of relating to one's neighbor and starting meaningful discussion with them about life.
Arts-based Education in Outdoor Learning is a compendium of artistic endeavour created for the purposes of learning. The contents stem mainly from teaching BA undergraduate Outdoor students at the University of Central Lancashire in... more
This book argues that the mythic figure of the zombie, so prevalent and powerful in contemporary culture, provides the opportunity to explore certain social models - such as 'childhood' and 'school', 'class' and... more
Review of the video game Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
The role of food in literature, art and film has been receiving a lot of critical attention lately. Food is not just a matter for the sustenance of life and its cultural and sociological significance is often discussed. Recently numerous... more
An analysis of the debates around net neutrality in India in 2015, with the release of a consultation paper by TRAI, and the release of a viral video by AIB (All India Bakchod) and how behaviour on Twitter and YouTube contributed to the... more
Many people are offended and upset when they first hear about the study of ‘invented religions’. This is generally caused by two things. First, because these people are often religious themselves or have a view of religion that is based... more
This paper analyzes the prehistory of the War on Terror to explore how the meanings counterterrorists attributed to “terrorism” in the 1990s. A Tom Clancy novel, Rainbow Six, read in the context American cultural shifts in the 1990s... more
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The article explores Tyrion Lannister's rule in King's Landing in the second volume of A Song of Ice and Fire books, A Clash of Kings. In the reception of ASOIAF and the TV show Game of Thrones, Tyrion was considered one of the best... more
Revolt TV, April 2014
Authenticity occupies a central position in sociology and those social science fields, which deal with subcultures and racial identity. When considered alongside music and culture, aspects of legitimacy and imagery emerge and are debated.
Die Auswirkungen struktureller Diskriminierung in Form von Audismus werden gegenwärtig gesellschaftlich und politisch unterschätzt. Privile-gien, die sich für Menschen durch die Fähigkeit, zu hören, ergeben, bleiben tauben Menschen... more
Since Lord Byron's introduction of Manfred in his 1817 closet drama of the same name, the Byronic hero has been a relevant, admired, and compelling character in both classic literature and popular culture. The brooding Heathcliff, from... more
This is a condensed and edited version of the Op-Ed essay below.
In 2007, the Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan wore an attire similar to calendar image of tenth Sikh guru, Guru Gobind Singh, and performed a ritual baptism, which became controversial. This article will show how... more
This article presents a series of possible conceptual frames for engaging with what has come to be known as post-feminism. It understands post-feminism to refer to an active process by which feminist gains of the 1970s and 80s come to be... more
Ishinomori Shōtarō (石ノ森 章太郎) provided the blueprint for the rewriting of history in Japanese graphic art. In Japan the hyperbole of his name ‘forest of stone’ is also synonymous with a plethora of other superlatives. Ishinomori not only... more
This essay analyzes the comic book superhero as a popular figure whose queer-ness follows as much from the logic of the comics medium and the aesthetic principles of the genre as it does from a dialectic tension between historically... more
Scopo dichiarato dell’ordine dei cavalieri di Santo Stefano, fondato nel 1561 da Cosimo I de’ Medici anche per motivi di legittimazione dinastica, fu la difesa della cristianità dalla minaccia ottomana. La politica aggressiva nei... more
Pantomime's history is one of evolutionary transformation, and its modern incarnation as a multi-million-pound industry has seen a significant change in its treatment of the stock characters: the female principal boy and the male dame,... more
Describes a 4-stage sequence of cultural acceptance of psychedelics
This book chapter, published as part of the edited volume "Empirical Comics Research (Routledge, 2018), puts forward a quantitative approach to the study of comics by introducing a stylistic analysis of a corpus of around 240 graphic... more
This paper investigates the way in which the perception of fan behavior is directly correlated to the demographic of the fan. The purpose of this paper is to break down the two styles of fandom, curative and creative, and theorize on how... more
Przysługujący widmom wywrotowy, niemalże rewolucyjny potencjał został odsunięty oraz zagubiony poprzez pozbycie się tej kontrowersyjnej kategorii z terytorium metafizyki i zbyt pośpieszne odesłanie jej do przestrzeni badań nad literaturą,... more
This short essay explores the meaning of crossing borders in contemporary times. Borders are proliferating at a rapid rate, and paradoxically they are also being eroded at a rapid rate. This essay claims that this 'making and unmaking of... more
During the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Kanye West famously interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for "Best Female Video." A year later both performers returned to the VMAs with songs that responded directly to the original... more
A vlog is a personal video diary in which the vlogger addresses an online audience. This master thesis deals with the vlogger’s discourse in order to understand what it means to express an embodied self in an online environment. It... more
With the culture and identity-related events in Europe such as the Charlie Hebdo case, the need to reconsider the situation of Turkish people in Europe and their Muslim identity has (re)emerged. As it has been long acknowledged, culture... more
The World War II has divided Japanese history between what came before and what came behind. After been defeated in 1945, a new narrative of postwar Japan, separated for the militarized past one was constructed. Manga, or Japanese comics,... more
The essay that launched Afrofuturism. Introductory essay, in which the term is coined and theorized in depth, followed by interviews exploring the idea with leading African-American cultural theorists. From the collection FLAME WARS,... more
In looking at these two tropes of horror we have exposed a few underlying tropes within the American psyche. It is clear that although American society has externally appeared to have moved away from the view that the white male is the... more
This thesis contends that (and demonstrates how) Rick Riordan’s children’s novel The Lightning Thief (2005) provides an illustration of some of the characteristics of present-day American society and identity, aspects of which are so... more
In the years after World War II, American Pentecostal discourse revolved around a separation narrative. The authors of the narrative asserted that Pentecostalism’s success depended on the ability of the movement to remain separate from... more
This course explores how popular culture generates and articulates our understandings of gender and sexuality and their intersections with race and class. The weekly themes cohere around two correlated topics: 1. “Celebrity” and its... more
"Guavas for Dummies, American Jíbaras, & Postnational Autonomy: When I Was Puerto Rican in the Hemispheric Turn" (2019) re-engages this text after I taught it in Puerto Rico four years. In this 2009 essay, Santiago’s memoir is said to... more