Why are Animals Funny?: Everyday Analysis

Why are Animals Funny?: Everyday Analysis

by EDA Collective
Why are Animals Funny?: Everyday Analysis

Why are Animals Funny?: Everyday Analysis

by EDA Collective

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Overview

Why are Animals Funny? comprises 46 articles in which nigh on everything is analyzed, from the smartphone to the 2010 general election, from toasties to Margaret Thatcher, from anxiety in children's literature to David Cameron's music tastes...
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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781782793922
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 03/28/2014
Edition description: Volume 1
Pages: 136
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Everyday Analysis (EDA Collective) is a group of writers, mostly in Manchester, in the UK, who have been posting short articles on everyday events, phenomena, affairs, popular and avant garde culture, and anything else, online, and have begun to amass quite a following in the blogosphere, in a relatively short time.

Table of Contents

0 Introduction: What is Everyday Analysis?-A Defence of "Theory" 1

1 The Email Sign-Off and Politeness 8

2 On the Impossibility of Judging a Book by its Cover 10

3 Baby Food, or How to Eat Like an American 12

4 Is God a Match for the Unconscious? 14

5 Is DJing a Resistance to the Standardised Commodity? 16

6 Old Spice and the Structure of Advertising 18

7 The Centralizing Drive of 'Would You Rather…?' 20

8 Celebrities on Canvas and the Birth of Photography 22

9 You are What You are and What You are is OK 25

10 The Politics of 'Friend Zone' 26

11 Love-Locks 28

12 Crosscountry Trains 30

13 Hiding Racism in the Racist Joke 32

14 Why the 2010 UK General Election Should Have Us in Stitches, but Doesn't… 36

15 'Newphoria' and the Case of the Mobile Phone 39

16 Tazreen Fashions Factorv Photographs and their Reception 41

17 Autocorrect in the History of Literature 44

18 How Toasties Can Hide Little Bits of the Real 47

19 Does it Really Make a Difference Whether it was James Gandolfini or Tony Soprano who Died? 49

20 'Your a Dick': Richard Dawkins's Tweets 52

21 Charity and the Disorganisation of Unemployees 55

22 The Deaths of Margaret Thatcher 58

23 The Daily Mail: A Text that Reads Itself 61

24 Saint Artist Taxi Driver 63

25 Why are Animals Funny? 65

26 On the Bicentenary of Richard Wagner 67

27 Moon and the Eternal Return of the Same 70

28 Symbols of the Working Class 72

29 One Grande Super Skinny Latte with an Extra Shot and Sugar-Free Vanilla Syrup Please! 74

30 Why Justin Bieber Should Listen to Neutral Milk Hotel 76

31 More on Justin Bieber and Anne Frank 78

32 Pushing the Skies' Limit 81

33 'Drink Responsibly' and the Limits of the Infinite 84

34 This Charmless Man 86

35 'Change Your Life' 88

36 Angry Birds and Postmodernism 90

37 Manning Up 93

38 From Restricted to General Onanism 95

39 Fear and Anxiety in The Gruffalo 97

40 Consumero ex nihilo: 'Air is Part of the Recipe' 100

41 Relationship Breakdowns, Marx, and Alice in Wonderland 102

42 Miroslaw Balka's 'How It Is' 105

43 Alain de Botton and the Narcissism of Melancholy 109

44 How did the Other get so Big? The Swallowing of Democracy by the Imaginary Order 111

45 Worbining (Word-Combining) 114

46 'One Word: Plastics' - A Parable of Discord in The Graduate 116

Endnotes 118

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