Kirk Boyle

Kirk Boyle is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Asheville. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Humor (Bedford St. Martin’s, 2017) and co-editor of The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television: Twenty-First-Century Bust Culture (Lexington Books, 2013). His scholarly work appears in The Žižek Dictionary, Film-Philosophy, Jump Cut, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, the International Journal of Žižek Studies, Postscript, and the Journal of Philosophy and Scripture.

Deep Dives, no. 3, vol. 2September 15, 2017<September 17, 2017

The Truth is Outsourcing: Notes on the Post-Industrial Spaces of The X-Files

Kirk Boyle looks anew at The X-Files, finding in Mulder and Scully evidence of the coming of the post-industrial society.