Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

In this episode, Phillip and Eric get woke, sell out to the algorithm, and just talk about a popular Marvel movie...or do they?



They go deep on representation discourse and critique its fallacies, offer up "messianic visibility" as a counter to the argument of "narrative plenitude," class disparities, respectability politics, and the debate over the best way to eat rice.



"Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture?" by Bertrand Cooper

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/who-actually-gets-to-create-black-pop-culture

"How 'Crazy Rich' Asians Have Led to the Largest Income Gap in the U.S."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/17/us/asian-income-inequality.html

"Everything You Think You Know About Identity Politics is Wrong"

https://planamag.com/everything-you-think-you-know-about-identity-politics-is-wrong/

mulan and boba liberalism

https://youtu.be/57KwaSzQWfg?t=130

Melissa Phruksachart; The Bourgeois Cinema of Boba Liberalism. Film Quarterly 1 March 2020; 73 (3): 59–65. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2020.73.3.59 

https://time.com/5653973/mulan-boycot...

woke CIA recruitment ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X55JPbAMc9g&list=PLb9QRVXYyLdqCUl95ecfapl9dyxiqVvqV&index=8



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