#douglas kellner

¿Estamos inmersos en un entorno mediático que moldea profundamente nuestra percepción de la realidad?

Kolektif – Medya, İdeoloji ve Hegemonya (2025)

“Truth in the postmodern register, by contrast, is multiple, constructed, perspectival, and not subject to an indubitable perception, absolute grounding, or certainty. The show thus undercuts the series' modernist quest for truth by suggesting that perhaps "the truth is out there," but it is hidden under multiple, dramatically conflicting interpretations and perspectives.”

While the reactionary horror genre shows its monsters as inexplicable, as forces of nature, as if nature itself were evil, threatening, and in need of control and domination, The X-Files often shows monstrosity to be a creation of social forces, of societal evils, and not incomprehensible forces of nature.

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The Growth of South African Comics

A politics of identity helps to foster the development of political and cultural identities and solidarity through struggling against oppression and for a more just and humane society. There are, of course, limitations to a postmodern politics of identity and difference. Differences can become reified and fetishized, and can produce rigid barriers between individuals and groups, leading to a replication of special interest group politics. Common interests can be obscured in favour of heterogeneity, difference, and fragmentation that ultimately buttresses white male and capitalist domination. Politics also can be redefined into a harmless politics of style and personal identity that leaves relations of domination intact and unchallenged. In addition, a politics of identity can foster nationalism and chauvinism, leading individuals to believe that their groups and subject positions are superior to others....We find pure postmodern theory without a strong dose of feminism or Marxism to be incapable of addressing concrete political problems. Postmodern theory in its more extreme forms tends to be exactly what it accuses modern theory of being: one-sided, reductionist, essentializing, excessively prohibitive, and politically disabling.