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	<title>Theory . Culture &#187; spectacle</title>
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		<title>Gazing at Semenya</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2009/09/gazing-at-semenya/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2009/09/gazing-at-semenya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caster Semenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hottentot Venus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[masculinity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial representation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[spectacle]]></category>
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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>Money, Race</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2009/09/money-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African-Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annie Leibovitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MC Hammer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[is racism dead?]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theoryculture.com/?p=139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[But I'd ask you to consider this: what if Annie Leibovitz was black? Well, we don't have to imagine. There are plenty of cases of rich black people in the public eye, who get famous and rich and then go broke. We laugh at them. We sneer at them and talk about how stupid they were to blow millions and not plan well. They end up on VH-1. First, in Behind the Music. Second, on some degrading reality show.]]></description>
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		<title>Wall-E&#8217;s Anxiety</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2008/08/wall-es-anxiety/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2008/08/wall-es-anxiety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Althusser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pixar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall-E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slate.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spectacle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

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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>Craigsdesire.org</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2007/08/craigsdesireorg/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2007/08/craigsdesireorg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Craig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious conservatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slate.com]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was something exceptionally satisfying &#8211; in a sense wholly without honor, I&#8217;ll admit &#8211; about busting David Vitters for engaging in prostitution transactions. I found it amusing and a sort of just deserts. Now there&#8217;s this thing with Larry Craig. It&#8217;s the front story everywhere, so we all know a thing or two about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing Memory</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2007/08/outsourcing-memory/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2007/08/outsourcing-memory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African-Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colorblind racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[individualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[injustice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[memorials]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[multicultural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial representation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the sixties]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theorymyculture.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/outsourcing-memory/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It had to happen. The problem of outsourcing is very real for the United States, and puts us all in such a precarious political and social space. Politically, outsourcing is bad for us because it chooses cheaper labor at the expense of our national interest in reasonable (full?) employment for our fellow citizens. Socially, outsourcing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History, Tourism, and Pain</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2007/08/history-tourism-and-pain/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2007/08/history-tourism-and-pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African-Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama slavery apology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amistad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[injustice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[slavery apology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>
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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>Why Is Genarlow Wilson In Prison?</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2007/07/83/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2007/07/83/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African-Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genarlow Wilson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Debord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nifong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil disobedience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[injustice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[prison]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genarlow Wilson is in prison for having oral sex with a fifteen year-old girl when he was seventeen years-old. The sex was consensual. Those are the facts, not my interpretation. There was no rape charge. I hope everyone who reads this will spend some time at $3.60 in order to catch up on the details [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Up Tammy Faye</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2007/07/making-up-tammy-faye/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2007/07/making-up-tammy-faye/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Debord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Kissinger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tammy Faye Bakker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tammy Faye Messner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[injustice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theorymyculture.wordpress.com/2007/07/21/making-up-tammy-faye/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the purposes of this writing space, for me, is to draw out the real implications of what seem, initially, to be really rather mundane phenomena. Or to draw connections between what seem to be disconnected cultural obsessions &#8211; for example, my claim that immigration border-anxiety is at work in our periodic obsession with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sailing Memories</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2007/06/sailing-memories/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2007/06/sailing-memories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African-Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amistad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theorymyculture.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/sailing-memories/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What curious things we do with history, no? On the one hand, the United States (by no means an exception, here) is so much a culture of forgetting. We&#8217;d rather imagine the pain of the past to be from another world entirely (it&#8217;s not) than engage in a difficult conversation. On the other hand, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Withdrawing the Spectator; or, Chamique&#8217;s Retirement</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2007/06/withdrawing-the-spectator-or-chamiques-retirement/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2007/06/withdrawing-the-spectator-or-chamiques-retirement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chamique Holdsclaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foucault]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Debord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WNBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spectacle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's basketball]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theorymyculture.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/withdrawing-the-spectator-or-chamiques-retirement/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s my obsession in this writing space: the gap between the spectacular play of images and the material reality of those images. It&#8217;s actually too easy. We&#8217;ve really lost that connection, or, at the very least, we&#8217;ve decided that that connection can be set aside without explanation. Sports is an exemplary site, but one shaded [...]]]></description>
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