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November 24, 2009

The Invariant Shallows of Lady Gaga... Is it Posturing or Professing?

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Newsweek:

French intellectual Claude Lévi-Strauss died at the age of 100 last month, before he could comment on the latest single from Lady Gaga. If you think this an absurd notion, note that Lévi-Strauss’s major project—discovering the common aspects of myths from different eras and continents—has influenced many pop scholars, including Greil Marcus. In our American Idol-ized culture, few myths loom larger than pop fame, which is why the philosopher and anthropologist might have had something to say about Top 40’s self-professed conceptual artist of the moment. In a way, he still does.



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