Utilizing the format of "fan fiction" as a template, with this piece
Bradley has attempted to offer a critique of spectacular/mediated
culture, as well as the revolutionary politics which seek to abolish it,
from within the very mediated, alienated confines this discourse seeks
to transcend. Drawing on the radical theories of Guy Debord and the
Situationist International, as well as post-war existentialism, science
fiction, and apocalyptic traditions ranging from the Old Testament to
today's "Conspiracy Culture," Bradley has created a fictional exercise
in détournement in which he turns two popular television franchises on
their heads. "High School Musical" and "Star Trek: the Next Generation"
are the détourned subjects, the former a counterrevolutionary tour de
force best summed up in its own show-stopping song and dance number
"Stick to the Status Quo," the latter with its utopian pretensions and
collectivist, Marxist vision of a "United Federation of Planets," a
futuristic nod to today's push for a globally regulated socialist power
structure.