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  • Epideictics I: the Will of the People

    Epideictics I: the Will of the People

      The new Joker feature film is pretty good! For a children’s movie, anyway. On the surface, the story instantiates once again the grittier-and-grittier conceit of contemporary Hollywood regarding comic-book characters that are often comically simple enough to be comical simpliciter.  Yet: no one believes that “Batman”  stories are real, but everyone’s able to place batmen on a…