Log In
Or create an account ->
Imperial Library
Home
About
News
Upload
Forum
Help
Login/SignUp
Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
0. Introduction: Write on What You Enjoy! (or, EVERYDAY aNALYSIS) – Culture and Contemporaneity
Advertising
1. The Pure Advert: Analysing Perfume
2. No Surprises: Kinder Eggs and Blue and Pink Economy
3. Three Cold Sore Treatments
4. Can the Advert Say: ‘You’re Not You When You’re Interpellated’?
Animals
5. One Foot in the Grave and One in the Distant Past: Jonathan the Ancient Tortoise
6. Cat vs. Rabbit: The Object of Desire
Art
7. The Assassination of J. D. Salinger by the Coward Richard Prince
8. If You Haven’t Got Anything Nice to Say, Don’t Say Anything
9. On Art and Disobedience; Or, What is an Intervention? The Knight’s Move from Guernica to Social Space
Books, Literature, and Reading
10. A Note on Feeling an Affinity with What You’re Reading
11. Ian McEwan and Intentional Fallacy
12. Morrissey and Canonicity
13. Reading Childishly: A Case Study
14. Is God Dead in Harry Potter?
15. Reading Between the Lines of What Stays Within Them: Genre Fiction, Normality, and Analysis of Structure
Dating, Relationships, Sex, and Love
16. Soft Focus: How Dating Websites Subvert the Romantic Ideal
17. Getting Google’s Approval
18. An Archive of Your Ex
Digital Culture
19. Social Media Image-Crafting and Hyper-Analysis
20. #nomakeupselfies
21. Use Your Imagination!
22. Big Data, the NSA, and Heidegger’s ‘Standing Reserve’
23. A Plea for Self-Expression(ism)
24. For Peaches
Education
25. What Really Goes on in an ‘Outstanding’ School?
26. Sneamp, Queep, Bamph, Pleesh: The Phonics Screening Check and Educational Testing
Film and Television
27. Nymphomaniac: The Male Gaze Meets its Maker
28. Poversion: The Perverse Position of Poverty Porn
29. The Bling Ring ‘Thing’
30. Mars One: A New Future for Reality Television
31. Epic and the Hysteria of Modernity
32. The Banking Crisis in Deal or No Deal
Language
33. The Word ‘Popping’
34. Fail is the Ghost of Success
35. Yeh No But
Media
36. Nooks and Kindles: Media en Abyme
37. Points of View: The BBC’s Gaze in Media Hegemony
Miscellaneous
38. On Almost Bumping into Someone when Walking Around a Corner
39. On Seeing Yourself on a Big Screen
40. Secret Santa: A Christmas Analysis
41. Capitalistrology! Astrology as Another Stupid Adaptation to the World of Capital
42. A Homeless Person of One’s Own
43. On the Stehzellen, Block 11, Auschwitz I: An Analysis Based on a Visit to the Concentration Camp
Music
44. LONG.LIVE.A$AP: The Voice as Trill
45. Robin Thicke and the Position of Feminism
46. The Sinthomic Blank in Future Bass and Dubstep
47. Are Rammstein Fascist or Postmodern?
48. Record Store Day, and Why Home Taping Should Kill Music
49. Anxious About UK Grime
50. ‘I am Burial’: Anonymity, Gaze, and The (Un)True Self
Philosophy
51. Big Questions, Age-Old Debates, and Problems We Will Never Solve
52. On Žižek Writing for the Guardian
Politics
53. Go on Ahead, and Write a Letter to Your M.P.: On Not Getting Through
54. What’s Really at Stake in Women Serving on the Frontline?
55. Resisting Arrest: The UK Home Office’s Tweets
56. The Mark Duggan Inquest: Politicians and Fetishistic Disavowal
57. The Knavery of David Cameron, The Foolery of the Coalition: A Note on Political Engagement
58. Nelson Mandela: Symbol or Allegory?
59. The Revolution, As It’s Being Televised … Brand, Badiou, and Voting
60. Sending Shit to UKIP
61. A Politics Now!
Sport
62. Playing at Being a Sportsperson at the Winter Olympics
63. Dani Alves: A Banana Used as a Banana
64. Loving Football
65. World Cup 2014: Sky Sports Live! and Alain Badiou’s ‘Event’
66. Croatian Football and Racism
Superheroes and Comic Universes
67. Superman vs. Batman: The Quest for American Exceptionalism
68. The Beast, the Sovereign, and The Superior Spider-Man
Work and Play
69. Brecht, Benjamin and Bad Service
70. The Scrabble Squabble; or, the Plight of Online Opposition
71. Talking Behind the Back
72. Amazon Turk and Inevitable Capitalism
73. What is a Strike?
Notes
← Prev
Back
Next →
← Prev
Back
Next →