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After surviving the jihadi terrorist attack on journalists and cartoonists of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, journalist Philippe Lançon wrote an extensive book on the experience of being a victim of the assault and a patient in two Parisian hospitals for many months. The period of recovering and the reconstruction of his face also was one of transformation, contemplation and reading. We could consider his autobiographical text an ‘journal de deuil’ [journal of grief] as Le Monde des Livres claimed, a ‘grand livre de littérature’, and an account of convalescence: the narrator must undergo reconstructive surgery, is silenced for months and communicates via a whiteboard. The book, entitled Le Lambeau [the shred] (2018) was published by Gallimard, and translated in English as Disturbance, Surviving Charlie Hebdo (2019). In the Dutch translation, De Flard, the book is categorised as ‘novel’ [roman]. Specific (sub)titles and categorisations, obviously, function as paratext suggesting the context in which the book could be read and interpreted. For anglophone readers the political (spectacle) context is underlined – even though only one chapter of the book describes the real atrocious scene of violence –, in the Netherlands the novel genre of the text is brought to the fore, underlining the aesthetic space of literature in which contrasting ideas can be made productive within one paragraph. The novelist is, according to Milan Kundera ‘an explorer feeling his way in an effort to reveal some unknown aspect of existence. He is fascinated not by his voice but by a form he is seeking, and only those forms that meet the demands of his dream become part of his work’ (Kundera, 1988, p. 69). Lançon’s novel takes the massacre as starting point and investigates the fragility and resilience of a French citizen recovering with the help of the literary canon.
How to read and respond to such a text, is a question that not many students will ask. For most of them, reading is a practice of describing the plot, interpreting words and metaphors, while keeping the main focus on self-recognition: on identifying oneself in the text. My observation, based on the many university courses that I developed over the years, is that students often lack the skill of engaging in a hermeneutic dialogue, as the capability of bringing up various questions in response to the text and the author position and, subsequently, formulating various answers. Most students do not have knowledge on how different practices of reading can be instigated and performed. Therefore, in what follows, I will describe several reading strategies – most of them related to research paradigms within humanities research – that could be used in core text courses, and, successively, I will perform a reading of Lançon’s text. My main claim is that students need lessons in reading, to become aware of different strategies, which, like different methodologies, can put a specific light on the textual material. Reading is an ongoing transformative process that invites responsiveness. Encouraging students in their reading is, I argue, a strong impetus to creative thinking.
Most of our students learned how to read at around six years of age, and do not ponder much about the wonderful skill that they can perform since this early age for the rest of their lives. Most of us, in fact, learned to close read at secondary school, being trained in recognizing narrator perspectives, themes and metaphors, and time and place within texts. Practicing reading at university indeed mostly implies close reading, inviting students to analyze and describe the composition (structure) and the plot (events, story line) of the narrative. After analysis and description follows interpretation, implying that the meaning of the story is explained (adjusted so to say to the textual architecture). Close reading, as it was made famous by the New Critics in the 20th century was a reaction on both the intentional fallacy (the meaning of the text was seen as the message of the author) and the affective fallacy (the meaning of the text was taken as the subjective and impressionist response of the reader). The New Critics stimulated the examination of form (syntaxis and semantics) and content in their entanglement (Luxemburg et al., 1981, p. 66). Close reading encourages conscious attention to the composition and coherence of the text: readers become aware that every detail has relevance, even if it is insignificant (Barthes, 1986, pp. 141-49). In this insignificance of details the text underlines its fictional status: this is not the ‘real’ reality but a representation. Close reading was (and still is) the practice that most historians of literature performed for many decades; it is done in silence, which gives the act of reading a sphere of intimacy.
In the 1970s and 1980s the practice of close reading was criticized by post-structuralist scholars (such as Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, or Barbara Johnson) who argued that a literary text is an associative construction based on specific linguistic and philosophical patterns, echoes and ideas that do not necessarily represent a specific contextual reality. Deconstructive reading implies that various intertextual traces in a text are brought to the fore and stimulate thinking and writing. The main difference with close reading is that the idea of a correct (formal or contextual) reading of a text is left behind: the reading practice is associative, dynamic and never closed off. The assertiveness of the reader is the drive of the reading process. The reader becomes a writer herself.
Distant reading is another reaction on close reading and has become popular in the context of digital humanities. This reading strategy is computer-assisted and based on the analyses of keywords and networks. A digital corpus of literary texts is used for the reading processes. Franco Moretti’s pivotal work on the bourgeois in literature and history demonstrates how specific words, grammar, and concepts appear in texts of a certain era, and how these terms and styles relate to changing ideas and societal hegemonic structures. In Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, for instance, the use of past gerund, past tense, and infinitival clauses embodies an idea of temporality…that excludes symmetry and hence also the stability…that proceeds it.…[This is] the style of the useful. Of Prose. Of the capitalist spirit. Of modern progress (Moretti, 2013, pp. 55-56). In Defoe’s writing bourgeois culture finds expression. Distant reading builds an interpretation by comparing many text segments and data, and constructing an analysis based on different textual elements.
Symptomatic reading is a strategy of reading that is inspired by philosopher Gilles Deleuze who considered literary authors as the analysts of contemporary cultures, as clinicians who diagnose our world. The rationale is that a literary text is not about the memories or experiences of one single person, but is about the discovery of ‘the power of an impersonal’, of ‘a singularity’(Deleuze, 1998, p. 3). What we can learn from reading fiction, is the opposite of what we learn from doing empirical science: the latter is about facts and concrete experiences, literary fiction is about singularity (Attridge, 2004) and open-endedness. Reading literature challenges the reader in getting beyond the empirically based argument to enter a sphere of string figures (Haraway, 2016), creativity, and becoming. As such, literature offers knowledge on the world we live in, it helps us to understand behaviour and experiences, it invites us to acknowledge the perspectives of others.
Many scholars have come up with arguments against symptomatic reading, for instance Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus in a 2009 contribution to a special issue of Representations. Best and Marcus coined the term surface reading, opposing symptomatic reading as a mode of interpretation that assumes that a text’s truest meaning lies in what it does not say. Symptomatic reading has gone too deep while being drenched in psychoanalysis and Marxism. The symptomatic reader makes a political point, and as such disregards what a text manifestly says. Surface reading in contrast implies materiality, the intricate verbal structure of literary language, literal meaning, the location of patterns that exist within and across texts, and the surface as an affective and ethical stance (Apter et al., 2009). Breaking down the often too simplifying dichotomy between symptomatic and surface, we could underline that surface is an extension of close reading, and that symptomatic reading broadens the horizon of texts while weaving them in a global cultural context.
In a world of complex issues of globalisation, climate change, inequality and migration, we could go one step further and propose yet another strategy of reading, focussing on texts not as existing, bounded, stable entities but as entanglements of more-than-human relationships (Bellingham, 2022). This idea of reading is based on the conception of texts that intra-act through one another, while enacting new patterns of engagement and exclusion (Barad, 2010). Diffractive reading is in line with deconstructive reading as it is based on traces and rhizomatic connections, while putting more emphasis on texts and textuality not as human communication but as forms of knowledge beyond the human.
This collection of reading strategies is not final – we could add other strategies as well – but aims at demonstrating how various paradigms influence the practices of reading. To me as a teacher it is not important to steer my students in their reading, to make them choose to use one or the other method, but to raise awareness of what they do as they read and why. Combinations of strategies are helpful, but always in relation to the question: what text am I reading and why does the text matter to me here and now? Lessons in reading are relevant in university education and certainly so in a humanities and social sciences curriculum.
Let’s go back to Lançon’s chronicle on the Charlie Hebdo carnage and its aftermath, and discuss two of the reading strategies. Le Lambeau was written after the attack in January 2015 and published in 2018. The book ends when the protagonist, Philippe Lançon, is in New York, ten months after the attack, and hears about the massacre in the Bataclan theatre at which 130 people died. This ‘Epilogue’ after twenty chapters in which Philippe’s convalescence was central, marks the political reference of the text: radical Islamist terrorism is something that is real and that continues in France and Europe. The contingency of being at a certain place at the wrong moment (be it a theatre, metro, boulevard, or railway station) makes us aware of the fragility of late modern society.
In a close reading of the text, it becomes clear that the composition is plain while the author, narrator and protagonist are the same: Philippe, a journalist at Charlie Hebdo and Liberation, can be identified as one of the real historical victims of the assault. In twenty chapters spreading in time over more or less ten months, and in place over two specific hospitals in Paris (La Salpêtrière and Les Invalides), we read how Philippe recovers but transforms as well. We follow his intimate physical problems: he cannot speak nor eat and drink because of the catheter, his bandages get wet while his jaw is wrapped-up, he is depending on others for his everyday care. At some points he feels as if exiled from his own life. We also realise how he does not think much or aggressively about the two assessors. Most of the description is factual and precise, also in the moment of the attack, when the protagonist experiences himself as doubled: ‘The voice of the man I still was said to me: “Hmm, we’ve been hit in the hand. But we don’t feel anything.” We were two, he and I, he who was beneath me, more exactly, and I levitating above, and he addressed me from below, using the first-person plural’ (Lançon, 2019, chapt. 5). Later in the period of recovery, Philippe becomes literally a double, named Monsieur Tarbes, when in the military hospital he has to use a nickname: ‘In Les Invalides, I was never called by any other name. Very soon, Monsieur Tarbes was living his own life within these walls from the classical age … he was neither Philippe Lançon nor a pseudonym of Philippe Lançon. He was a heteronym’ (Lançon, 2019, chapt. 18).
The close reading – as the text’s content and form - can be extended by a deconstructive reading that underlines the diary of grief as a literary journal. Philippe conveys that he does not read much (new) literature during his hospital stay, but thinks about literary authors and texts very often. In fact, there are only three texts that he rereads: M. Proust, A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, in particular the scene of the passing away of the grandmother, Franz Kafka’s Letters to Milena (Kafka suffering of tuberculosis) and Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg (specifically the scene of the death of Joachim Ziemsen). The latter is the literary text mentioned most by Lançon since the Alpine sanatorium as hermetic world seems close to both Parisian hospitals. One passage from Mann, in which Joachim explains what time in the sanatorium means, is read by Philippe every morning and he then realises that ‘Joachim and Hans had become much closer to me, more intimate, than the people who, entering here … came from ‘the world below’ and quickly returned to it.…Like Joachim, like Hans Gastorp at the end of a few hundred pages, I had the sensation that I would never leave and that not leaving was going to provide me, if it was possible, with a little wisdom. I had to leave neither the hospital nor the book, the latter being the instruction manual of the former’ (Lançon, 2019, chapt. 16). Mann rather than Proust demonstrates that time is not regained but interrupted, that reading is the way to live and survive. And that the bourgeois, well-educated man holds on to the literary canon and the European culture.
The period of being outside of the world, staying in the cocoon that convalescence is, implies a period of fiction in which there is freedom. The patient is the victim but also still the writer and journalist: ‘When I was writing in bed, with three fingers, then five, then seven, with my jawbone full of holes and then reconstituted, with or without the ability to speak, I wasn’t the patient I was describing; I was a man who was revealing that patient by observing him, and who was recounting his story with a good will and pleasure that he hoped to share, I was becoming a fiction. It was reality, it was absurd, and I was free’ (Lançon, 2019, chapt. 16). It is in writing and reading that self-esteem survives and counters the violence and stupidity. The lesson learned here is that reading and writing open a space of fiction that in challenging thinking gives freedom. Echoing Kundera, we could say that the novel explores not reality but existence.
There are various ways to read a literary text and students could be trained more in applying different strategies in different contexts. The point of reading is not to establish the ultimate or final meaning of a text, but to engage in a conversation: why does a (non)fictional text like this one matter to me, how can I entangle, resist, affirm and reconstruct it? Lançon’s account reminds us of the power of the novel in the context of violent attacks that are part of our recent history. In 1989 Salman Rushdie became victim of a fatwa, and Philippe reminds this in a crucial passage in his text in which he accuses his own perpetrators: ‘When Salman Rushdie became the victim of Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa, the writer V.S Naipaul refused to support him, on the grounds that the fatwa was, after all, only an extreme form of literary criticism … any censorship is indeed an extreme, paranoid form of criticism. The most extreme form could be exercised only by ignorant or illiterate people, that was how things were, and that was exactly what had just happened: we had been the victims of the most efficient censors, those who liquidate everything without having read anything’ (Lançon, 2019, chapt. 5). The charge against the perpetrators is that they censored satire without knowing about the literary culture, about the power of imagination, subversiveness and irony. Their Islamist fanaticism was built on not being informed, not having read anything, not being interested in the imaginary power of literature.
During the months of hiding, Philippe holds on to the European literary canon, just like Rushdie did in his memoir, in which he writes: ‘He needed, now, to be clear of what he was fighting for. Freedom of speech, freedom of the imagination, freedom from fear, and the beautiful, ancient art of which he was privileged to be a practitioner. Also skepticism, irreverence, doubt, satire, comedy, and unholy glee. He would never again flinch from the defense of these things’ (cited in Remnick, 2023). In August 2022, more than 30 years after the fatwa was called, Rushdie was stabbed on stage in the US by a lone radical Islamist, and survived. In February 2023, the publication of his new novel Victory City proves that the writer of literature is not silenced by violence. The defiance of Rushdie, as the defiance of Charlie Hebdo are acts we have to celebrate, because in these acts we acclaim the power of literature.
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An Unfortunate Coincidence is the first on my list of 7 must-read memoirs. It is a heart-stopping, exquisitely well-written story of one family’s battle with autism. This book is personal, not political, and it reads like a novel—full of hope and despair. It shows how the perfect storm of toxins, including mercury-containing vaccines, acetaminophen, and round after round of antibiotics, can destroy a child’s brain. As I wrote in my endorsement of the book that’s on the back cover, it should be required reading for every doctor and parent in America. Even if you think you know everything there is to know about autism, this book will teach you something new.
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A provocative memoir by a cardiologist who is also a regular contributor to the New York Times, this book, which is the second on my list of 7 must-read memoirs, exposes some of the flaws in today’s medical system with breathtaking honesty and self reflection. Jauhar details how he struggles—and fails—to support his family’s expensive lifestyle, how he feels deeply criticized by his father and his wealthier, more outgoing, and much less ethical older brother, and how his depression and self-doubt leads him also to feel alienated from his wife. Doctored is a wake-up call to how much money influences what tests are ordered, what hospitals do, and how medical professionals counsel their patients. It’s also a wake-up call to how poorly organized our medical system is, and how even good people get corrupted by a bad system, often doing untold harm, even as they are celebrated as heroes.
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For every regular manning a barstool, there’s likely a family waiting at home. That’s the subtitle of this third book on my list of 7 must-read memoirs. Janie’s father is a peeping Tom alcoholic, her mother a hard-working but totally disengaged nurse. Janie tells her story in vivid prose that brings you back to the 1980s and right into the center of her loneliness and despair. Teachers working with at risk kids can especially benefit from reading this story, as it gives you such an honest look at what the children of alcoholics go through when they are not at school. I bought five copies of Daughter of the Drunk at the Bar to give to friends and family.
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The daughter of loving but totally drug-addicted parents, Liz Murray spends her childhood in the Bronx trying to please her parents and survive her cockroach-infested life. Hungry, filthy, neglected, and exposed to more partying and drug use than most adults see in a lifetime, Liz leaves “home” when she’s a teenager, staying at friends’ houses and sleeping in stairwells and under bridges. A persevering young girl who is painfully desperate for her parents’ love, she tells her story in a straightforward, kind, compassionate, and totally compelling way. Against-all-odds, by dint of sheer determination, and with the help of teachers who notice how smart she really is, Liz manages, finally, to get a high school diploma, and be accepted at Harvard. I can’t even read the Amazon reviews of this book without crying. If you’re interested in poverty and homelessness, put this as number 1 on your list of 7 must-read memoirs.
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His wife not entirely on board, Colin Beavan spends a year trying to live as ecologically as he can, which means carrying his 18-month-old daughter up nine flights of stairs, only eating food grown within trucking distance of New York City (no more iced quad espressos, for him anyway), and eventually even turning off the electricity. The chronicle of Beavan’s year-long experiment, No Impact Man is full of self-deprecating jokes and laugh out loud funny. Honest and totally charming, it will inspire you to tread more gently on the earth. I loved this book. Definitely a must-read memoir.
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A three-year-old girl stands on a chair at the stove making a hotdog. Her pink dress catches on fire and she spends six weeks in the hospital with burns all over her body. The hospital staff is kind to her; she feels safe and protected. She doesn’t understand why the nurses look at her with so much compassion but she is glad to have delicious meals three times a day. Her mentally unstable alcoholic father gets furious with the uppity doctors and takes his daughter out of the hospital without medical permission. Just a typical incident in the life of Jeannette Walls. The glass castle is the house her father promises to build Jeannette and her siblings some day. Her mother, also mentally unstable, is a self-proclaimed adrenaline junkie and both parents are often thrilled by their lifestyle, even as their children are sexually, emotionally, and physically abused. The Glass Castle (like the other books on this list) is a memoir you will read and then want to read again. The writing is beautiful, the story is heart-wrenching. And even though Jeannette Walls was able to get herself out of poverty and away from her toxic and chaotic past, the book reminds us that so many children in America still silently suffer from hunger, abuse, and neglect.
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Activist Theatre: The Effects of Community Performance on system Justification and Willingness to Engage in Activisim
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Subjectsystem justification; collective action; community performance; art activism; virtual action
System justification is a motivation to legitimize the status quo that disables individuals from changing oppressive social systems. Community performance has long been used as a tool to illuminate and challenge such systems of power. The goal of the present study was to provide an empirical test of the effectiveness of community performance in the context of gender-based oppression. Specifically, the present study tested whether a community performance could decrease audience members’ system justification and increase intentions to engage in collective and virtual action to correct these oppressive systems. The performance consisted of 18 community-created pieces performed by 11 actresses before an audience of 165 members of the college and local communities across three days. A total of 153 audience members participated in the study. Results indicated that a 50-min performance reduced system justification while increasing willingness to take collective and virtual-based action. Limitations and implications are discussed.
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CitationVogel, A.M. and Jackson, L.E. (2016). Activist theatre: The effects of community performance on system justification and willingness to engage in activism. J.Community Appl. Soc. Psychol., 26(5): 456-462. doi:10.1002/casp.2277
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Matty Phillips has signed a new three-year deal with Albion to keep him contracted at The Hawthorns until 2022.
The news was revealed by a delighted Head Coach Slaven Bilić at Friday’s media sessions to preview Saturday’s Sky Bet Championship clash against Blackburn Rovers at The Hawthorns (3pm).
Phillips signed from QPR for an undisclosed fee in the summer of 2016 and has become a key figure in the Baggies first-team plans.
His appearance against Reading in Albion’s previous home match was the 100th Baggies game in which he has featured, scoring 14 goals.
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Throughout history, Rokugan has been no stranger to war. While the Great Clans have served the Empire faithfully for centuries, they have been at odds with one another as often as not. Although generations have come and gone since the time of large-scale wars between clans, many useful things can still be gleaned from their history. If Rokugan ever finds itself thrust into the chaos of another war, the generals of the Great Clans will find the military knowledge of their forebears absolutely invaluable. The Fields of Victory sourcebook for Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying contains three chapters overflowing with information about warfare in Rokugan, both past and present, as well as providing new gameplay and character-building options for players. The valiant Lion Clan has always taken great pride in their study of history, including their methods of preserving it, and so much of the information about famous Rokugani battles of the past is presented from the Lion Clan’s perspective. This book provides Game Masters with an arsenal of supplemental rules, tools, and guidance for staging grand battles in their own campaigns; meanwhile, players receive new character options through the introduction of the Badger Clan, ten new schools, and a variety of new titles and techniques to expand on existing player characters.
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Any media outlet that has attempted to deal with the Bladen County Board of Education for information of any kind knows the restricted drill — school board members are not allowed to talk with the media, individual school administration is not allowed to talk with or submit anything to the media, and the superintendent is heavily shielded from any media requests.
Instead, all requests must be made to and information must come from Public Information Officer Valerie Newton.
As more than one county official has described the local Board of Education to us, “they have created a fantasy world where only they are a part of.”
So we were surprised recently when School Board Chairman Vinston Rozier chose to publicly respond to a May 1 editorial in the Bladen Journal (“Task force is facing three trouble spots”) that listed the school district as being an unenthusiastic partner in the county’s battle against the opioid crisis.
In part, Rozier told those at the May 14 school board meeting that “we don’t want the public to think we aren’t doing anything.”
Let’s see exactly what Bladen County Schools is doing: Aside from one of the early meetings of the Opioid Task Force, only one employee with the Central Office has attended some of the meetings and has made little effort to offer any active involvement other than to sign in on the attendance list; no individual schools have been represented; and no school board members have been attending task force meetings.
So no, Mr. Rozier, you and the school district aren’t doing much of anything.
And there actually could be a good reason for that. Back in October 2017, when the county’s Opioid Task Force was in its infancy, Bladen County Schools Superintendent Robert Taylor told a group of about 50 there was no opioid problem in the local schools. On May 14, Taylor told the school board and those in the audience, in part, that we stand behind out earlier statement that there is no opioid problem in our schools … and added something to the effect of it’s not a student problem, it’s an adult problem.
Can anyone living in the real world honestly believe that? We can’t understand how intelligent individuals can be so naive and ingenuous about a subject that has received so much local, state and federal attention for months. It’s almost as if our local school district officials think if they say it’s not there, it won’t be — much like we were told there was no bullying problem in the schools several years ago.
There are so many problems with how the Board of Education functions — including its lack of transparency, its gag order on its elected officials and its coverup of everyday issues within its schools — that the “fantasy world” description may hit the nail squarely on the head.
If there is to be change, school board members have to grow a backbone, start acting like elected officials who represent constituents, remember that the suprintendent works for them and not the other way around, and speak up on issues when contacted by news outlets; and the district, including at least the county’s middle and high schools, must start taking the opioid crisis seriously and participate actively in the local task force.
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Mark Greif. Published in Issue 3: Reality Principle. Publication date Fall There is a persistent dream that television will be more than it is: that it will not only sit in every home, but make a conduit for those homes to reach back to a shared fund of life. The utopia of television nearly came within reach in , on the day cable providers announced that cable boxes would expand to channels. Back then, our utopian idea rested on assumptions both right and wrong.
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London: Wallflower Press, , pp. Some five years later, it should not be surprising that an erstwhile trickle of academic interest in the popularization of factual programming should begin to resemble a mini-glut of new publications. This review will consider three of these, although I should acknowledge that others are forthcoming, not least Jonathan Bignell’s contribution Big Brother — Reality TV in the Twenty-First Century , due for publication in December Although all three of the studies under review pay close attention to Big Brother , it is the earliest of these, Understanding Reality Television , that it most dominates.
The series is the central topic or an exemplary text for five of the fourteen chapters in this edited collection, and is cited in most others. The problem here for television studies is that assumptions about Big Brother as the reality form par excellence are already looking rather dated, even if — and this is an important qualification — the theoretical modifications prompted by its innovations have a significantly longer shelf-life.
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Arguably the most irresponsible reality show ever made, “Born in the Wild” documents couples who want to have a more “natural” birthing experience by delivering a baby in the great outdoors—unassisted by modern medicine. The show was slammed by medical experts, as a premodern birth process is associated with vastly higher infant mortality rates. The actual show plays a bit like a miracle-of-birth version of “The Blair Witch Project”—and when a show’s suspense is generated from viewers wondering if a mother and her newborn are going to die, you’ve got to wonder how this ever got a green light.
The concept: Catch suspected relationship cheaters in the act.
“Summer House,” a new Bravo reality show set in Montauk, premieres (CBS, ): During its lone season, 16 contestants in New York City.
Thanks to the explosion and global popularity of reality TV in the late ’90s and early s, viewers have been blessed with so many series that it’s often difficult to remember them all. Although reality TV can provide a much-needed escape from the actual jarring reality of current times, some of these series are so far-fetched that it makes you question how they ever had an opportunity to see the light of day.
From outdoor births and plastic surgery beauty pageants to tricking women into dating and falling in love with a faux-version of Britain’s Duke of Sussex, reality TV has figured out how to continuously cross the line when it comes to odd, awkward — and, at times, offensive — programming. With far too many to name, this list of series only scratches the surface of mind-blowing reality entertainment that fans have been privy to over the years. This reality series aired on Lifetime and featured couples who had, for some reason, chosen to give birth to their children in remote places sans the assistance of traditional medical professionals.
Truly a “wild” experience. Fox’s series Joe Millionair e literally tricked women into falling in love with a man who was lying to them and pretending to be rich. Bridalplasty lasted just one season on E!
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Live variety shows had taken cameras into the streets in the s, and Candid Camera , which surreptitiously filmed people responding to elaborate practical jokes, debuted on ABC in with stints on all three networks until , its longest tenure coming on CBS [—67], before it was revived in —90 and again in Reality shows began taking on other forms as well. In Cops Fox, —; Spike, begun , a camera crew rode along with the police as they patrolled various urban settings. Episodes of Cops had been taped in more than cities by the end of the century.
In the making of this series, camera crews followed the Louds, a Santa Barbara, Calif.
Contents of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture () anne Morreale examines the hybrid makeover, game, and reality TV show Faking It as a.
After finding fame on TV, many stars have gone on to make a career out of reality TV appearances because why stop at one show? Keep reading for more stars who’ve been on multiple reality TV shows…. Next up? Scott Disick! Trista Sutter found true love when she appeared on the first season of “The Bachelorette” in She achieved national fame when she starred on “Flavor of Love” and “Flavor of Love 2″ in Jenn,” “Brunch with Tiffany” and “Scared Famous.
Back in the s, Brigitte Nielsen was known for her action movies. Today, she’s much more famous for her reality TV appearances. The Danish model-actress first appeared on reality TV in when she competed on the Danish version of “Big Brother. Adrianne Curry seemed destined for a great modeling career when she won the first season of “America’s Next Top Model” in
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Today’s reality TV genre consists of game shows, talent contests, sitcoms, and lifestyle tabloid news to learn more about a reality TV series (Hill, , p. 15).
Reality television TV has achieved broad popularity in Australia and worldwide with its ability to permeate a range of social spheres, most notably the domestic sphere. There is probably no better representation of a performative culture than the one that exists in Reality TV, nor one that brings to light so vibrantly the notion of performance within society more broadly. Theoretically, this deconstruction is informed by symbolic interactionism and in particular the idea that all individuals perform their characters for an audience in their day-to-day lives Goffman, As such, the present paper is a discussion paper that explores performativity in Reality TV, using examples from well-known Reality TV programmes to highlight theoretical points.
At the pre-production stage the present paper explores the use of audition-related terminology emphasised in the majority of Reality TV programmes, and consider the selection of contestants, which more accurately reflects a casting process. At the peri- and post-production stages, performance and narrative play a significant part in the audience engagement of these programmes, but are not always engineered by spontaneous performance. A range of industry techniques are adopted to influence the perceptions of the viewer and to enhance the sense of reality and conflict.
The contribution of this paper is the joint consideration and synthesis of performativity and Reality TV production techniques. As far as the authors are aware, this nexus has not been addressed before. As such, the present paper aims to provide theoretical as well as practical insights in to the area. Gater, Bruce, and Jasmine B.


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Now is the time for the people in lower Luzerne County to organize and take steps to form our own county.
We are financially able to support a separate county and possibly have our taxes reduced. We would not be paying for services that we seldom use and would have job opportunities that usually go to upper Luzerne County residents.
The process to become a separate county is not really a dream. But, we need to take steps to start the process.
We, the people of the Hazleton area communities, need to petition that regional discrimination be officially addressed and eliminated, and have an opportunity granted to us to vote to self-determine the establishment of our own county.
To begin, all we need is 2,000 residents of our communities to sign a petition to become a new county. Once completed, the petition needs to be filed with the secretary of internal affairs. The governor would appoint three commissioners to investigate if we meet the requirements for a new county and they would send their findings to the governor.
The governor reports findings and decides if findings are subject to court appeal before setting up a vote of the people.
Hopefully, some local attorney or legislator will accept the challenge and initiate this needed action.
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Re-experience your music in a world that is generated by the track of your choosing, and the speed of your ship is determined by the intensity of the song at a given time. With multiple game modes such as collection, matching, shooting, platforming, and racing, there will always be something to do.
Song: Let This Go by Stan SB
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Falz unwraps the music video for his buzzing humorous single “Celebrity Girlfriend” featuring Reekado Banks.
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SYDNEY, Aug. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NP Digital, a leader in performance marketing and officially named the 21st fastest growing businesses in the US by Inc. 5000, announces the continued expansion of its global business. The agency welcomes Dan Kalinski as its new President of NP Digital Australia to lead regional growth and meet increasing demand from Australian businesses.
Kalinski brings more than 20 years of agency and client-side experience and boasts solid performance marketing credentials and prowess. Prior to joining NP Digital, Kalinski served as CEO of iProspect and Dentsu’s integrated performance division in Australia and most recently Canada. Kalinski has extensive experience in overseeing the expansion of agency teams across the UK, Australia and Canada and has worked for brands such as NAB, HSBC, Hollard, Woolworths, Holden, Microsoft, Hermes, and Australia Post.
A key priority for NP Digital’s Australian division is bringing integrated e-comm solutions to the Australian marketplace. This year alone, the agency has delivered more than 800 million “ready-to-buy” visitors to clients’ websites across US, UK, Brazil and Australia. This is made possible through a combination of the agency’s Search, Social, CRM and E-com capabilities. The Australian office offers a competitive advantage of having no analogue legacy and expensive overheads, allowing it to deliver U.S. expertise and market leading results at an accessible cost to Aussie businesses.
“Dan’s track record in growing regional expansion is extraordinary and will be instrumental in our Australian growth and brand presence,” said Michael Gullaksen CEO of NP Digital. “He is uniquely in tune with building effective teams and possesses a deep understanding of what brands need for success in an increasingly digital landscape.”
“I’m very excited to be joining the team at a time of tremendous growth and momentum. Our mission is simple – we want to help Aussie businesses accelerate their online growth and we will achieve this by combining the cutting-edge expertise of our U.S. division with the local knowledge and experience of our Australian team,” said Kalinski. “The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation and many industries have seen survival of the digitally fittest with successful businesses becoming even stronger and the inferior gradually disappearing. Our mission is to help Aussie businesses win.
About NP Digital:
NP Digital is a global performance marketing agency focused on enterprise and mid-market challenger brands. Underpinned by its proprietary technology division and platform Ubersuggest, NP Digital is regarded as one of the fastest growing, award winning performance marketing agencies in the industry. NP Digital views marketing through a consultative lens that takes a holistic view when applying specialist execution to building meaningful partnerships. These partnerships include some of the world’s most important Fortune 500 brands in addition to mid-size, DTC challenger-type organizations.
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PRIMAL FEAR recently finished the recording of their upcoming 13th studio album, set to be called Metal Commando. The title of the album speaks for itself – Metal Commando is 110% PRIMAL FEAR and is full to the brim with power and energy. The album was produced by Mat Sinner and mixed by Jacob Hansen – an experienced dream team.
“I don’t want to throw around superlatives, but each of us went to our utmost limits and we are all very happy with the sound and song material. It’s pretty safe to say that this is a top album and maybe even our strongest record to date” comments bassist and producer Mat Sinner. “It’s the perfect mix between our origins and our current style – a perfect balance and all band members have done an awesome job playing and recording it. For me, Metal Commando is the right album at the right time!”.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOJow7Gn3nI&w=560&h=315]
Metal Commando will be released on July 17th via Nuclear Blast and is set to contain 11 tracks. Pre-orders will be launched on May 15th, just in time for the release of first single ‘Along Came The Devil’, a hard-hitting PRIMAL FEAR bomb. More info will follow soon!
See PRIMAL FEAR live this September 25th at London venue The Dome, as part of a wider European tour. Freedom Call will be accompanying them on the road, with more guests to be announced later. Tickets available below!
Order various PRIMAL FEAR vinyl via the links below!
Black Sun: https://www.nuclearblast.de/290894
Devil’s Ground: https://www.nuclearblast.de/290895
Seven Seals: https://www.nuclearblast.de/290896
Nuclear Fire: https://www.nuclearblast.de/279810
Crucify Me 7″: http://nblast.de/PrimalFearCrucifyMe
PRIMAL FEAR is:
Ralf Scheepers | vocals
Mat Sinner | bass, vocals
Alex Beyrodt | guitars
Tom Naumann | guitars
Magnus Karlsson | guitars
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Ooooo ok... these cookies are my favorite! I am a sucker for a good gooey chocolate chip cookie! One day during quarantine my momma text me and said "I did it! I created the yummiest doughy-ist chocolate chip cookie". She said she has been practicing and combining different recipes to come up with the PERFECT chocolate chip cookie recipe... so of course I had to drive over there taste it for myself... she did lie! They were pretty dayyyuummm good!
So I stole the recipe and am sharing it with you! It is pretty simple and self explanatory! A few tips I will share with you are... make sure you oven is heated to the full 375. My mom says that's the secret... cook fast and hot! Now... the other tip is actually going to be up to you which one you follow! So my mom melts her butter so it is liquid but NOT hot. When it is liquid you get a flatter, gooey-ier cookie. I personally keep my butter at room temp so it is soft but not melted/liquid. I like my chocolate chip cookies to be a little fluffier but they are still gooey. I recommend trying each way and seeing which one you like... Both ways your cookies will turn out soooo yummy, its just preference! But let me know which why you like! :)
Anyway... I hope you enjoy!
Angelique & Momma Coop

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Diamond started life as a punk rocker in the band Chicken Pox, but taking inspiration from artists such as New Order, Michael Jackson, and Roxy Music, he veered towards electro and joined The Party. However, he is best known for his collaboration in Stardust with Alan Braxe and Thomas Bangalter (of D
Black Flag was a hardcore punk band formed in 1976 in southern California, largely as the brainchild of Greg Ginn: the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes. They are widely considered the first hardcore punk band.
Black Flag forged a uniqu
Deerhoof is a San Francisco musical group, currently consisting of Satomi Matsuzaki (usually vocals and bass), John Dieterich (usually guitar), Ed Rodriguez (usually guitar as well) and Greg Saunier (usually drums).
Although typically classified as indie rock due to their having been on an indie r
In terms of public acclaim, The Chills were possibly the most successful Dunedin Sound rock band of the 1980s and 1990s, but this acclaim is not matched by sales or financial success.
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On the Banks of Muddy Creek
Photo and caption by Maureen Keefe
Muddy Creek is a tributary of the Colorado River that descends southward from the Continental Divide, joining the Blue River at the Headwaters of the Colorado. Due to abundant rainfall in 2011, fall color in the Colorado Rocky Mountains was beyond spectacular. Even in early winter the excess moisture burnished dead wetland grasses golden and breathed fiery radiance into Red Willows painting the river valley with a surreal brush.
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After a week of pre-budget spending announcements, the Andrews Labor government has announced tax changes to rake in $120 million a year from Victorians ahead of its third budget.
Those in the market for a brand new car will pay more stamp duty from July 1 in a move Treasurer Tim Pallas says will put more than $100 million a year into the state's coffer.
For new passenger vehicles, stamp duty will increase from $6.40 per $200 of market value to $8.40, bringing the rate in-line with that for used cars.
Mr Pallas told reporters on Saturday it means stamp duty for a $23,000 car like a Toyota Corolla will rise by $230, from $736 to $966.
New cars had lower stamp duty in a bid to encourage people to buy locally made vehicles, Mr Pallas said.
Because the federal coalition government "chased out" local car manufacturing, the differential support "no longer served a purpose".
Property taxes are also in the line of fire and from next financial year the government will also close a property duty loophole between spouses.
Transfers between partners will no longer be exempt from stamp duty, except for changes for the principal place of residence or following a relationship breakdown.
It's estimated about 3000 people a year use such an arrangement.
"The idea of the transfer of investment properties between spouses is seeking to do pretty much one thing and that's to avoid liability to taxation," Mr Pallas said.
"We're going to clamp down on that and it's likely to bring in a sum in the vicinity of about $20 million a year to the state of Victoria."
And from 2019, land tax will be revalued annually instead of biannually.
The changes come after Premier Daniel Andrews held firm his government would "honour all its promises" when pressed on Friday over whether a pre-election commitment of no increase to taxes beyond CPI or no new taxes, charges, fees and levies still held for this year's budget.
The opposition is calling the changes a broken promise.
"Under Daniel Andrews the only thing rising faster than the crime rate is the tax rate," shadow treasurer Michael O'Brien said in a statement.
Throughout the week, the government had been on a pre-budget spending spree, continuing its building blitz and crackdown on crime.
Infrastructure announcements included $100 million for planning the North East Link toll road, $800 million for more level crossing removals and $271.55 million for the Melbourne Park redevelopment.
And in a bid to fix the law and order headache: $2 billion for more police and community safety initiatives, a $308 million overhaul of how the state's most violent criminals are handled and another $81.1 million for Ice Action Plan measures.
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Guest posted a topic in GUPT | ANONYMOUSHi I am not sikh but hindu punjabi however I do have Sikh relatives and learning about sikhi online. I came to this forum to ask for advice my older sister whose over 21 now and has run off with a muslim guy of pakistani origin and rumors are that she was pregnant so felt she had to run away and converted to islam for him. She is currently living in a flat on rent with him but she wont tell us where exactly they staying. We live in a muslim dominated part of the UK where muslims out number non-muslims in schools and colleges and it was at college that she started to secretly date muslim guys but she never told me about this until recently. Recently I found out she was seeing a guy secretly who she had met from instagram, our family isnt very religious but they believe in pundits and babay and go mandir and bhawans time to time. So to find out my sister might have converted to islam is a massive shock for us and has put added trouble in the family where we have got a bad name now in the community. When I last spoke to my sis she said she loved this guy and she wants to marry him. I feel as if I should have stepped in sooner to stop from all this happening but now i think its too late. What if anything can I do to make her see sense or bring her back into the family? Our family isnt the only one who are experiencing this crisis I have learn many other british indian families also are suffering the same thing happening to their daughters and sisters.
genie posted a topic in WHAT'S HAPPENING?I was just looking at social media networking sites and seeing the comments and tweets of girls/women of punjabi sikh background and saw they mostly were being targeted by non-sikh guys for interactions and conversations especially pakistani / kashmiri muslim guys. Who as we already know look for non-muslim girls for sexual exploitation / grooming and ultimately conversion to islam by devious softly softly approach and also see it as part of their jihad against the kafir unbelievers and their faith. So was wondering are any of our Sikh organizations and leaders know what is going on? And how do we combat and raise awareness of this problem which has and will impact our community in years to come.