you completly misunderstood the role of an author.
it's a job today, nothing else. freelancer, someone
who writes books and tries to sells them to publishers.
ghostwriters, those guys behind the president, who's names
only 1% of americans might know, those are the
"authors", functionaries of propa
The Corporate Media Engineers an Election By the Numbers
By Lloyd Hart
Never has there ever been a more profound example of the corporate media
engineering an election and yes I mean a more profound example than even
election 2000. I decided to keep track of this election statistically and
c
>And in some countries, it *is* free for all. Funnily enough, in France
>for example, the idea of the 'student as consumer', dictating what he or
>she wants to be taught, seems to be practically nonexistent, and there
>is a great deal less anti-intellectualism.
>
>Ben
Here in France, our prese
it is curious if the recall will be the defining event
that seals the political (and economic and social)
coffin for the foreseeable future in the .US, to then
play out as a sequence of events determined by it.
[that is, premeditated, game plan already in place]
commentators indicate that 'as goe
Nato Thompson:
> For intellectuals. I suspect this issue is larger than the classroom.
It is. For a full accounting of anti-intellectualism, I think we'd have
to go back thousands of years. At least as far back as Plato, who in
his dialogue "Theatetus" tells what was already an ancient story ab
An interesting thread. The real problem with the American educational
system is that standards are not high enough. Public universities are
packed with students who simply should not be in college. This policy
that everyone's son or daughter should be able to go to college is
ludicrous and devalues
Nato Thompson wrote:
(...)
>"Intellectuals" (and I don't have nearly as much antipathy for them as
>Mr. Flagan) could really use a PR team. But what would that require?
>Possibly having things to say that are important to everyday people.
>Maybe having a visible platform to discuss ideas (Possess
> Theory is necessary,
> but practice has a much greater ethical value than theory. It is your
> actions that determine which side you are really on.
>
> Ben
btw the stained glass of notre dame were paid by different guild of paris &
as it seems so gratefull to sponsor zuch nice material for each
"the irony of this all is that most 'new media' programs -- as in the
ones suffering from discontents (and they certainly do, in large part
because their terrain is ageing 'in internet years') -- are more akin to
polytechnic programs than humanities departments. as such, they
*do* tend to be more p
> From: geert lovink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:03 PM
>
> I asked Mr. Muscle's PR people to comment on the new Enron
> memos -- and his strange silence on Bustamante's suit or Davis'
> petition. But Arnold was too busy shaving off his Hitlerian
> mustache to resp
monica ross wrote:
> Yes, some people are getting paid and others are paying - in some
> countries, including ones rich enough for it to be free to all.
And in some countries, it *is* free for all. Funnily enough, in France
for example, the idea of the 'student as consumer', dictating what he or
Hiya,
>bring me the head of Oliver Cromwell the traitor (buried somewhwere in
>the precincts of a
>Cambridge college)
The skull is kept in a wooden box in Sidney Sussex college - and supposedly
can be seen on request.
>that I may relive my bowls within that most disapointing of craniums.
The g
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