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Great question!
That is a great question. I cannot speak to any specific Bernie ads, but since Ferguson where has been a visible resurgence of Afro-Arab solidarity around issues of racial oppression and empire. I say resurgence because this predates the twentieth century ... -
Re: "Talk Bernie to Me": Political (and Sexual) Authority in an Unofficial Bernie Sanders Campaign Song
Political Chemistry
Hi Dana, Thank you for kicking us off on such an interesting note. There is so much talk about "the enthusiasm gap" between Hillary and Bernie in this election, and the video's mashing of sexual desire and politics made me wonder what would ... -
Are all memes created equally cool?
Hi Ben, Thank you for this informative post! I have two comments/questions. 1) While browsing the Bernie Sanders Dank Meme Stash (BSDMS), I noticed a lot of women would make Bernie or Hillary? memes on make-up practices and products, like comparing fancy ... -
White Male Off Center?
Hi Melissa, Thank you for this thoughtful piece! The push to consolidate the neoliberal center in this election has been extremely powerful. What is weird to me is how the purported white male-ness of Sanders supporters operates as a part of this rhetoric ... -
Sexuality and Agency
Hi Meagan, Thank you for bringing our attention to the complex connections between gender, sexuality, and conspiracy theorizing. I also really appreciated the intersections you identify between mass culture and vernacular culture-- the "convergence c ... -
Scandalous Conspiracies
Hi Jason, What a provocative post! And what insightful commentary, Felix. I am curious about the aside about "Americans" as daft, conspiratorial people in the video. It seems as if civilizational Others are as often accused of being conspiracy-t ... -
What If
"Nothing holds these twenty beliefs together except that someone at some point has ridiculed them." In addition to marking the similarities between discourse about conspiracy theories and the discourse of conspiracy theorists, as Felix astutely ... -
Turkish Islamophobia
Hi Felix, Thank you so much for your comment! I realize this stuff is weird; I think its foreignness to Westerners is both fascinating and telling in terms of how much the West/Islam binary has structured American and European political thought. Let me an ...