Feelings of YouTube Inadequacy |
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(May 30, 2008)Over at Lance Strate's Blog Time Passing, Lance discusses the new heroes created by the internet and features a hilarious South Park clip lampooning YouTube celebrities. Ma...
Posted by Bob Blechman on Sat, 31 May 2008 05:24:00 PST |
Beating Golf Clubs Into Swords |
President Bush chooses war over golf.
In a recent interview with Politico, President Bush admitted that he had given up golf in deference the families who have lost a loved one in Iraq.
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Posted by Bob Blechman on Sat, 17 May 2008 10:05:00 PST |
Meta Four Play 4 - McLuhans Tetrad and Lévi-Strauss Canonical Formula: Down the Rabbit Hole |
My previous posts on this topic, which can be found here, here and here attempted to link the process of mythic analysis proposed by Claude Lévi-Strauss in his Canonical Formula with Marshall Mc...
Posted by Bob Blechman on Fri, 09 May 2008 01:39:00 PST |
Education in the Age of Secondary Orality |
The first humans lived under conditions of primary orality. Individual memory was the only way to transmit cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Learning was based on oral modes with para...
Posted by Bob Blechman on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:47:00 PST |
Something Wiki This Way Comes |
If you spend any time browsing the YouTube, you’ve probably seen the Media Ecological videos produced by Kansas State University Professor of Cultural Anthropology Michael Wesch. In his vi...
Posted by Bob Blechman on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:32:00 PST |
Randi Rhodes and The First Amendment |
Air America Radio Suspends Randi Rhodes For Using the "W" WordIn the 1919 case Schenk v. The United States, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speec...
Posted by Bob Blechman on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:39:00 PST |
A Modest Proposal to Camille Paglia |
I notice that Camille Paglia has recently returned to blogging on Salon with her usual acerbic take on modern culture. Paglia was absent from Salon for a while due to the demands of working on ...
Posted by Bob Blechman on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:01:00 PST |
Meta Four Play Part 3 - McLuhans Tetrad and Lévi-Strauss Canonical Formula |
"I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men’s minds without their being aware of the fact." - Claude Lévi-Strauss (1) In my posts on January 8 and J...
Posted by Bob Blechman on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:37:00 PST |
This Just In From the Washington Post: Women Are Dim |
Sometimes, women are their own worst advocates.Sunday's Washington Post didn't see anything wrong with running an Op Ed piece by Charlotte Allen, We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get?Allen ar...
Posted by Bob Blechman on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:23:00 PST |
Makeup Your Mind: Reflections On Cosmetics And Sports Illustrateds Swimsuit Issue |
A level playing field may apply in sports, but not in gender relations.
Sports Illustrated's annual paean to impossible feminine perfection celebrates an arbitrary nature/culture dis...
Posted by Bob Blechman on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:25:00 PST |
