This Is Not A Pipe

Ian Reilly discusses his book Media Hoaxing: The Yes Men and Utopian Politics with Chris Richardson. Reilly is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University. Reilly’s research explores the intersections of politics, humor, civic engagement, and media activism. He is the author of Media Hoaxing: The Yes Men and Utopian Politics (2018), published by Lexington Books. His work has appeared in numerous publications and book collections; in 2012, he was awarded the Carl Bode Award for Outstanding Article published in the Journal of American Culture. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on humor, youth and media, Internet politics, visual communication, media criticism, telecommunications policy, and media history.

"My friend, Art Spiegelman, who very graciously provided the cover for the book, initially wanted to put Trump on the cover and I said, no, no, you can’t do that."

"It's only a taste, a fragment of what Bowie must have experienced, but I really feel my head got in a strange space during that period of time."

"I was feeling something that I couldn't articulate."

"A language around livelihoods has the possibility of helping people to see their own lives differently and to appreciate who they already are in a different way."

"Those kinds of neat categories seem to be breaking down quite a bit. We see more and more industry reaching out to create transformative works."

"My decision to take on that labor had everything to do with the fact that I didn't have someone like me available. I didn't have anyone to help me demystify the process of the academy."

"This is one of the paradigmatic examples where the 'worlds' and 'words' come together and impact each other."

"As much as they want to add up to a grand unifying reading that says, "this, exactly, is America," I think that there's something that always goes astray."

"Many people are obviously aware that this nation was founded on a system of slavery, but what many people don't know is that the origins of policing in the United States can be traced to the institution of slavery."