From Fast Capitalism, Sam Caslin (Manchester): Compliance Fiction: Adorno and Horkheimer's Culture Industry Thesis in a Multimedia Age. From Applied Semiotics, Juan Jose Martinez-Sierra (Jaume I): Using Bourdieu to Approach the Concept of Television as an Instrument of Social Reproduction in the US: The Paradox of The Simpsons; Simon Lindgren (Umea): Mosh Pits Outside the Oval Office: Mapping Sign Functions in a Music Video with a Political Message. Filmmaker Ken Burns thinks viewers of his newest documentary will be shocked to discover that war is hell. Ken Burns started his mammoth project The War in peacetime and Iraq makes his recounting of American involvement in World War II look strange to us in some ways, but sadly familiar in others.
