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Dr. Gonzalez's work serves as an extraordinarily capacious yet succinct guide to political philosophy that uses Star Trek and other popular culture texts as a base and an allegorical framework. -- David Greven, author of Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek and Intimate Violence: Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory

Dr. Gonzalez's work serves as an extraordinarily capacious yet succinct guide to political philosophy that uses Star Trek and other popular culture texts as a base and an allegorical framework. -- David Greven, author of Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek George Gonzalez has written a thought provoking ideological analysis of widely watched television series such as Star Trek, House of Cards, Black List, and Breaking Bad to document how popular culture has narrated the decline of U.S. democracy and the rise of authoritarian neoliberalism over the last 25 years. Gonzalez's book directly challenges previous scholarly writing on the topic. He not only debunks widely accepted (and misguided) interpretations of these television series, but he demonstrates that serious political theory can be excavated from popular culture and intellectuals who denigrate it miss an important aspect of how ideology is conveyed and criticized in otherwise quotidian outlets. He uses Star Trek in particular to articulate a realistic alternative future based on a classless, egalitarian, democratic, and post-scarcity form of communism. -- Clyde W. Barrow, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

Dr. Gonzalez's work serves as an extraordinarily capacious yet succinct guide to political philosophy that uses Star Trek and other popular culture texts as a base and an allegorical framework. -- David Greven, author of Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek and Intimate Violence: Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory George Gonzalez has written a thought provoking ideological analysis of widely watched television series such as Star Trek, House of Cards, Black List, and Breaking Bad to document how popular culture has narrated the decline of U.S. democracy and the rise of authoritarian neoliberalism over the last 25 years. Gonzalez's book directly challenges previous scholarly writing on the topic. He not only debunks widely accepted (and misguided) interpretations of these television series, but he demonstrates that serious political theory can be excavated from popular culture and intellectuals who denigrate it miss an important aspect of how ideology is conveyed and criticized in otherwise quotidian outlets. He uses Star Trek in particular to articulate a realistic alternative future based on a classless, egalitarian, democratic, and post-scarcity form of communism. -- Clyde W. Barrow, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

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George A. Gonzalez is professor of political science at the University of Miami.

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