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Selections From
the Cosby Codex

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James Fleming’s Cosby Codex represents an attempt to offer the definitive theoretical reading of The Cosby Show, a foundational text in Late Postmodern Western Culture, or a multicultural, post-cognitive text par-excellence. He is a PhD student in Central Florida, where he resides with a very patient wife and ever-loyal dog.

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Selection 18: And So We Commence: Notes toward an Epilogue and Conclusion to the Cosby Codex (9/26/2011)

Selection 17: The Huxtable Narrative as Renaissance Political Allegory or Claire Huxtable’s Machiavellianism and Theo’s Lutheranism (9/16/2011)

Selection 16:
Thus Spake Cliff Huxtable: The Ever Nietzschian Cliff Huxtable or Some Thoughts On Cliff Huxtable as Übermensch
(8/1/2011)

Selection 15: The Huxtables and the Unknowable: Incommensurabilities and the Unknown in the Huxtable Narrative (7/14/2011)

Selection 14: Part Two of Toward a Conception of Blakian Prophetic Mythology in (and through) the Huxtable Narrative: The Many Worlds (and Multiple Histories) of Bill Cosby and the Quantum Suicide of Cliff Huxtable. (6/17/2011)

Selection 13: The Huxtables and the Disaster(s) of Olivia Kendall or Toward a Conception of Blakian Prophetic Mythology in (and Through) the Huxtable Narrative. PART ONE (5/31/2011)

Selection 12: Chaos, Psychonautics and Discordianism in the Huxtable Narrative: Russell, Cliff and Rudy Huxtable as Psychonauts and Chaos Magicians (5/16/2011)

Selection 11: Exit (and Enter) Author: Jeffrey Engles, “The Death of the Author,” “What is an Author?” and the Postmodern Castration of the Author Figure in the Huxtable Narrative (4/25/2011)

Selection 10: Conspiracy, Paranoia and Simulacra in the Huxtable Narrative or the Crying of 10 Stigwood Avenue (4/5/2011)

Selection 9: Yet another Interlude: The Huxtables and the Failures of the 1960s; Modernist Impressionism, Rorschach and Cliff’s Sweaters; and the (((im))possible) Confessions of an African-American Opium Eater (3/17/2011)

Selection 8: Contemporary American Political and Social Allegory in The Cosby Show or How Cliff Huxtable Learned to Suffer and Long for the Bomb (2/28/2011)

Selection 7: Love and Death on Stigwood Avenue; or The Huxtables and the Gift of Death; or, for That Matter, Toward a Vision of The David Crosby Codex (2/8/2011)

Selection 6: Interlude: The Trauma of “The Dentist,” New Perspectives, and Something of a Manifesto of Cosby Studies (1/19/2011)

Selection 5: On “The Dentist,” The Satanic Agency of Dr. Burns, Dr. Burns as Postmodern Renaissance Man, Worshipping the Clinic and Rudy’s Hetero-Ontological Superconciousness, Part One (1/3/2011)

Selection 4: Viewing The Cosby Show Between (and Through) the Textual Gaps or Why is there Only One Television in the Huxtable Household? (12/6/2010)

Selection 3: Seven Ways of Theorizing Theo Huxtable (11/15/2010)

Selection 2: Cliff Huxtable and His Problems, or The Superb Otherness of Cliff Huxtable (10/27/2010)

Selection 1: Ontological Ruptures and Worlds Under Erasure: The Cosby Show as Postmodern Narrative (10/11/2010)

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