9/11 – What's A Geek

Pam Punzalan February 17, 2016February 8, 2016 0 Comments 9/11, academic discourse, dystopia, global politics, panopticon, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, vietnam war, war on terror, young adult fiction

‘The Hunger Games’ – Spectacle, Panopticon & a Culture of Paranoia [3/3]

Here's the third and last installment of a series of posts on The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. You can find the first post over here, and the second post over here. Please note that all of the articles collected under this series will contain spoilers for The Hunger Games trilogy. You’ve been warned! (more…)

Book Review Literature

Pam Punzalan February 10, 2016February 7, 2016 0 Comments 9/11, academic discourse, panopticon, september 11 2001, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, war on terror

‘The Hunger Games’ – Spectacle, Panopticon & a Culture of Paranoia [2/3]

Here's the second in a series of posts on The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. You can find the first post over here. Please note that all of the articles collected under this series will contain spoilers for The Hunger Games trilogy. You’ve been warned! (more…)

Book Review Literature

Pam Punzalan February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 0 Comments 9/11, academic discourse, panopticon, september 11 2001, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, war on terror

‘The Hunger Games’ – Spectacle, Panopticon & a Culture of Paranoia [1/3]

In the spirit of producing “scholarly” dissections of geeky things for What’s a Geek, this series of posts revisits an old analysis I did of The Hunger Games. The original version of the paper that these posts cover was written way before the movies came out. However, in the spirit of discourse and even out of…