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The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons (Hardcover)
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The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons (Hardcover)
Series: The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
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What happens when math nerds, band and theater geeks, goths, sci-fi
fanatics, Young Republican debate poindexters, techies, Trekkies,
D&D players, wallflowers, bookworms, and RPG players grow up?
And what can they tell us about the life of the mind in the
contemporary United States? With #GamerGate in the national news,
shows like The Big Bang Theory on ever-increasing numbers of
screens, and Peter Orzsag and Paul Ryan on magazine covers, it is
clear that nerds, policy wonks, and neoconservatives play a major
role in today's popular culture in America. The Year's Work in
Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons delves into subcultures of intellectual
history to explore their influence on contemporary American
intellectual life. Not limiting themselves to describing how
individuals are depicted, the authors consider the intellectual
endeavors these depictions have come to represent, exploring many
models and practices of learnedness, reflection, knowledge
production, and opinion in the contemporary world. As teachers,
researchers, and university scholars continue to struggle for
mainstream visibility, this book illuminates the other forms of
intellectual excitement that have emerged alongside them and found
ways to survive and even thrive in the face of dismissal or
contempt.
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