Why Pop Torture?

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Literary + TV + music + everything but the kitchen sink. Maybe that too.

Why torture?

torture | ˈtôrCHər | 

noun | the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain. 

• great physical or mental suffering or anxiety: the torture I've gone through because of loving you so. 

• a cause of suffering or anxiety: dances were absolute torture because I was so small. 

verb [with object] | inflict severe pain on: most of the victims had been brutally tortured. 

• cause great mental suffering or anxiety to: he was tortured by grief. 

In Pop Torture’s case, torture is a noun. Pop is torture, but also how can we torture pop? Torture is ultimately cruel punishment when enacted on something or someone, but can it be a useful tool to analyze language? Art? If the purpose of torture it to get to the nitty gritty— maybe that’s exactly why its necessary to torture pop culture.

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