TheWiredElection2016

The Wired Election, Part 1: “This America, Man.”

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, Democracy, Philosophy, Politics, Public Philosophy, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive, TheWiredElection2016, Women and Gender Issues 0 Comments

There are certain works of art in every medium– literature, theater, photography, sculpture, film, painting, music, et al.– that somehow manage, through an impossible-to-determinately-calculate alchemical combination of human creativity, the raw materials of Nature, and some other mysterious thing we might generically point toward and say “meaning” or “truth,” to reach beyond the mere representation…

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The Wired Election, Part 2: “Follow The Money”

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Bernie Sanders, Democracy, Hillary Clinton, Philosophy, Politics, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, RMWMTMBM Archive, TheWiredElection2016, Women and Gender Issues 0 Comments

[This is the second installment of my series The Wired Election, employing insights gained from HBO television series The Wire to interpret 2016 Presidential election campaign events, persons and states of affair. The cheese stands alone.] Like many of my fellow web-citizens, I found myself doing a number of dramatic double-takes on Wednesday morning as I watched “news”-casters review…

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The Wired Election, Part 3: “A Man Got To Have A Code.”

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Democracy, Philosophy, Politics, Public Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, TheWiredElection2016 0 Comments

[This is the third installment of my series The Wired Election, employing insights gained from HBO television series The Wire to interpret 2016 Presidential election campaign events, persons and states of affair. The cheese stands alone.]

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