Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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Culture
Reactionary reflexivity: Sealing the iron dome on media coverage of Gaza, Part 2
July 25, 2024Nowhere is this hardening of the once playful strategy of reflexivity more apparent than in corporate media news which instead of alternating between illusion and reflexivity is instead utterly delusional while sealing itself off in a...
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Culture
Reactionary reflexivity: Sealing the iron dome on media coverage of Gaza, Part 1
July 24, 2024Here media reflexivity and post-colonialism go hand in hand, with both operating to sustain Western power as that power is rapidly decaying and becoming increasingly irrelevant.
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Opinion
Macron’s neoliberalism moved country toward fascist abyss, leading to left’s surge in support
July 12, 2024A clear trend in the election was that the French are fed up with Macron’s neoliberal “reforms.”
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Opinion
‘Are you now or have you ever been against genocide?’: The new repression
May 23, 2024University administrators are being called before Congress, where they must betray their own students and pledge allegiance to a new wave of repression hitting academia.
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Culture
Dark stories for dark times: The 2024 crime novel
April 29, 2024This year the Quais du Polar in Lyon was marked by the intrusion into the spine of the novels by the real-world problems and catastrophes going on around the festival.
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Culture
‘The Sympathizer’: Not sympathetic enough
April 26, 2024HBO’s The Sympathizer, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, opens with a quote: “All wars are fought twice, once on the battlefield and the second time in memory.”
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Culture
Spring global TV series preview: The good, the bad and the ‘interesting’
April 25, 2024What follows are a few global series worth watching in the coming months, along with a few that, no matter when they arrive, would not be worth watching, and a few that have at least a...
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Culture
Streaming TV biz 2024: AI, decreasing quantity, declining quality
April 16, 2024The industry way of portraying these cutbacks is that there’s now an emphasis on “quality over quantity.” But when one observes what is coming down the pike it’s hard not to see these cutbacks as simply...
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