Tag Archives: neoliberalism

‘Must-Watch’ TV and immaterial labor

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Dan Hassler-Forest

Sure, we’ve all bought into the ‘New Golden Age of TV’ rhetoric that has come to surround the past 15 years of prestige drama, esp. on premium cable channels like HBO. Yet television, which in my experience at least was mostly associated … Continue reading →

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Carl Freedman’s “The Age of Nixon”

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Dan Hassler-Forest

Between the acts, I’ve been reading Carl Freedman’s remarkable new book The Age of Nixon: A Study in Cultural Power, which was published earlier this year by Zero Books. Reading Freedman is a humbling experience, not only for the degree of … Continue reading →

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Ta-dah!

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Dan Hassler-Forest

Believe it or not, I finally finished my book. So here it is.

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Forgotten Masterpieces #4: The Candidate (1972)

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Dan Hassler-Forest

 With the GOP primaries at this point closely resembling some implausible spoof of the most ridiculous preconceptions about American politics, satirists are challenged more than ever to find new ways of topping an increasingly ridiculous reality. Stephen Colbert’s straight-faced skewering … Continue reading →

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100th Blog Post: Žižek and The Wire

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Dan Hassler-Forest

As WordPress helpfully informs me, this newest entry also happens to be my 100th blog post. And what more appropriate way to take note of this than to combine a link to Slavoj Žižek’s recent lecture on “The Wire or the … Continue reading →

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Breaking News: Greed is Still Good

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Dan Hassler-Forest

When Gordon Gekko proclaimed his “Greed is Good” mantra in the 1987 film Wall Street, the character portrayed so memorably by Michael Douglas was supposed to be the villain in a straightforward morality play on the evils of out-of-control capitalism. But … Continue reading →

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