Archive for the 'Jean Baudrillard' tag

Notes from Babel: ‘To win a World Cup you must be at your most virtuous’

May 24th, 2010 by Sean Smith

Editor’s note The following is the...
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Posted in Arts, Language, Media, Teaching Resources | 1 comment

Technology | 84 hours of MySQL (My Server Quietly Languished) hell

January 30th, 2008 by John Turnbull

Rarely do we comment on the technical aspects of...
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‘Beckham studies,’ the graduate seminar

December 11th, 2007 by John Turnbull

David Beckham‘s capacity to generate...
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We brake for commercials | Soccer spectacle fits seamlessly in America’s land of make-believe

May 27th, 2007 by John Turnbull

In a 2001 title, cultural critic Peter Pericles...
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Posted in Language, Media, USA | 5 comments

Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007 | Coining a ‘worldwide currency’ for football violence

March 12th, 2007 by John Turnbull

Spectators struggle for their lives at the...
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Posted in France, Language, Scotland | 3 comments