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" The year's work in nerds, wonks, and neocons / "
edited by Jonathan P. Eburne & Benjamin Schreier.
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BL
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876961
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The year's work in nerds, wonks, and neocons /\ edited by Jonathan P. Eburne Benjamin Schreier.
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Bloomington, Indiana :: Indiana University Press,, [2017]
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The year's work: studies in fan culture and cultural theory
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1 online resource (x, 366 pages)
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0253026180
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0253026822
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9780253026828
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Cover; THE YEAR'S WORK IN NERDS, WONKS, AND NEOCONS; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Working in and on Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons, This Year and to Come; PART I: THROUGH GLASSES, DORKILY; 1 Wonk Masculinity; 2 Surface Worship, Super-Public Intellectuals, and the Suspiciously Common Reader; 3 Stratigraphic Form: Science Fictions of the Present; 4 Obsession, Pathology, and Justice: Nerds, Bodies, Winsor McCay, and the 1893 Chicago Fair; 5 The Neoconservative Imagination.
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6 Conservative and Internationalist: George S. Schuyler's Pulp Fiction and the Imperialism of the Oppressed; 7 The Turing Test and Other Love Songs; PART II: NATURE, NURTURE, NERD: WAYS OF BEING; 8 Sex and the Single Nerd: The Schizo Saga of Genes, Genius, and Finally Getting Some; 9 Nerds in Capes: Courtly Love and the Erotics of Medievalism; 10 Comic Book Kid; 11 Walking Simulators, #GamerGate, and the Gender of Wandering; 12 The Fan as Public Intellectual in "RaceFail '09"; 13 Autism, Nerds, and Insecurity; AFTERWORD: Professors without Chairs; INDEX.
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"What happens when math nerds, band and theater geeks, goths, sci-fi fanatics, Young Republican debate poindexters, techies, Trekkies, D & D players, wallflowers, bookworms, and RPG players grow up? And what can they tell us about the life of the mind in the contemporary United States? With #GamerGate in the national news, shows like The Big Bang Theory on ever-increasing numbers of screens, and Peter Orzsag and Paul Ryan on magazine covers, it is clear that nerds, policy wonks, and neoconservatives play a major role in today's popular culture in America. The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons delves into subcultures of intellectual history to explore their influence on contemporary American intellectual life. Not limiting themselves to describing how individuals are depicted, the authors consider the intellectual endeavors these depictions have come to represent, exploring many models and practices of learnedness, reflection, knowledge production, and opinion in the contemporary world. As teachers, researchers, and university scholars continue to struggle for mainstream visibility, this book illuminates the other forms of intellectual excitement that have emerged alongside them and found ways to survive and even thrive in the face of dismissal or contempt."--Provided by publisher.
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Intellectuals-- United States-- 21st century.
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Popular culture-- United States-- 21st century.
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Stereotypes (Social psychology)-- United States-- 21st century.
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Popular Culture.
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Stereotyping.
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Intellectual life.
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Intellectuals.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Film Video-- History Criticism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.
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Popular culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.
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Stereotypes (Social psychology)
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United States, Intellectual life, 21st century.
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United States.
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United States.
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306.0973/0905
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E169.12.Y33 2017e
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Eburne, Jonathan P., (Jonathan Paul)
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Schreier, Benjamin
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