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Posted on August 22, 2018

“All are drawn unwittingly into the structure of violent reciprocity -which they always think they are outside of” – a thought from René Girard

“All are drawn unwittingly into the structure of violent reciprocity -which they always think they are outside of- because they all initially come from the outside and mistake this positional…

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Posted on December 31, 2017December 31, 2017

“someone who is abnormally normal” – Christopher Bollas, Adam deVille, social media, and the “normotic” self

Adam de Ville, who who I have linked to before, has a fascinating post on Christopher Bollas, and how he (deVille) came to an appreciation of the enduring insights of…

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Posted on September 16, 2016September 16, 2016

Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death 31 years on

I read quite a lot of Neil Postman about a decade ago. Always a readable and provocative voice, I must admit I take him rather less seriously since reading more…

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Posted on September 16, 2016November 15, 2018

The cultural hegemony of television: review of “Everything Bad is Good For You” by Steven Johnson – SAU Blog Dec 6, 2006

  One of the disheartening things (for me) about how the online world has developed is the primacy of television as a cultural reference point. In the early years of…

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Posted on September 18, 2015

A Theatre of Pure Stichomythia: Twitter and the Tragic. Nthposition, June 2011

Four years on and I tweet sporadically . I despise the perpetual hype machine that is social media, the endless churning of self-righteousness and cheap enthusiasm. I also tend to get caught…

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