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Steven Lukes, The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat

This is a book that I know I don’t fully understand, but it really doesn’t matter. The reason I don’t understand it, is the fact that it deals extensively with philosophy, primarily moral and political. This is a subject that I only have cursory knowledge of, but the novel is still fabulously funny.

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The Truth of the Word, the Falsity of the Image: Transmetropolitan’s critique of the society of the spectacle

In this paper, I investigate the binary opposition, which is instated between words as true and images as false in Warren Ellis and Darick Roberts’ Transmetropolitan series, which deals heavily with the notion of truth in a dystopic future. The series’ protagonist Spider Jerusalem is a journalist trying to show a world that doesn’t care [...]

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