Wednesday, March 13, 2024

DS 126 political cosplay (March 19)

Form a group with three responsible members.
Present a political cosplay based on your chosen concept.
Avoid duplication of topic.
Use the 'discourse of suspicion' (Mumby, 1997) as frame of analysis.

Assign a group member who will serve as the political cosplayer.
Ask the political cosplayer to do a 15-second monologue/performance.
Assign another member who will do the oral presentation about the topic (i.e., introduction of the group members, introduction of the cosplay character, and insightful discussion about the topic = 2 minutes only). 
Use at least 10 references in your research about the assigned topic.
Present in English and/or Filipino. 
Ensure that the preparation is a collective effort.
Rehearse and present well.
Be sure not to spend anything for this task.  Simple improvisation will do. Use available materials only.

Topics to choose from:
elite capture
regulatory capture
technological fix
solutionism
calibrated liberalization
creeping privatization
bureaupathology
bureaucratic red tape
punditocracy
mediatization 
military-industrial complex
war economy
lumpen-academic
lumpenproletariat
bounded rationality
irrationality of rationality 


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