Dr. Kate Writes About The Wire

Wed, 10 Jun 2015 13:51:36 -0400

It has been 13 years since The Wire first aired on television, and Baltimore City Paper pulled together writers to reflect on what the show has meant to and for the city. Check out Dr. Kate's contribution here! “The Wire” is great drama, and it presents a more complicated vision of the structural roots of the inequalities made so vivid in an afternoon bike ride around Baltimore than we see in most television—or any public discourse, really. It can’t capture the quotidian of all of us, the ways and places we meet each other and make worlds together and apart under conditions not of our own choosing but that we agitate to change. “The Wire” is just a television show, and its complexity can make us think, erroneously, that we understand the depths of the place, and, more dangerously, the people. Baltimore and Baltimoreans exceed Simon’s narratives, and the part where his narratives are so good makes it all the more important to remind ourselves of our own excess. - See more at: http://www.citypaper.com/news/columns/field-tripping/bcpnews-field-tripping-biking-the-wire-20150602,0,3951181.story#sthash.XyEGmzei.dpuf