Books:
recently...Palahniuk's Choke... "By intangibles, she meant the Internet, movies, music, stories, art, rumors, computer programs, anything that isn't real. Virtual realities. Make-believe stuff. The Culture. The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think, she said. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you can do that, you can change the way people live their lives. And that's the only lasting thing you can create."and over my head, there's always New Theories of Discourse... "The point is not whether the demands for free and undistorted communication are realized and the freeing of essential human aspirations from repressive forms of power carried through. What we need to ask is: what scope is there for pursuing political strategies of resistance, dissent and pragmatic experimentation in the field of mass media in order to change the state of affairs so it accords more with the values we cherish? What potential is there for mobilizing subjugated knowledges, for playing out different values against each other, and for advancing new political projects?"so really, which is fiction, which is non? and which is more effective, the pop-culture or the theory?