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Kirk Boyle

Kirk Boyle

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

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.

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  • About Us
    • Mission Statement
    • Editorial Policies
      • Call for Contributions
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    • Editors
      • Lawrence Webb
      • Elizabeth Patton
      • Noelle Griffis
      • Scott Rodgers
    • Editorial Board
    • Advisory Board
    • Our Partners
  • Current Issue
  • Archive
    • Volume 1 – 2015/2016
      • № 1 – December 2015
      • № 2 – March 2016
      • № 3 – June 2016
      • № 4 – August 2016
      • № 5 – November 2016
    • Volume 2 – 2017
      • № 1 – January/February 2017
      • № 2 – June 2017
      • № 3 – September 2017
      • № 4 – October/November 2017
      • № 5 – December 2017
    • Volume 3 – 2018
      • № 1 – January/February 2018
      • № 2 – June 2018
      • № 3 – October/November 2018
      • № 4 – December 2018
    • Volume 4 – 2019
      • № 1 – January/February 2019
      • № 2 – June 2019
      • № 3 – October/November 2019
    • Volume 5 – 2020
      • Vol. 5 № 1
      • Vol. 5 № 2
      • Vol. 5 № 3
      • Vol. 5 № 4
  • Resources
    • SIG Institutional History
      • Workshops
      • 2016 Workshop Proposal
      • Sponsored Events
    • Conference Presentations
      • 2008 – Philadelphia
      • 2009 – Tokyo
    • Course Syllabi
  • Sections
    • Dossiers
    • From the Archive
    • Mediapolis on Coronavirus
    • Opening the Canon
    • Q & A
    • Roundtables
    • Student Voices
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