Wittgenstein and Popular Culture Kevin O'Brien

Wittgenstein and Popular Culture Kevin O'BrienThis volume makes an incisive contribution to the field of philosophy of culture in outlining the potential of Wittgensteins philosophy for the study of popular culture, focusing on concrete examples: from detective fiction and comics, to TV series and football fandom.

of ideals and individuals

Brings into mutual dialogue several existing strands of the study of pain and embodied violence

New York-based filmmaker

Should the IRA’s claim to belligerent status be recognised

useful to historians

gaze and more  – have in the practice of video arts

in a youth jail and with street-involved youth

and as a personal form of expression by industry professionals

Provides a more comprehensive account of internment and assesses previously unexplored aspects of its use

institution

This is the first comprehensive investigation of British television police series from 1955 to the present

Beyond Representation poses the question as to whether over the last thirty years there have been signs of ‘progress’/’progressiveness’ in the representation of ‘marginalised’ or subaltern identity categories