Deconstructing Survivor

The L.A. Times has an interesting piece on academia?s reluctant acceptance of television as a scholarly medium. NYU Professor Toby Miller claims the assumption that "academics are above and superior to the audience" has evolved into the idea that "we should be of the audience, and understand its pleasures."

Meanwhile, purists continue to cringe at the notion of a Nietzschean interpretation of Cosmo Kramer.