ANOWMEDIA.COMinANowMedia§79 The Meaning of Paying AttentionIn a recent podcast interview, Jordan Peterson brought attention to the problem of rationality in the existential quest to find ‘meaning’…Dec 14, 2018Dec 14, 2018
ANOWMEDIA.COMinANowMedia§78 Journalism: Occupational Incompetence and HazardMarketing has within a decade undergone a shift in form — from overt to covert promotion. Ours is the present in which ‘content’ triumphs…Dec 7, 2018Dec 7, 2018
ANOWMEDIA.COMinANowMedia§77 Concerning the Challenge of Prolific Fiction WritingWhen the philosopher, literary critic, feminist and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva added ‘novelist’ to her list of designations with The…Nov 29, 2018Nov 29, 2018
ANOWMEDIA.COMinANowMedia§76 On the Person-ality of the Personal ComputerThe relationship between mass-production and ‘the individual’ has never been straight forward. The alienating forms of labour associated…Nov 23, 2018Nov 23, 2018
ANOWMEDIA.COMinANowMedia§75 Towards a true university — resuscitating the passion of uselessnessFurther to a previous note ( “§72 Bluffing human sciences”) diagnosing the illiterate university the following provides George Steiner’s…Nov 16, 2018Nov 16, 2018
ANOWMEDIA.COMinANowMedia§74 ‘Love is in the Bin’: Incomplete intensions and inauthentic imitations– Part IIIn Note §68, I considered the tension between monetary value and artworks in light of the spectacle surrounding Banksy’s Love is in the…Nov 16, 2018Nov 16, 2018
ANOWMEDIA.COMinANowMedia§73 The Guilty in the CityMuch contemporary literature sees the city-spaces that are not inherently marked by capitalist exchanges as constituting positive forms of…Nov 9, 2018Nov 9, 2018
ANOWMEDIA.COMinANowMedia§72 Bluffing human sciencesOne of the aspects of the ‘intellectual dark web’ form of ‘public intellectualism’ (Weiss 2018) is the similarity to ancient gladiator…Nov 9, 2018Nov 9, 2018
ANOWMEDIA.COMinANowMedia§71 On Discipline and Comfort in Contemporary AcademiaWhile one of Foucault’s major contributions is the recognition of a transformational break around 1800 in terms of disciplinary power…Nov 2, 2018Nov 2, 2018
ANOWMEDIA.COMinANowMedia§70 Against academic transparencyJames Watson, the co-‘discoverer’ of the DNA molecule once said:Nov 2, 2018Nov 2, 2018