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Faking a Limp: Display Your Symptom
People fake limps. Often. From a slight heaviness on one side to a full on Charlie Chaplin stagger, the fake limp is a common sight in today’s West. From children embellishing injuries to adults...
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You’re Born Naked and the Rest is Drag
Since the 1990s RuPaul has ‘sashayed’ his way into popculture, forcing a larger audience to think about the limitations of gender categories. The show demonstrates how identity does not naturally fall...
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Everyday Analysis is on Holiday
Everyday Analysis is taking a short holiday while we prepare for the release of our next book. Please look out for it and check out our articles below!
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The Election 2015 and the Manufacture of Media ‘Objectivity’
Everyday Analysis has been a little ‘Lacanian’ on current issues recently – not least the general election – remaining silent whilst the chatter continues all around and seeks to solicit responses, not...
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Dark Polls: The Power of Compartmentalisation
We have highlighted the issue of the delimitation and compartmentalisation of our online worlds and worldviews – and the uses to which these mechanisms can be put (quarantine as well as...
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The Cultural Role of Pigeons
While the puffed up politicians vacate the streets and return to the nest to plan the next round of shitting on us all, the UK’s city squares are left free for the real pigeons to resume their similar...
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The Eternal Return of the Shame: Tim Hunt, Shaming and Trolling Online
Guest post by Stephen Lee NaishCoincidently, around the time of British Nobel-winning biochemist Tim Hunt’s chauvinist comments regarding female scientists in the lab, I was reading British journalist...
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When Something Fascist Happens: What the Queen’s Nazi Salute Shows Us
The biggest thing in today’s news is the video that has emerged from 1933-4 showing the 7-year-old queen raising her hand in a Nazi salute along with her mother and her uncle, who would go on to become...
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The Left Wants Corbyn, The Right Wants Corbyn
The Labour leadership election is proving to be a dull and meaningless contest. It’s drawn-out, lengthy and three of the four candidates are ultimately ‘blue Labour’. However, the fourth candidate,...
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Beauty and the Beast: #CeciltheLion and the ‘Migrants’
One of the biggest trending hashtags in the past week has been #CeciltheLion. The killing of a lion by a rich American has stimulated outpourings of anger, disgust and sadness. The reporting of the...
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Dark Side of the M.A.N.T.A Force
A guest post by Stephen Lee Naish“Dawn on Earth’s twin planet. A mighty space ship hovers, dark and silent, above the battle fortress" "It’s the Black Barracuda!One Christmas in the late 1980s my Dad,...
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Adam Curtis Knows Why You Hate Your Life: Part 1
Guest post by Here Comes Everyone’s Adam Steiner“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”-George OrwellFear drives desire – we feel the lack...
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A guest post by R.M. ChristofidesA tennis match got a little uncivilised recently. At the Canadian Open in Montreal earlier this month, an already feisty second round tie between Stan Wawrinka and Nick...
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A Modern Refugee
A Syrian refugee apparently took a selfie on a decent mobile phone and it was not okay with the right wing militants of Britain. At the moment a hate-fuelled meme is doing the rounds on social media...
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Refugees and the Racism Crisis
Following on from the previous article, which analysed the content of a specific meme attacking refugees, this one – written concurrently – attempts to further dissect what motivates such memes’...
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Adam Curtis Knows Why You Hate Your Life – Part 2
The secondguest post by Here Comes Everyone’s Adam SteinerIn part 1, I riffed about the first spark of targeted marketing that gave rise to “the manufacturing of consent”; controlling voter behaviours...
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Oh, the Precarity! A Worker’s-Eye View
You finally find a job through an employment agency who seem halfway worthwhile, not like the others who you’re convinced advertise fake jobs in their windows to get the punter through the door, and...
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The Campaign for Nuclear War and the Unknown Known
As Slavoj Žižek explains: ‘in March 2003, Donald Rumsfeld’ – a man whose finger was never too far from the button– ‘engaged in a little amateur philosophizing about the relationship between the known...
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The Politics of not Leaving Martin Amis Alone
This article neither deeply respects nor violently chastises Martin Amis. As a result, it is going to look pretty unusual on the internet today. Very recently Martin Amis criticized Jeremy Corbyn and...
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The Kanye West Wing and the Rise of the Entertainment State
Stephen Lee NaishAt the VMA awards in August 2015, Kanye West took to the stage to accept his Video Vanguard Award from Taylor Swift. He concluded his acceptance speech by announcing that he would be...
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