Tag Archives: Counter-culture

Written on the Body: Difference and Transgression

My paper for the Cultural Production and Negotiation of Borders conference was accepted today. The abstract is below.
Our bodies define a border between ourselves and the world around us. However we might feel about our body, it is what we present to the world. Victoria L. Blum in her book Flesh Wounds discusses how bodies […]

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Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style

Hebdige’s classic work on subculture shows us much about how those commonly referred to as the dominated, do in fact resist this domination in complex ways.

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Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

One of the classic Dick novels, this is a story about a police officer investigating himself in order to unravel a drug cartel. Videotaping himself for later screening, the novel centres on sliding identities and the stress of acting as more than one person. The novel is as paranoid and excellent as only Dick can […]

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