The Fake Reality Of "The Bachelor" Franchise Sheds Light On How We View Love As a writer and pop culture obsessive with an academic background in Sociology, I was immediately fascinated by what "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" say about the way our culture thinks about love and sex.
The lucrative video game industry is already the subject of obsessive evaluation online and academic scrutiny at universities.
They're the masters at the Ecole des Beaux Arts!" Picasso responded, meaning men possessed by the same rote formulae and absence of observation and obsessive traditionalism as the academic artists.
All this measurement is turning us into obsessive automatons, says this academic, and we're in danger of losing sight of the job we're here to do.
Scholars in all fields continue to gain preferment because they are "productive" (the academic euphemism for obsessive), and students continue to emulate them.
But for now I want to concentrate on just one issue: the almost obsessive emphasis on Manning's academic achievements and "clean record".
At Pacific Standard magazine, Ethan Watters profiles Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a controversial anthropologist who has blended her academic research with an obsessive activism against the illegal organ-transplant market.
He is swarmed over by fans, devotees, obsessives, Southern and Southwestern history buffs, and fiercely protective academic scholars.
For the ever growing army of writers, bloggers, editors, critics, academics and just plain old obsessive fans of this thing that may (or may not) be called sci-fi, there is at least some method in this madness.
