Many academics and social scientists express great admiration for The Wire, largely because of
its uncanny ability to portray various commonly ignored truths about contemporary urban
America. What often goes unacknowledged, however, is that the act of presenting these truths in
the form of a fictionalized TV drama constitutes a unique, and quite radical, critique of the
existing politics (and economics) of academic knowledge production. How does The Wire teach
social/political concepts that go beyond textbook knowledge?.
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1. Many academics and social scientists express great admiration for The Wire, largely because of
its uncanny ability to portray various commonly ignored truths about contemporary urban
America. What often goes unacknowledged, however, is that the act of presenting these truths in
the form of a fictionalized TV drama constitutes a unique, and quite radical, critique of the
existing politics (and economics) of academic knowledge production. How does The Wire teach
social/political concepts that go beyond textbook knowledge?
