Desire, Icon, Fetish, and Discrimination

Over the last couple of days, I’ve been mulling over the perception of quality in pop culture things.  Starting from the base in Wood’s “How Fiction Works” (cannot get that book out of my way of understanding the world, now that it is there), that things with a “single register” are less rich to ‘read.’

I think that there is a connection in that notion to Bourdieu’s ‘doxa’ description (from Outline of a Theory of Practice) in that the use of a ’single register’ implies either a choice or an unawareness of the full range of possible registers.  So, the producers of “America’s Got Talent,” for

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