Joseph Natoli has written about postmodernity, popular culture and politics in numerous books and articles. His first e-book, Occupying Here & Now: The New Class Warfare (January 2012), is available on Amazon Kindle. Links to all his writing can be found at www.josephnatoli.com
Features
Thursday, February 23 2012
Charles Dickens 200: Great Expectations: Bright Hope and Dark Resignation
Where we are now, in 2012, is on a darker plain especially for the large "Underclass". Perhaps Dickens can light our way?
Tuesday, February 7 2012
Mitt Romney Can Reside at Today's Proverbial 'Downton Abbey'... Newt Gingrich Cannot
Downton Abbey reveals not only the play of chance that often confounds choice, but the power of social class to confine choice within established boundaries -- and we're comfortable with that.
Friday, October 8 2010
To Gaga Is to Dada
To Gaga the world is to delete any attachment with any part of history, including its narratives of romance. In a state of Gaga one is proudly detached from any past meaning.
Friday, April 9 2010
Sons of Anarchy: Rebels and Bad Subjects with a Cause?
Our present 'social grid' -- the stage Sons of Anarchy plays upon – is one that most on the planet have fallen through; life outside of that grid may offer some hope, some new regime.
Friday, March 5 2010
Autopsy TV
Autopsy entertainment makes painfully clear that no amount of Twitter and Prozac, Friending and Unfriending, Outplacement and Outsourcing, Bail Outs and Stimulus, Surges and Drones, Mii and Wii, Nunchuck and Netois can save us.
Reviews
Friday, December 16 2011
'Misfits': Rebels With Too Many Causes
Misfits delivers a steady barrage of zaniness, a punk-like anarchy, a good sampling of cockney low farce, as well as mayhem and blood.
Friday, November 4 2011
'Fringe': Classic Realism in a Postmodern Space
With "Novation", Fringe conjures a kind of archetypal nightmare touch: you return to father and lover and they don’t know you; no one knows you.
