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Harlem Shake

Posted inLifestyle, Media

The Harlem Shake and Western illusion of freedom

Jason Hickel by Jason Hickel 28 March 20135 April 2013

Co-authored with Arsalan Khan When five teenagers in Queensland, Australia, uploaded a video of themselves dancing to a short excerpt of Baauer’s song Harlem Shake it immediately went viral, garnering some 400 million views and spawning well over 100 000 copycat versions. Critiques of the fad thus far have pointed out that it looks nothing at all […]

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