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... Self-Boosterism Institutions Practical Jokes Comic Books Uncanny Valley Patricia Highsmith Tom McCarthy Siegfried Kracauer ...

... ), and comic book art. Description of the epoch of social systems, in relation to modern and contemporary art and the social theory of Erving Goffman, Niklas Luhmann, Peter Sloterdijk. Self-Boosterism Institutions Practical Jokes Comic Books Uncanny Valley Patricia Highsmith Tom McCarthy...

... operations, observations, and ego-technic media—become the switchboard of a self-organizing social order of things. Examples are drawn from the fiction of Patricia Highsmith, Tom McCarthy, Max Brooks ( World War Z ), and comic book art. Description of the epoch of social systems, in relation to modern...

... over the sitcom as the paradigmatic genre of the 2010s and 2020s and the collapse of the particular form of comic seriality that the book has centered. The book closes by considering the potential for sitcoms as parallel multiverses rather than serial circuits. genre comedy procedural...

... of heterosexual social reproduction, the sitcom in fact presents the heterosexual family neither as the inevitable point of departure for comic plot nor indeed its point of arrival. queer theory family abolition comedy sitcom perversion time ...

... sense of the tragic quality of life and human existence. W. E. B. Du Bois Trayvon Martin Cornel West ambiguity of recognition the tragic-comic ...