AMERICAN STIOB: Or, What late-socialist aesthetics of parody reveal about contemporary political culture in the west

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 179-221

  Boyer, Dominic ^a   Yurchak, Alexei ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Ideology; Late liberalism; Late socialism; Parody; Political communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951781938     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: 15481360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2010.01056.x     Document Type: Article

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