Warning: this episode of High Theory is very silly.
In our new summer series of “Sillies,” Saronik and Kim ask each other how simple things will achieve the grandiose task of saving the world. In this episode, Saronik asks Kim how jeans will save the world. Yes, we mean denim, not genes.
Some reading that might help assuage the silliness, and support our absurd arguments is listed below:

Raymond Malewitz, The Practice of Misuse: Rugged Consumerism in Contemporary American Culture (Stanford UP 2014).

Sam Binkley, Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s (Duke UP 2007).

Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Chicago UP 2006).

Herbert Schiller, “Communication and Cultural Domination,” International Journal of Politics 5 no. 4 (Winter 1975/1976). {apparently the source of the term “cultural imperialism”}


In this episode we used sound effects from freesound.org. To make the episode we downloaded sounds created by the following users: MATRIXX, aj_heels, deleted_user_5959249, LittleRobotSoundFactory, TarynMichelle101, Yellowbear, voxlab, NikiPlaymostories, TasmanianPower, trader_one, milkywaysurroundsme, josefpres, BugInTheSYS, paulnorthyorks. Click the link to hear the sound.
This episode’s silly image was created by Saronik Bosu.
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