Come check out our new October titles, including @moveablejaw.bsky.social's examination of contemporary ventriloquism, "Out of Sync." buff.ly/bWWE29D
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New Yorkers be forewarned! Ventriloquism is coming!
Nobody’s Dummy
A conversation about thrown voices and surrogate bodies with a dummy’s point of view....
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New Yorkers be forewarned! Ventriloquism is coming!
Nobody’s Dummy
A conversation about thrown voices and surrogate bodies with a dummy’s point of view....
canopycanopycanopy.com
TV scholars and TV-heads: Best writing on reality TV you'd recommend for advanced college kids? Old, new, and everything in between. Bonus points for show recs if they aren't too obvious...
“Obsessing over whether a person of color deserves a spot prevents everyone from noticing that white people get and keep positions without needing to be impressive at all.”
ProfKori@profkori.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis summer, Black scholars in THE NEW YORK TIMES and THE ATLANTIC have become spectacles. Meanwhile, white mediocrity remains OUT of the spotlight. Notice that and save your sanity! www.korithamitchell.com/seeing-black...
Not that anybody needs them, but these are my thoughts on Dr. Jason Arday’s death and the culpability of our “elite” institutions.
In "Out of Sync," Sarah Rebecca Kessler @moveablejaw.bsky.social explores ventriloquism’s surprising popularity in the contemporary moment, arguing for the centrality of the practice to understandings of audiovisual media from vinyl records to TikTok. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/qtkgt75
My brilliant better half has a new book coming out on ventriloquism, media, performance and politics. Pre-order now!
sarah@moveablejaw.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe New York Times has once again rediscovered ventriloquism so let me once again plug my book on the subject coming out October 27 from Duke UP dukeupress.edu/out-of-sync
The New York Times has once again rediscovered ventriloquism so let me once again plug my book on the subject coming out October 27 from Duke UP dukeupress.edu/out-of-sync
Out of Sync: Ventriloquism in Popular Media from Vinyl to TikTok
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If you loved HBO’s Industry, read this amazing piece by Anirbaan Banerjee, focused on the under-analyzed character of Rishi, @publicbooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/diaspora-ind...
Diaspora, Indebted: On "Industry" - Public Books
“Gambling with big bets against challenging odds, regarded warily by moneylenders, questioned about your ability to balance your books, needing to take on more debt to pay back older debt. Whom exactl...
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“Watched today, this flare of an episode from 2024 flashes even more brightly. It burns an afterimage onto the eyes that stays long after Rishi is no longer the camera’s primary subject.” A. Banerjee discusses the episode of “Industry” told from Rishi’s POV:
Diaspora, Indebted: On "Industry" - Public Books
“Gambling with big bets against challenging odds, regarded warily by moneylenders, questioned about your ability to balance your books, needing to take on more debt to pay back older debt. Whom…
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“Perhaps what makes the analogy between Rishi and Britain work despite the snags of racial difference is what Grace Blakeley calls ‘the financialisation of everyday life’ in contemporary Britain.” A. Banerjee on “Industry”:
Diaspora, Indebted: On "Industry" - Public Books
“Gambling with big bets against challenging odds, regarded warily by moneylenders, questioned about your ability to balance your books, needing to take on more debt to pay back older debt. Whom…
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“The irony of a brown man claiming this colonial slogan is worth noting, and the irony doesn’t run out in this racial register.” New at PB: In an episode of “Industry,” the character Rishi bets big on sterling. How deep does his identification with Britain go?
Diaspora, Indebted: On "Industry" - Public Books
“Gambling with big bets against challenging odds, regarded warily by moneylenders, questioned about your ability to balance your books, needing to take on more debt to pay back older debt. Whom…
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“The condition of debt once marked the divide between the diasporic and the host nation. This condition now seems to be what connects them.”
Diaspora, Indebted: On "Industry" - Public Books
“Gambling with big bets against challenging odds, regarded warily by moneylenders, questioned about your ability to balance your books, needing to take on more debt to pay back older debt. Whom…
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“Might the identification implied in Rishi’s statement ‘I am long sterling’ go deeper still?” New at PB: Through an analysis of “Industry,” A. Banerjee looks at diaspora, indebted.
Diaspora, Indebted: On "Industry" - Public Books
“Gambling with big bets against challenging odds, regarded warily by moneylenders, questioned about your ability to balance your books, needing to take on more debt to pay back older debt. Whom…
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“Gambling with big bets against challenging odds, regarded warily by moneylenders, questioned about the ability to balance the books, needing to take on more debt to pay back older debt. Who exactly are we talking about here: Rishi or Britain?”
Diaspora, Indebted: On "Industry" - Public Books
“Gambling with big bets against challenging odds, regarded warily by moneylenders, questioned about your ability to balance your books, needing to take on more debt to pay back older debt. Whom…
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A. Banerjee looks at an episode of HBO's industry, in which the character Rishi takes center stage. That episode sheds a “fascinating light on the changing shapes and shadows of race in contemporary Britain that are worth returning to and lingering upon.”
Diaspora, Indebted: On "Industry" - Public Books
“Gambling with big bets against challenging odds, regarded warily by moneylenders, questioned about your ability to balance your books, needing to take on more debt to pay back older debt. Whom…
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New at PB: @ryancarroll.bsky.social reviews “The Pitt.” Although the show is “chained to the social discourse beyond it,” there is truth in the fact that “we cringe at having to face issues that we must consider but have already considered a million times.”
“The Pitt”: How Corny Can Crisis Get? - Public Books
The show is chained to the social discourse beyond it, to online conversations and headlines and talking-head commentary and all the voluminous language through which we engage with social crises.
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“What might it look like to think of the show’s clumsy corniness as operative in its own right? What might we learn from a series that can be both moving and goofy?” The Season 2 finale of “The Pitt” airs tonight on HBO. Ryan Carroll reviews the show:
“The Pitt”: How Corny Can Crisis Get? - Public Books
The show is chained to the social discourse beyond it, to online conversations and headlines and talking-head commentary and all the voluminous language through which we engage with social crises.
publicbooks.org
“What we have, then, is a show that is both powerful and insipid. The Pitt burns with the desire to represent totality, but its corny obviousness often quenches its own flame.”
“The Pitt”: How Corny Can Crisis Get? - Public Books
The show is chained to the social discourse beyond it, to online conversations and headlines and talking-head commentary and all the voluminous language through which we engage with social crises.
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“From lonely young men to measles, from fentanyl to brain worms, from violence against immigrants to painkiller-swiping doctors, the show feels like a news digest come to life.” New at PB: Ryan Carroll reviews “The Pitt.”
“The Pitt”: How Corny Can Crisis Get? - Public Books
The show is chained to the social discourse beyond it, to online conversations and headlines and talking-head commentary and all the voluminous language through which we engage with social crises.
publicbooks.org
“It’s powerful, even as it’s corny.” HBO’s “The Pitt” packs scores of social problems into a single shift. Still, Ryan Carroll writes, the show’s aesthetic foibles shed light on the very mediation problems that concern it.
“The Pitt”: How Corny Can Crisis Get? - Public Books
The show is chained to the social discourse beyond it, to online conversations and headlines and talking-head commentary and all the voluminous language through which we engage with social crises.
publicbooks.org
“Critics have since hailed his sermonizing as incredibly timely—but in another way, it feels calculated for precision timeliness.”
“The Pitt”: How Corny Can Crisis Get? - Public Books
The show is chained to the social discourse beyond it, to online conversations and headlines and talking-head commentary and all the voluminous language through which we engage with social crises.
publicbooks.org
New at PB: Steacy Easton looks at 3 shows starring Joshua Jackson. The way he “plays sex,” Easton argues, “corrects normative desire for closure”—which makes the ending of “Doctor Odyssey” all the more disappointing.
The Shape of Ménage à Trois to Come - Public Books
“However much desire there is for the threesome to maintain its stability, the cultural force of homogenous marriage is strong.”
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“The emergency room in The Pitt is the imaginative material for performing what Fredric Jameson calls cognitive mapping.” New at PB: Ryan Carroll on “The Pitt.”
“The Pitt”: How Corny Can Crisis Get? - Public Books
The show is chained to the social discourse beyond it, to online conversations and headlines and talking-head commentary and all the voluminous language through which we engage with social crises.
publicbooks.org
“Who the father is is one of the least interesting questions.” New at PB: Steacy Easton on the collapse of the threesome in “Doctor Odyssey,” starring Joshua Jackson.
The Shape of Ménage à Trois to Come - Public Books
“However much desire there is for the threesome to maintain its stability, the cultural force of homogenous marriage is strong.”
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“The episodes immediately after the threesome do not allow for the potential of pleasure, or even bisexuality.”
The Shape of Ménage à Trois to Come - Public Books
“However much desire there is for the threesome to maintain its stability, the cultural force of homogenous marriage is strong.”
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“There is no real talk about the potential for all three to love her; the splitting must take place in favor of the heterosexual pairing.” New at PB: Steacy Easton on the disappointment of “Doctor Odyssey’s” heteronormative turn.
The Shape of Ménage à Trois to Come - Public Books
“However much desire there is for the threesome to maintain its stability, the cultural force of homogenous marriage is strong.”
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“It is impossible to imagine Jackson working in anything but a domestic context—but his work is to disrupt it.” New at PB: Steacy Easton on Joshua Jackson.
The Shape of Ménage à Trois to Come - Public Books
“However much desire there is for the threesome to maintain its stability, the cultural force of homogenous marriage is strong.”
publicbooks.org