This essay discusses Bully (Canis Canem Edit), considering the game's antecedents (narratives involving young people in school settings) and the features which set it apart from other teen texts. It discusses the controversy surrounding the game and comes to the conclusion that the principal reason for unease on the part of parents and educational authorities is that Bully's postmodernist ethic...

The essay explores alterations in authorship and readership brought about by new material conditions of textuality. The argument is that print, broadcast electronics and digital networks each construct authors and readers in different ways. I ask what are the material conditions of authors/readers today? I use Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault to frame the question of the author/reader in rel...

This paper critically contextualizes the open secret of Karan Johar’s sexuality as a key marketable commodity in neoliberal framework ‘KJo’ brand. It examines cultural legibility his sexuality. argues that juxtaposition between ubiquity and maintained silence on identifying serves an incitement enables study role incrementally making space for depoliticized individualized upper-class male same-...