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Thursday, 18 July 2024 12:03

Reactionary reflexivity Part 2: How Police Beatings are Described as 'Heightened Chaos'

Written by Dennis Broe

Dennid Broe concludes his analysis of reactionary reflexivity by focusing on TV news coverage Nowhere is the hardening of the once playful strategy of reflexivity discussed in Part I more apparent than in corporate media news. Instead of alternating between illusion and reflexivity, it is instead utterly delusional, while sealing…

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Monday, 15 July 2024 16:32

Reactionary Reflexivity: Sealing the Iron Dome on Media Coverage of Gaza, Part One

Written by Dennis Broe

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Part One of two articles on the modern media, by Dennis Broe. Image above: The New York Times: Is Any of Their News Fit to Print? There was a time, before postmodernism had atrophied and before it simply became a formal textual strategy for ignoring what is going on in…

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Tuesday, 04 June 2024 08:35

The Doctor

Written by Paul Victor Tims

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While the Doctor became Ncuti Gatwa way back in The Giggle, Ncuti Gatwa only became the Doctor with the Saturday-night debut of this episode. The actor’s abilities have, up until this point, been more or less a matter of faith and guesswork, since the material he’s had to work with…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Saturday, 20 April 2024 08:54

'The Sympathizer': Not Sympathetic Enough

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Written by Dennis Broe

HBO’s The Sympathizer, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, opens with a quote: “All wars are fought twice, once on the battlefield and the second time in memory.” It’s not simply memory that the book and the series are concerned with though, its “representation,” that is social…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 15 April 2024 10:15

The Good, the Bad and the (possibly) Interesting: Previews of some Spring global TV series

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe previews some upcoming TV series. Image above: Machine, now streaming on Arte What follows are a few global series worth watching in the coming months, along with a few not worth watching, and a few that have at least a curiosity quotient. These prereviews are of series at…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Friday, 12 April 2024 11:32

The Decline of Streaming Services and the Exploitation of AI for Profit

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe explains the decline in the quality as well as quantity of streamed series, and the exploitative use of Artifical Intelligence by the industry. Photo above: SORA’s “artificial” creation of a walk in Tokyo Last year’s retrenchment in the world of streaming TV is continuing with Netflix holding even…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 10 April 2024 12:57

How to Protest: UK Politics, Press and Propaganda

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Written by Brett Gregory

Brett Gregory interviews Giedre Kubiliute, principal author of Protests and the Media: A Critical Event Studies Exploration into the Future of Protest (Routledge, 2024) BG: Hi, my name is Brett Gregory and I'm an associate editor with the UK arts, culture and politics website, Culture Matters. What follows is a…

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Thursday, 04 April 2024 09:06

George Galloway MP: Mainstream Media’s Latest Sacrificial Lamb

Written by Matt Alford

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Dr. Matt Alford writes about the media campaign against George Galloway In early March, the late night UK comedy show, ‘The Last Leg’, responded to Respect leader George Galloway’s victory in the Rochdale by-election. Presenter Adam Hills called Galloway ‘a professional shit-stirrer … looking mildly more credible than the Monster…

Wednesday, 03 April 2024 20:00

'This Town': Trite, tropey, bloodless, racist guff

Written by Fran Lock

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Fran Lock gives the thumbs-down to This Town. Image above: Bardon Quinn (Ben Rose), Gregory Williams (Jordan Bolger), Dante Williams (Levi Brown) (Image: BBC/Banijay Rights/Kudos) So far there's a lot to loathe about this bafflingly feted BBC drama. I need to get it off my chest, so I'm going to…

Monday, 01 April 2024 13:10

The imperialist problem of '3 Body Problem'

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe outlines 3 Body Problem’s imperialist problem. Image above: the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a moment of chaos In Culture and Imperialism, Palestinian scholar Edward Said details how the great works of Western literature are part and parcel of the fabric of imperial domination of the West’s, and in…

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Thursday, 14 March 2024 13:19

All Hail The Uni Party: Democans and Republicrats

Written by Dennis Broe

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All Hail the Uni Party: Democans and Republicrats As the range of debate between the two parties in the U.S. shrinks, election season becomes a time of distorting the differences to make it seem there is an actual choice. One of the greatest aids in fostering this delusion is the…

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