Ted Gournelos
Biographic Data
| ID | 208206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ted Gournelos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ted |
| FAMILY NAME | Gournelos |
| SIGNATURE | GOURNELOS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maryville University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1708-8531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Digital myopia
Popular Culture and the Future of Politics
Popular Culture and the Future of Politics: Cultural Studies and the Tao of South Park argues that progressives should conceive the connections between media, policy, and culture beyond the limits of 'politics' and 'news.' With sustained analyses of groundbreaking contemporary examples of what has become known as 'convergence culture,' Ted Gournelos brings together a wide range of media without sacrificing depth. His examples, such as South Park,…
Prelude Tactics of Oppositional Culture
Blasphemous Allusion
Through an examination of narrative developments in South Park and a deeper textual analysis of two of the television show's episodes in particular, this article discusses the ramifications of anarchic and aggressive critiques of reified gender identity in popular culture. It draws primarily on Haraway and Butler, engaging gender precisely through its performative or blasphemous potential for oppositional culture. The episodes discussed demonstra…
Puppets, Slaves, and Sex Changes
Disconnected neither from close textual analysis nor socially engaged theory, this article shows how what can be called “responsive” levels of political discourse are mobilized to react and propose alternatives to dominant ideology. Through an analysis of a character's changing sexuality in the television show South Park, it demonstrates how cultural texts can act discursively within the wider framework of contemporary politics. Over the course o…
Othering the Self
At a time when American politics has reached an almost uncanny level of absurdity in its self-contradictions, nationalistic appeals, and stunning disregard for large majorities of the population, it becomes increasingly necessary to look for clues as to why various public spheres speak and exist and how those interested in change can locate and infiltrate nodes of instability or change. Rhetoric surrounding the suburbs in high and popular culture…
In Defense of Theory as Political Critique
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire Wendy Brown Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2006 282 pp., ISBN 0691126542, $29.95 Regulating Aversion, Wendy Brown's late
Culture and conflict in the European Union
This paper examines the role that culture, the information society, and media play in forming stable and productive communities. Through a theory of culture defined by conflict and play, it examines the history of Europe as a concept, issues of continental identity, and the impact/intent of European Union policy initiatives regarding culture and media. It suggests that although some EU policy approaches are well designed, there is a great deal of…
South Park and Philosophy
Puppets, Slaves, and Sex Changes
Disconnected neither from close textual analysis nor socially engaged theory, this article shows how what can be called “responsive” levels of political discourse are mobilized to react and propose alternatives to dominant ideology. Through an analysis of a character's changing sexuality in the television show South Park, it demonstrates how cultural texts can act discursively within the wider framework of contemporary politics. Over the course o…
Blasphemous Allusion
Through an examination of narrative developments in South Park and a deeper textual analysis of two of the television show's episodes in particular, this article discusses the ramifications of anarchic and aggressive critiques of reified gender identity in popular culture. It draws primarily on Haraway and Butler, engaging gender precisely through its performative or blasphemous potential for oppositional culture. The episodes discussed demonstra…
Culture and conflict in the European Union
This paper examines the role that culture, the information society, and media play in forming stable and productive communities. Through a theory of culture defined by conflict and play, it examines the history of Europe as a concept, issues of continental identity, and the impact/intent of European Union policy initiatives regarding culture and media. It suggests that although some EU policy approaches are well designed, there is a great deal of…
South Park and Philosophy
Popular Culture and the Future of Politics
Popular Culture and the Future of Politics: Cultural Studies and the Tao of South Park argues that progressives should conceive the connections between media, policy, and culture beyond the limits of 'politics' and 'news.' With sustained analyses of groundbreaking contemporary examples of what has become known as 'convergence culture,' Ted Gournelos brings together a wide range of media without sacrificing depth. His examples, such as South Park,…
Prelude Tactics of Oppositional Culture
Blasphemous Allusion
Through an examination of narrative developments in South Park and a deeper textual analysis of two of the television show's episodes in particular, this article discusses the ramifications of anarchic and aggressive critiques of reified gender identity in popular culture. It draws primarily on Haraway and Butler, engaging gender precisely through its performative or blasphemous potential for oppositional culture. The episodes discussed demonstra…
Puppets, Slaves, and Sex Changes
Disconnected neither from close textual analysis nor socially engaged theory, this article shows how what can be called “responsive” levels of political discourse are mobilized to react and propose alternatives to dominant ideology. Through an analysis of a character's changing sexuality in the television show South Park, it demonstrates how cultural texts can act discursively within the wider framework of contemporary politics. Over the course o…
Othering the Self
At a time when American politics has reached an almost uncanny level of absurdity in its self-contradictions, nationalistic appeals, and stunning disregard for large majorities of the population, it becomes increasingly necessary to look for clues as to why various public spheres speak and exist and how those interested in change can locate and infiltrate nodes of instability or change. Rhetoric surrounding the suburbs in high and popular culture…
In Defense of Theory as Political Critique
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire Wendy Brown Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2006 282 pp., ISBN 0691126542, $29.95 Regulating Aversion, Wendy Brown's late
Digital myopia
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Identity (music (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)