"Taking" Bad: a quick post on what I see as a pointless and frustrating tension between different, equally essential schools of critical thought.http://agameofme.tumblr.com/post/175866880277/taking-bad …
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But really you should read Ebiri's piece. It's really insightful, and builds up to a knockout kicker.https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/07/18/10-years-later-the-dark-knight-and-its-vision-of-guilt-still-resonate/ …
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A lot of us on the left tend toward left readings of stuff we like. Because we enjoy it, we want to believe that its cultural impact is one of supporting the values that we support, and we interpret it this way, even if its cultural impact is quite the opposite, which it often is
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I feel like I should tell you that I kept changing that sentence from "more for...than for" to "as much for...as for" and back, repeatedly before I filed. I decided to stick with the "more for" formulation to try and express how pathological that kind of behavior had become.
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That definitely makes sense. Thanks for your comment, I appreciate it. And seriously, great piece.
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