Category: Blog Post 8 (due Friday Nov 23 by 5 PM)
Week 11: The Farce of Politics (26 November)
Karl Marx, “Chapter 1” The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch01.htm
Theodor Adorno, “Juvenal’s Error,” Minima Moralia, trans. Jephcott (London: Verso, 2005), 209-212.
Michel Foucault, Excerpt from Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France (New York: Verso, 2003), 11-13.
Emily Nussbaum, “How Jokes Won the Election” The New Yorker (23/1/2017):
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/23/how-jokes-won-the-election
Brian Logan, “Arrest that comedian! How satire could swing the UK election,” (2/6/17):
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/jun/02/arrest-that-comedian-how-satire-couldswing-
the-uk-election
Ned Resnikoff, “We’re living in The Thick of It,” The Baffler (24/7/2017):
https://thebaffler.com/latest/thick-of-it-resnikoff
How Tina Fey used SNL to spread the Truth- Taylor Holliday
Can comedy change anything? Brian Logan and Chris Rock (Tony blog 8)
From Waldo to Trump: Comedy’s Political Power
“South Park continues the on path of rebuttal” by Jessy Stanley
‘South Park’ and the Validity of Satire (Stewart Clark)
Parks and Recreation and the Political Climate
The farce of french politics revisited
