Tabla de Contenidos: “…Homo imago -- Richard Hamilton, or The tabular image -- Roy Lichtenstein, or The cliche image -- Andy Warhol, or The distressed image -- Gerhard Richter, or The photogenic image -- Ed Ruscha, or The deadpan image -- Pop test…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Europe as a site of international sporting diplomacy -- "Shooting Hoops with Foreign Teams" / The Ghana Young Pioneers / "The Russian deadpan expert" vs "America's white hope" / A forgotten "ping-pong diplomacy"? …”

“…Cringely reveals the manias and foibles of these men (they are always men) with deadpan hilarity and cogently demonstrates how their neuroses have shaped the computer business. …”

“…Evoking the history of indeterminacy as much as that of institutional critique, the deadpan composition of Adams’s photographs likewise recalls François Jullien’s theory of bland aesthetics, in a playful reductio of socio-institutional space to a bare literality. …”

“…At the same time, a "Hollandse school," a term first coined in the 1980's, has developed through deadpan, ironic films like those of director and actor Alex van Warmerdam. …”