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“From here to the rest of the world”: Telephone Imagines Action in David Simon’s The Wire
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“From here to the rest of the world”: Telephone Imagines Action in David Simon’s The Wire

Abstract When David Simon’s acclaimed HBO series, The Wire, presents Baltimore Police Department’s wiretap detail as a model of effective policing, no one thinks–or should think–that Simon proposes to fix Baltimore’s socioeconomic problems with surveillance technology. The Wire’s realism is not mimetic insofar that the eponymous wire that establishes the show’s aesthetic unity is not...