Full Description
This book demonstrates how pop culture examples can be used to demystify complex social theory. It provides tangible, metaphorical examples that shows how it is possible to "do philosophy" rather than subscribe to a theorist by showing that each theorist intersects and overlaps with others.
The book is embedded in the literary theory that tapping into background knowledge is a key step in helping people engage with new and difficult texts. It also acknowledges the important role of popular culture in developing comprehension.
Using a choose your own adventure structure, this book not only shows students of social theory how various theories can be applied but also reveals the multitude of possible pathways theory provides for comprehending society.
Contents
Chapter 1. Remixing Influencers: Academics reading and writing about philosophy andpop culture.- Chapter 2. When Violent Delights Meet Revolutionary Ends: Westworld and Marxism.- Chapter 3. The Circle of Hegemony.- Chapter 4. Where the Truth Lies: Peirce Through the Lens of The Third Man.- Chapter 5. Playing Language Games with BB8.- Chapter 6. The Years and Years of Late Modernity: Ulrich Beck and Risk Society.- Chapter 7. Orange is the New Other.- Chapter 8. "Down here, it's our time": Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems and The Goonies.- Chapter 9. Choose Your Driver: How Super Mario Kart helps explain Bourdieusian sociology.- Chapter 10. 5 Ways Hogwarts Helps Us Understand Foucault's 'Docile Bodies'.- Chapter 11. Power, Knowledge and Palpatine.- Chapter 12. A Thousand Gateaux: Rethinking Deleuze and Guttari through The Great British Bakeoff.- Chapter 13. "You pass the butter": The Messages of Media and Technology in Rick and Morty.- Chapter 14. Ordinary Care in Extraordinary Worlds: Murakami and decentered care in The windup bird chronicle.- Chapter 15. Distribution of the Sensible in Besźel and Ul Qoma: Reading Rancière alongside Miéville's The City & the City.- Chapter 16. Coming of Age: Towards a Theory of Critical Editorship.
