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		<title>Gazing at Semenya</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mass-media - in images, video, and word - creates traveling spectacles and thus creates spectators in so many new ways and contexts. We consume the spectacle casually on our computers and television. Fascination with Semenya's genitals is all the story today, and surely will be for the next coming days. The assumption is that we have rights to this gaze, to look inside (prompting notions of biopower, no doubt) and outside her body (recalling Baartman's case). Why this comfortable assumption? Simply because we are, maybe, sports fans (though so few are actual track and field fans...not unimportant here!). Or because we can.]]></description>
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		<title>Ideologically Thomas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a little boy or girl, then you probably know about Thomas the Tank Engine. No, I don&#8217;t mean a character. And I don&#8217;t even mean a show. And, no, I don&#8217;t even mean a merchandise aisle at Target. I mean what becomes, so very easily, an entire way of being. What is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall-E&#8217;s Anxiety</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2008/08/wall-es-anxiety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw Wall-E a couple of weeks back. Unlike most, if not all of my friends who saw the movie, I didn&#8217;t like it very much. It was of course visually awesome and charming, for the most part, and told a decent enough story. It&#8217;s hard to &#8220;disagree&#8221; with the moral of the story, which, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Souljah</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2008/07/family-souljah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African-Americans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m officially a regular blogger again, starting today. I really have a small comment to make, but maybe one that has big implications. No matter, I guess, as only a couple of hundred will read this, though I feel compelled to say this because I care about things like reason. To start: I remember the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History, Tourism, and Pain</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2007/08/history-tourism-and-pain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was driving home and listening to one of my least favorite shows on National Public Radio &#8211; Marketplace &#8211; when they did a short feature on history-buff tourism in the United States. A nice break from endless musings on the meaning of housing markets, loan rates, control of inflation, etc. The sort of stuff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LeBro(w)n Politics</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2007/06/lebrown-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Charles P. Pierce at Slate.com wrote up some thoughts on LeBron James as &#8220;the next Michael Jordan.&#8221; Well-timed, of course, given his spectacular take-down of Detroit &#8211; honestly, it was a single-handed take-down &#8211; and the first visit to the NBA Finals starting last night. I don&#8217;t much disagree with the author [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Starter Wife! Oh my&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2007/05/the-starter-wife-oh-my/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2007/05/the-starter-wife-oh-my/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s Slate.com, Seth Stevenson writes up a soon-to-appear (as in tonight) miniseries on USA Network, entitled The Starter Wife. Fab write-up. One of my favorite lines, actually: &#8220;Having watched an advance DVD of the first three hours, I can offer a mini-review: two thumbs up. Up my own eye sockets.&#8221; That&#8217;s funny. The review, [...]]]></description>
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