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The World Ozymandias Made: Utopias in the Superhero Comic, Subculture, and the Conservation of Difference
Author(s) -
WolfMeyer Matthew
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
the journal of popular culture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.238
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1540-5931
pISSN - 0022-3840
DOI - 10.1111/1540-5931.00019
Subject(s) - subculture (biology) , comics , hero , hierarchy , sociology , aesthetics , literature , art , political science , law , botany , biology
Revolution is the triumph of freedom; its organization is based on spontaneity, not on the dictates of a “hero” who imposes himself through violence. It is a continuous and systematic elevation of a people, following the lines of a hierarchy, and creating for itself one by one the organs that the new social life demands.