1. Cultural Studies' discourse on beauty: I cite Roland Barthes' mythology "Garbo" and Donna Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto."

2. Feminist Theory, for instance, Laura Mulvey's work on spectral identification.

3. Hot theorists such as Walter Benjamin, Avitol Ronell, and Gilles Deleuze attract a kind of fan identification from academics.

4. Achieving credibility in the academy is a matter of aligning yourself with "great thinkers" (translation, 'academic hotshots') who provide argumentative proofs.