Chapter 7. Even More Strange Stories of Desire: Cargo Cult in Popular Media

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28 mars 2018

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Here are a few recent (November 2009) popular references to “cargo cult”: A Boston Globe movie reviewer bashes: “’Planet 51’ is a cargo-cult movie - a piece of popculture flotsam that exists by scavenging pieces of other, better films” (Burr 2009: G8). A blogger, founder and CEO of a “cloud-based business intelligence startup headquartered in San Francisco,” warns that the European hi-tech ecosystem “bears some signs of a Cargo Cult” (Stanek 2009: np). And a Botswana Member of Parliament grum...

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