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Posts Tagged ‘representation’

The Politics of Brisket: Jews and The Wire

by Keith Kahn-Harris • 29 May 09
Journal: Issues | The Wire Files [4]

The Wire generally avoids simple characterisations of heroes and villains in favour of ambiguous, finely drawn characters. Our expectations of characters’ behaviours are constantly challenged and played with. But in this world of complex motivations and contradictory actions, the lawyer Maurice Levy stands out…


No Such Thing as Good and Evil: The Wire and the humanization of the object of risk in the age of biopolitics

by Angela Anderson • 29 May 09
Journal: Issues | The Wire Files [4]

Before, and at a notably accelerated pace since the unfortunate events of 2001, the notion of “life” in the United States has been reduced to an abstract reference to health and safety. Security has taken precedence over quality of life,…