... This chapter finds a paradigm for thinking about embarrassment in the music of pop artist Tori Amos because of the myriad ways in which embarrassed thinking and feeling haunts the production and reception of her work. Distinguishing embarrassment from shame and emphasizing the cringe rather than...

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..., and even embarrassing. The Aid Bunny and Trauma Teddy were central to the analytical development of the concept of the mere. The aged and often abjectly lonely knitters of these “humanitarian gifts”—no longer “productive members of society,” thus “useless”—also dwelt in the realm of the mere. Humanitarian...

... reading of the Web series Drunk History , whose stunning yet unsettling arrangement of embarrassment, laziness, slowness, cynicism, and digressiveness suggests, finally, a tempering or modesty in the uptake of obstructive work or in the affirmation of obstruction’s value. Likewise, if the present...