UNLOCK 28.1 Adam Johnson Exposes the Sophistry of Fart Sniffers

UNLOCK 28.1 Adam Johnson Exposes the Sophistry of Fart Sniffers

A coda to my interview with journalist and media critic Adam Johnson on how the genocide got sold. Here I zoom in on Adam's affect — the rhetorical technique he uses to puncture what I'm calling the habitus of liberal political discourse.

Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of embodied social capital, I analyze two moments where institutional power reasserts itself through laughter and procedure: State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller deflecting AP reporter Matt Lee's questions about Gaza with schoolboy metaphors, and Mark Carney laughing off a Grassy Narrows First Nation grandmother demanding justice for decades of mercury poisoning.

I contrast this with Adam Johnson's use of bathos and polysyndeton — visceral, low-register language that breaks the spell.

Sources:

UNRWA — Gaza child amputees statement, December 2025

OHCHR — Gaza disabilities report, August 2025

Institute for Palestine Studies — Blinken/Austin letter full text

Al Majalla — Blinken/Austin letter full text

Times of Israel — Miller/Lee briefing context, November 5, 2024

American Academy of Diplomacy — Matt Lee bio

CBC News — Carney / Isaacs / Etobicoke press conference

APTN News — Isaacs accepts Carney's challenge

APTN News — Western University / Dryden Mill study, 2024

National Observer — Western University study, May 2024

CBC News — ISC budget cuts, July 2025

CBC News — Indigenous budget 2025, November 2025

Marxists.org — Junius Pamphlet

DigitalCommons@UNL — Goodman & Silverstein, Bourdieu in Algeria

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UNLOCK 33.1 Antifascist Body Culture: A Brief History

UNLOCK 33.1 Antifascist Body Culture: A Brief History

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UNLOCKED 31.1 Kensington Market Palimpsest

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UNLOCK 30.1 The Left Didn't Betray Anyone: Material Conditions and the Limits of Rockhill

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