By many accounts, HBO's The Wire was and remains the greatest and most important television drama of all time. Conceived by writers David Simon and ex-Baltimore homicide detective Ed Burns, this five-season, sixty-episode tour de force has raised the bar for compelling, intelligent television production. With each season addressing a different arena of life in the city of Baltimore, and each season's narratives tapping into those from previous seasons, The Wire was able to reveal the overlapping, criss-crossing, and colliding realities that shape—if not control—the people, institutions, and culture of the modern American city.
The Wire and Philosophy celebrates this show's realism as well as its intellectual and philosophical clarity. Selected philosophers who are fans of The Wire tap into these conflicts and interconnections to expose the underlying philosophical issues and assumptions and pursue questions, such as, Can cops really tell whether they are smarter than their perps? Or do they fall victim to intellectual vanity? Do individuals really have free will to resist the temptations—of gangs, of drugs, or corruption—that surround them? Is David Simon a modern-day Marx who sees capitalism leading ultimately to its own collapse, or is Baltimore's story uniquely its own?

lgrsnf/The Wire and Philosophy This America, Man (Popular Culture and Philosophy) [582841].pdf

Bzdak, David; Crosby, Joanna; Vannatta, Seth

Cricket Books

Popular culture and philosophy, Chicago, Illinois, 2013

United States, United States of America

1, 2013

Table of Contents
Respect for a Skill Set | Prof Joe
First Case: The Game
LINE 1: This Ain't Aruba, Bitch | Joanna Crosby
LINE 2: All in the Game | Ty Fagan
LINE 3: Locke'd in the Game? | William Allen
Second Case: The Tactics
LINE 4: Wee-Bey's Way | David Bzdak
LINE 5: When a Lie Ain't Just a Lie | Seam McAleer
LINE 6: Came to Do Good, Stayed to Do Well | Jason Grinnell
LINE 7: Giving a FUck when It's Not your Turn | Jim Thompson
LINE 8: What if Nobody Walks the Straight and Narrow Track? | Don Fallis
Third Case: Omar Comin'
Line 9: Is Omar the Nietzschean Overman? | Scott Clifton
LINE 10: The Best of Boys and Lads
LINE 11: Omar the Virtuous Thug | Jonathan Therise
Fourth Case: The Boundaries
LINE 12: No Women Up in the Game | Mona Rocha and James Rocha
LINE 13: Capital Noir | Tommy J. Curry
LINE 14: Hard Times after Hard Time | Zachary Hoskins and Nora Wikoff
Fifth Case: The Loss
LINE 15: The Wire as American Tragedy | Avram Gurland-Blaker
LINE 16: The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Baltimore | John Thomas Brittingham
LINE 17: The Wire, or, What to Do in Non-Eventual Times | Slavoj Zizek
Sixth Case: Sentencing
LINE 18: Class Projects and the Project Class | Seth Vannatta
LINE 19: You Gonna Get Got | Kody W. Cooper
LINE 20: Is Our Thing Really a Part of the Big Thing? | Nathan Eckstrand
LINE 21: Stop Snitching, Screw the System | Myisha Cherry
Our Connect
Hoppers, Fiends, and Natural POH-lice
Index

<DIV>By many accounts, HBO&#8217;s <EM>The Wire</EM> was and remains the greatest and most important television drama of all time. Conceived by writers David Simon and ex-Baltimore homicide detective Ed Burns, this five-season, sixty-episode <EM>tour de force</EM> has raised the bar for compelling, intelligent television production. With each season addressing a different arena of life in the city of Baltimore, and each season&#8217;s narratives tapping into those from previous seasons, <EM>The Wire</EM> was able to reveal the overlapping, criss-crossing, and colliding realities that shape&#8212;if not control&#8212;the people, institutions, and culture of the modern American city.<BR><BR><EM>The Wire and Philosophy</EM> celebrates this show&#8217;s realism as well as its intellectual and philosophical clarity. Selected philosophers who are fans of <EM>The Wire</EM> tap into these conflicts and interconnections to expose the underlying philosophical issues and assumptions and pursue questions, such as, Can cops really tell whether they are smarter than their perps? Or do they fall victim to intellectual vanity? Do individuals really have free will to resist the temptations&#8212;of gangs, of drugs, or corruption&#8212;that surround them? Is David Simon a modern-day Marx who sees capitalism leading ultimately to its own collapse, or is Baltimore&#8217;s story uniquely its own?</DIV>

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