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The Sign of the Joker: The Clown Prince of Crime as a Sign

By (author) Joel West

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Listen to the podcast about this book. The Joker both fascinates and repels us. From his origin in Detective Comics in 1940, he has committed obscene crimes, some of the worst the Batman universe has ever known, and, conversely, fans have made him the topic of erotic and pornographic â€œfan fiction.â€ Speculation about the Joker abounds, where some fans have even claimed that the Joker is â€œqueer coded.â€ This work explores various popular claims about the Joker, and delves into the history of comic books, and of other popular media from a semiotic viewpoint to understand â€œThe Clown Prince of Crimeâ€ in the contexts in which he existed to understand his evolution in the past. From his roots as a â€œtypical hoodlum,â€ The Joker even starred in his own eponymous comic book series and he was recently featured in a non-canonical movie. This work examines what it is about the Joker which fascinates us.

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The Order of Time

Carlo Rovelli
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224 pages
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Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).

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The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future

Mustafa Suleyman
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Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics

Carlo Rovelli
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