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

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

By Kirk Boyle

Any mass media phenomenon as big as The X-Files, the hit television series that initially aired on Fox from 1993 to 2002, will serve as a cultural Rorschach Test. How critics read X-Files will tell us as much about …