To Pee or Not to Pee: On the Politics of Cultural Appropriation
A reprint of Brian L. Ott’s essay on cultural appropriation.
Author: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
Hysterical Horowitz and The Culture of Television
by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
How might academics use David Horowitz’s new book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America in classrooms?
The “Popular Culture and Philosophy” Books and Philosophy: Philosophy, You’ve Officially Been Pimped
by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
Brian Ott takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the faux-wit and wisdom of the Popular Culture and Philosophy books.
Some Good News about the News: 5 Reasons Why ‘Fake’ News is Better than Fox ‘News’
by: Brian Ott / Colorado State University
There is no more destructive, deleterious, and dangerous institution in society today than the mainstream news media.
Symbolic Inversion: Git-R-Done!
by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
What is appealing about Jeff Foxworthy?
Set Your Cathode Rays to Stun(ning)
by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
I’m coming out … and I’m doing it on FLOW. I suppose that, in some ways, I’ve always known that I was a bit “different.”
To Pee or Not to Pee: On the Politics of Cultural Appropriation
by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
Although I appreciate the courtesy of my fellow drivers letting me know what pisses them off and whom they’d like to piss on, I can’t help but notice that they have adopted the same cultural icon to convey, at times, very divergent targets of distaste.
Contemporary Television Criticism: State of the Art or Stuck in the Past?
by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
The launch of FLOW provides a unique opportunity to reflect on the current state of television criticism…