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Title details for The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons by Jonathan P. Eburne - Available

The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons

by Jonathan P. Eburne
Benjamin Schreier
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Essays on intellect, passion, alienation, and America's geeky subcultures.
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 recent years bringing us phenomena from #GamerGate to The Big Bang Theory, it's clear that nerds, policy wonks, and neoconservatives play a major role in today's popular culture. 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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Series: The Year's Work Publisher: Indiana University Press

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  • Release date: December 22, 2021

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  • ISBN: 9780253026873
  • File size: 1904 KB
  • Release date: December 22, 2021

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  • ISBN: 9780253026873
  • File size: 2080 KB
  • Release date: December 22, 2021

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History Sociology Nonfiction

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English

Essays on intellect, passion, alienation, and America's geeky subcultures.
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 recent years bringing us phenomena from #GamerGate to The Big Bang Theory, it's clear that nerds, policy wonks, and neoconservatives play a major role in today's popular culture. 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.
Expand title description text
History Sociology Nonfiction