Yves Citton – Thomas Travers

Re-iteration and Recongifuration in Crime 101 and Tuner

In Mythocracy, Yves Citton makes a distinction between two types of ‘attractors’ that are deployed by cultural producers to first grab and second hold attention. The first type of attractor is the ‘hook’, which operates on the level of initial perception and strives for visibility in a media ecology saturated with attention seeking content. HooksContinue reading “Re-iteration and Recongifuration in Crime 101 and Tuner”

Redburn: Labor and Literature

Anglophone histories of the novel often note that a separation of literary value from entertainment value takes place around the advent of modernism. In contrast to the social content that drives Victorian narrative fiction, style becomes the subject of the modernist novel, whose impulse towards formal innovation – making it new – occludes prior conventionsContinue reading “Redburn: Labor and Literature”

Whose Myth are You: Mythocracy by Yves Citton

Several months ago, I listened to a podcast on Quinn Slobodian’s most recent book Hayek’s Bastards (2025), in which he referred to the scripts and narratives used to orientate oneself in the world as forming the ‘supply-side’ of political populism. Whilst the ‘demand-side’ considers the nebulous factors that lure voters towards populist figures, the ‘supply-side’,Continue reading “Whose Myth are You: Mythocracy by Yves Citton”