Ryan Sheely returns with Matthew Wrather to discuss the past three episodes of Gossip Girl, focusing on the casualization of academic labor, the priority of social orders, the place of education in Gossip Girl, Weberian vs. Marxian conceptions of modernity, and the film language of alliances and and shifting
Required reading for next time: Armstrong, Elizabeth A., et al. “Is Hooking Up Bad for Young Women?” Contexts 9.3 (2010): 28–32.
Also, Wrather’s shameless plug for his show.
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