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PhD research topic

Transnational comic satire, corporate abuse in a hyperglobalised age, and the footprint of pathological narcissism

The satire of hyperglobalisation – set in a world of proliferation, fragmentation, and identity confusion – is an emerging field in which the target is not an individual wrongdoer or specific flaw, but the failings of global, interdependent networks of power. To obscure their activities and shield themselves from critique, institutions exploit deflective communication tactics, geographical spread, and time shifts (through simultaneity, speed, or its lack.) I adopt the framework of the narcissistic system, another network of corrupted power, to reveal and analyse how transnational satire operates under such complexity. 

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