THE HUNGER GAMES: Is it Radical?
Today Everyday Analysis launches a mini-series of video analyses of films, music and advertizing, in the spirit of Roland Barthes and Slavoj Zizek. Hope you like it!
View ArticleEnjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism
This video explores some of the book ‘Enjoying It,’ which is available now. Written by one of Everyday Analysis’s editors - please check it out and get the book.
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Legitimate Enjoyment and Mong Kok Pop
Mong Kok Pop (or MK-Pop) is a particularly contemporary phenomenon, having appeared as a term as recently as 2014. MK-Pop is an imitation of Korean K-Pop, which has infiltrated Hong Kong culture over...
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Go ‘Checkout Provo’
Steve Hanson joins the Everyday Analysis CollectiveA friend and I met recently and started to discuss how, completely independent of each other, we had been engaging in tiny acts of ‘checkout...
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The Politics of Christmas Trees in China and Germany
We have a Christmas tree. This might not sound special, but in Shenzhen, a city of 15 million, we might even be the only ones who do.Okay. It’s not really a tree.It’s two steel rods fitted together,...
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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 Tunnock’s Trauma: Biscuits and Nationalism
Following a new advertising campaign in which tea cake giants Tunnock’s referred to their iconic Scottish snack as the ‘Great British Tea Cake’ and removed the Scottish Lion from its packaging,...
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How Soon is Now? Interpellation and Pop Misery
At the risk of over-simplification, the French Marxist Louis Althusser’s development of his theory of ‘interpellation’ is incredibly useful for understanding the extent to which our subjectivity—or the...
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Space Cowboy Capitalism: The Martian
“Satellite’s gone, way up to Mars, Soon it will be filled with parking cars” Lou Reed, Satellite of LoveIn his lecture at the end of The Martian, Mark Watney tells a theatre full of aspiring,...
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HEGEL AND NYAN CAT
As an April Fool’s joke in 2013, after eight years in existence, YouTube posted a video announcing that they would finally be choosing the ultimate winner of YouTube and that the fun was over. If only...
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Freud and Football Manager
Football Manager is a big deal. It has been a contributing factor in dozens of divorce cases. It has been the subject of two films and has had a best-selling book written about the lives it has...
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Getting Shirty: Cameron's Suit, Fresh Meat and Magical Realism
In a week where Corbyn was blasted by Cameron for the cheap appearance of his suit, it is interesting that a reference to the importance of one’s suit in a fictional Channel 4 TV programme has gone...
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Drones, Panopticism, and Ossuaries
Whilst not so very long ago the notion of the drone evoked a sense of foreboding not unlike that which accompanies the digestion of a Phillip K. Dick’s Minority Report, or a revisiting of Fritz Lang’s...
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EDA on Facebook
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The Politics of Christmas Trees in China and Germany
We have a Christmas tree. This might not sound special, but in Shenzhen, a city of 15 million, we might even be the only ones who do. Okay. It’s not really a tree.It’s two steel rods fitted together,...
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The Tunnock’s Trauma: Biscuits and Nationalism
Following a new advertising campaign in which tea cake giants Tunnock’s referred to their iconic Scottish snack as the ‘Great British Tea Cake’ and removed the Scottish Lion from its packaging,...
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How Soon is Now? Interpellation and Pop Misery
At the risk of over-simplification, the French Marxist Louis Althusser’s development of his theory of ‘interpellation’ is incredibly useful for understanding the extent to which our subjectivity—or the...
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Space Cowboy Capitalism: The Martian
“Satellite’s gone, way up to Mars, Soon it will be filled with parking cars” Lou Reed, Satellite of Love In his lecture at the end of The Martian, Mark Watney tells a theatre full of aspiring,...
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HEGEL AND NYAN CAT
As an April Fool’s joke in 2013, after eight years in existence, YouTube posted a video announcing that they would finally be choosing the ultimate winner of YouTube and that the fun was over. If only...
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