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Scene partners - by Rob Horning - Internal exile

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One consistent takeaway from Nathan Fielder's work is don't trust anyone who wants to put you on television. You might know that you are going to be exploited for entertainment and even believe you can play it to your advantage, but you remain at a structural disadvantage. You are being recruited to perform in a spectacle whose rules are subject to change before, during, or after the fact.

One consistent takeaway from Nathan Fielder's work is don't trust anyone who wants to put you on television. You might know that you are going to be exploited for entertainment and even believe you can play it to your advantage, but you remain at a structural disadvantage. You are being recruited to perform in a spectacle whose rules are subject to change before, during, or after the fact. This is especially obvious in Fielder's old pieces for This Hour Has 22 Minutes, "Nathan on Your Side." (He's not.) In this clip, for instance, he goes to an electronics store circa 2004 to talk about MP3…

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