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• W838007555 abstract "THE SOCIAL UNREST THAT RAGED ACROSS ENGLAND IN AUGUST 2011 WAS SHOCKING not merely for the magnitude and severity of the violence but also for the polarizing reaction of the UK's heteroglossia. Prime Minister David Cameron's response (1) was to label every participants' raison d'etre as criminality, pure and simple. Simultaneously, celebrated Hackney Heroine. (2) Pauline Pearce claimed that, for much of the youth involved, the violence grew from a tendency to turn inwards and an inability to a way out. Online forums and message boards became the scene of continuous volleying between the self-proclaimed voices of Left and Right. Those who condemned were out of touch and elitist while those who sought to forgive were weak apologists. Largely absent was the notion that the riots were caused by enormously complex and conflicting factors and that people with wildly differing objectives were involved. Observing the discourse (3) of the post-riot sparring, one began to form the impression that the public only had an appetite for reductive, media-led simplicity--good or evil, black or white, pure or tainted. This approach can be observed in recent social phenomena from the War on Terror to the Occupy protest groups and the newfound pariah status of corporate business in London and New York. It may be worth stating at this juncture that I have some vested interest in the issue. As a teacher who worked with London's youth for many years, I found it thoroughly dispiriting to see broad brush-strokes of condemnation used in analysis of the events across English cities. Yet, simultaneously, I am a property owner and law-abiding citizen who sees no worth in directionless violence, as much of this certainly was. The conflicting nature of my own responses and puzzled engagement with the media meant that I simply did not know which side to take: the bloodthirsty Right or the geographically distant apologies of the bourgeois Left. I searched the media for someone to help me or at least to empathize with my confusion, yet all I found was a continual gnashing of righteous teeth and increasingly polarized entrenchment. When I looked elsewhere in the news for distraction I was suddenly all too aware that every item--from the coverage of sports to local issues as banal as refuse collection and street lighting--were dealt with in the same reductive, sensationalist manner. Language and discourse were diminished to the level of insult, quip or slogan, designed for rapid impact rather than lengthy, rational debate. All in all, I felt a profound crisis of interpretation in the manner in which we in the UK were responding to events unfolding around us. Rather than engaging with complexity we were desperate for simplicity, eager to join camps with readymade and bite-size ideologies. What was necessary was a voice advocating a more nuanced approach, an approach that allowed confusion and moral uncertainty; perhaps an approach not too dissimilar to that of Norman Mailer. It is not the intention of this paper to offer a sociological or economic explanation for the riots or even to explore the subsequent ocean of volatile rhetoric. Instead, I wish to lament a spirit of public intellectualism that engages with complexity and paradox, a spirit embodied by the writing, both fictional and journalistic, of Norman Mailer. Writing that encourages its reader to admit that absolutes are difficult to locate or it may not exist at all. Writing that ushers in a mood of public debate that is less hysterical and more, well, grown up. Placing Mailer in a theoretical context through a range of commentators as divergent as Derrida, Lyotard and Goffman will illustrate my argument that an articulate and literate public benefit from an encounter with Mailer's work. That he is such a divisive public figure, one that freely admits to his own tangle of contradictory facets, adds to my regard for him as a stimulus to brave the crosswinds of debate and analysis. …" @default.
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• W838007555 title "Never So Simple: Why We Should Learn from Mailer's Engagement with Complexity" @default.
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