For the Lulz Review of: It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump Into Officeby Dale BeranAll Points, 279 pp., $28.99
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For the Lulz Review of: It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump Into Officeby Dale BeranAll Points, 279 pp., $28.99
Opinion | Michael Hayden: The End of Intelligence “In this post-truth world, intelligence agencies are in the bunker with some unlikely mates: journalism, academia, the courts, law enforcement and science — all of which, like intelligence gathering, are evidence-based. Intelligence shares a broader duty with these other truth-tellers to preserve the commitment and ability of…
641: The Walls — This American Life — Overcast Compelling stories
《戰狼2》呈現了怎樣的中國想像？ 很多人說《戰狼2》模仿複製了好萊塢英雄電影的套路，但是我覺得不僅如此，重點在於模仿的是很老舊的好萊塢英雄電影套路。在國家意識形態上，自然無所謂新舊，然而，西方在當代多元文化主義與政治正確的風潮下，其實任何的文化生產套路都進行了許多的自我更新與修正，好比說，雖然復仇者聯盟裡頭最重要的角色都還是白人（男性），但始終會安插些黑人在旁協力、或者也會提高女性角色比例，另外神力女超人還會找個猶太裔演員來演等等。簡言之，對照來看，在《戰狼2》中，我看到的是一個完全沒有歷經上述修正（或包裝）的純粹的英雄電影。
Flag-waving Chinese blockbuster Wolf Warriors 2 smashes cinema records A flag-waving Chinese action film depicting the country’s soldiers saving war-ravaged Africans from western baddies has become China’s all-time top box-office earner, headlining a summer of patriotic cinematic fare. The wildly popular Wolf Warriors 2 boasts the ominous tagline “whoever offends China will be hunted down…
Neo-Nazis Expose the Internet’s Big Weakness Prince recommends that a legal framework be established for content restrictions, so that censorship decisions aren’t dominated by a handful of providers. This might make sense in an ideal world, but we should bear in mind that Donald Trump is president before suggesting that the government set rules for…
The Left-Overs: How Fascists Court the Post-Left | anarchistnews.org Much discussed article about fascism’s influence on anarchism.