Big tip of the hat to Paul, as always, for his editing.
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Showing posts with label Bethenny Frankel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bethenny Frankel. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
New Videocast: A Review of The Real Housewives of New York City
In this new episode I discuss the show The Real Housewives of New York City and how it has managed to be a success with different age groups. The main point I pursue is that at the core of the show's success lies the concept of marketability of sociality. By marketing their daily life experiencing, while sporting their own aspiring brands, the women manage to enter the world of quotidianity most naturally.
Big tip of the hat to Paul, as always, for his editing.
Big tip of the hat to Paul, as always, for his editing.
Friday, May 8, 2009
New Videocast: Of Entertainment, Michael Chabon, and Michel Foucault
In this new episode of Gendering the Media with Brikena Ribaj, I discuss the concept of entertainment as Michael Chabon treats it in his recent book Maps and Legends as well as Michel Foucault's treatment of heterotopias.
I mention reality TV, modernity, Wagner, Verdi, and, of course, Franz Ferdinand.
The main question I raise is: What is a heterotopia?
You can view this videocast here.
Incidentally, one of the sentences I quote from Chabon's latest book says the following about entertainment:
"Entertainment is junk and too much junk is bad for you. Bad for your heart, your arteries, your soul."
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
What I'm Reading
Edward Skidelsky's Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture is definitely worthy of attention.
Ernst Cassirer, a German-Jewish philosopher (1874-1945), is one of the leading intellectuals of the Weimar period. His contributions to the liberal-idealist tradition are definitely worthy of more time and attention. I recommend.
Bethenny Frankel's Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting is an amusing and at times bizarre read. I have long maintained that dieting is rarely about the waist size and Frankel seems to support the same idea. In a roundabout way which is what makes her book, well, funny.
I find Frankel's book to be providing nothing new on the topic. What makes her book entertaining however, is how she explains that moderation is really where it's at.
William Cohan's House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street is an interesting 'reading' of the mess on Wall Street and how it it reached the point of break. This is an easy read and those who are not in the field of finance and economics should have no trouble following along. The book mostly delineates the far-reaching effects of unbridled greed. Definitely worthy a read.
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