Click here for a special offer. In some bizarre synchronicity, the human death took place the same night as the terminal performance, and the news and attendant images were seeping into the national image stream within seconds. All the memorial clips were ready, the real and figurative obituaries prepared long in advance. In this respect, the 21st century is likely to resemble the 20th.
Popular culture is the very oxygen of our collective life.
It glues together affinities. It saturates everyday conversation. It overlaps with politics. It circulates the materials with which people splice together identities. My niche, your niche.