In the case of prisons, abuse, Iraq, and reality TV, I think we learn that the reason scripted sit coms and regular TV programming is being displaced by Reality TV programming is, to put it
“Thus, as Adam Smith argued in his Theory of the Moral Sentiments, the individual must phrase his own concerns and feelings and interests in such a way as to make these maximally usable by the
one of today’s email exchanges One reason I think you’d like luhmann! he separates communication and interaction. Unlike w/ habermas, under luhmann’s approach you can put associate writing with the dissemination of communication, speech as
This from today’s NYT: Game companies are not like phone companies, which have a legal obligation to carry all speech over their lines. The Constitution does not protect speech once it has been signed away
I had this thought the other day. I don’t know if it qualifies as an insight or not, but it had that “aha” quality about it that thoughts sometimes have. To find out what a
Sampling It’s been said that a characteristic irony of this information age in which we live is that the more information we have the less informed we seem to be. For indeed, it would seem
