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Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University

To Pee or Not to Pee: On the Politics of Cultural Appropriation

March 27, 2008 Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University 4 comments


A reprint of Brian L. Ott’s essay on cultural appropriation.

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Hysterical Horowitz and The Culture of Television

March 10, 2006 Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University 8 comments

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?

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The “Popular Culture and Philosophy” Books and Philosophy: Philosophy, You’ve Officially Been Pimped

October 7, 2005 Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University 3 comments

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.

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Some Good News about the News: 5 Reasons Why ‘Fake’ News is Better than Fox ‘News’

June 24, 2005 Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University 10 comments

by: Brian Ott / Colorado State University
There is no more destructive, deleterious, and dangerous institution in society today than the mainstream news media.

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Symbolic Inversion: Git-R-Done!

April 15, 2005 Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University 17 comments

by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
What is appealing about Jeff Foxworthy?

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Set Your Cathode Rays to Stun(ning)

February 18, 2005 Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University 7 comments

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.”

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To Pee or Not to Pee: On the Politics of Cultural Appropriation

December 17, 2004 Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University 5 comments

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.

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Contemporary Television Criticism: State of the Art or Stuck in the Past?

October 22, 2004 Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University 8 comments

by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
The launch of FLOW provides a unique opportunity to reflect on the current state of television criticism…

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