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The year's work in nerds, wonks, and neocons /
"What happens when math nerds, band and theater geeks, goths, sci-fi fanatics, Young Republican debate poindexters, techies, Trekkies, D & D players, wallflowers, bookworms, and RPG players grow up? And what can they tell us about the life of the mind in the contemporary United States? With...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Year's work (Bloomington, Ind.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; THE YEAR'S WORK IN NERDS, WONKS, AND NEOCONS; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Working in and on Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons, This Year and to Come; PART I: THROUGH GLASSES, DORKILY; 1 Wonk Masculinity; 2 Surface Worship, Super-Public Intellectuals, and the Suspiciously Common Reader; 3 Stratigraphic Form: Science Fictions of the Present; 4 Obsession, Pathology, and Justice: Nerds, Bodies, Winsor McCay, and the 1893 Chicago Fair; 5 The Neoconservative Imagination.
- 6 Conservative and Internationalist: George S. Schuyler's Pulp Fiction and the Imperialism of the Oppressed; 7 The Turing Test and Other Love Songs; PART II: NATURE, NURTURE, NERD: WAYS OF BEING; 8 Sex and the Single Nerd: The Schizo Saga of Genes, Genius, and Finally Getting Some; 9 Nerds in Capes: Courtly Love and the Erotics of Medievalism; 10 Comic Book Kid; 11 Walking Simulators, #GamerGate, and the Gender of Wandering; 12 The Fan as Public Intellectual in "RaceFail '09"; 13 Autism, Nerds, and Insecurity; AFTERWORD: Professors without Chairs; INDEX.