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On “Fear: A Cultural History”
Last night, I started reading Fear: A Cultural History by Joanna Bourke. I’ve had my eye on the book for a few weeks now, and finally picked it up at Borders yesterday. It’s the type of book I like,...
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A Non-Linear Coincidence
For my Science and Technology in Western Culture class, I’m reading Society and Technological Change by Rudi Volti. One of the assignments for the current module was to read Volti’s chapter on the...
View ArticleDoes capitalism manufacture desire?
Let’s take a closer look at this article by Timothy Garton Ash later: What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under...
View ArticleTelevision’s death rattles
I have this uninformed opinion that all forms of media constantly create their own buzz, and that interest in moronic “celebrities” like Paris Hilton is completely fabricated. And, once fabricated, the...
View Article“The Internet has Everything!”
A few days after I posted this brief rant about television, I saw this Computerworld article, Survey: Internet on the verge of surpassing TV as ‘essential medium’. The article describes a survey done...
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War as a Spectator Sport (Part One)
In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag writes: To designate a hell is not, of course, to tell us anything about how to extract people from that hell, how to moderate hell’s flames. Still, it...
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"No Time"
I was planning to pick a few of my internet clippings off del.icio.us this evening and spin out an article or two about them, but then came across this piece by Jason Kaneshiro at Webomatica: What I Do...
View ArticleIs This The World We Created?
If you follow my delicious bookmarks at all, you will have noticed that I’ve developed a bit of a macabre fascination with articles about the events that have come to be known as America’s Current...
View Article“We Are Living In Exponential Times”
From the following video comes a perspective on technology that illustrates the rapid, exponential pace of change since the 1990s – a pace unlike anything human beings have ever experienced. The video...
View ArticleLet’s Make Some (Fourth of July) Noise!
I heard a recording of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture for the first time in the mid-1980s, when I had just started buying classical music albums and a company called Telarc Records was pioneering digital...
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