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145Plastic Subjects: Plasticity, Time, and the Bling RingNew Political Science 44 (2): 265-282. 2022.This paper explores the events surrounding a string of robberies from the homes of young celebrities living in Los Angeles County by a group of teenagers referred to by the media as “The Bling Ring.” It argues that the group demonstrates the intersections of desire and materiality under the conditions of a culture driven by idolization of the celebrity, referring to the works of Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, and French collective Tiqqun. It further examines the events as a moment where subj…Read more
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11Heretic Gnosis: Education, Children, and the Problem of Knowing OtherwiseIn David W. Kupferman & Andrew Gibbons (eds.), Childhood, Science Fiction, and Pedagogy: Children Ex Machina, Springer Singapore. pp. 171-187. 2019.This chapter explores the differences between the epistemologies of adults and those of children, as is evident through the tension between the institution of the school and the figure of the child. Epistemological practices are inherently political, that is, there are political conditions that determine the way persons think, including the very idea of something being rational, or, in accordance with supposedly objective, universal and scientific principles. The school, I argue, is a place wher…Read more
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