His wildly successful books -- many of which centered on Jack Ryan, Clancy's fictional CIA agent -- had several spheres of influence in film, television and video games.
For now, real-life reproductive rights align with television's fictional sphere.
But then you think back to implausible real-life political scandals, and you can't help but admire the writers for producing such compelling television in a sphere where real life headlines can be fare more melodramatic than what you could plausibly put in a serious TV show.
There is immense potential in the original TV content sphere, with this ecosystem growing increasingly large in parallel with the rate of television being watched on mobile devices in Asia.
Mr. Linzy's displacements of voice and gender come from the world of drag, but because they infiltrate other spheres — mainstream television, the art-star system — they become less about a man dressing as a woman and more about the everyday role-playing and ventriloquism enabled by digital culture.
Beers's particular genius is realizing that the sphere of aspirational television could be enlarged beyond the mainstays of wealth, talent, youth and celebrity.
When I was growing up in the '70s, homosexuality was never mentioned in the public sphere, not on television, in the newspapers or in magazines.
The ever-conspiring spheres of advertising, television and pop music are serving up a pair of one-size-fits-all archetypes, one male, one female; Mr. Rushkoff calls them the mook and the midriff.
Colbert's parody of a right-wing blowhard may be one of the greatest ongoing jokes in recent television history, but in its own sphere, the modern FEC may be an even bigger one.
A performance like this aptly displays some of the far-reaching possibilities that dance music can have in the live sphere, as well as on television.
