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19 Mar 09

Jan Blommaert, "Het verraad der klerken"

over de plaats van de intellectueel in de publieke sfeer. Vergelijkbaar met Furedi's "Waar zijn de intellectuelen?"

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06 Oct 08

Islam Through Western Eyes

"The media have become obsessed with something called "Islam," which in their voguish lexicon has acquired only two meanings, both of them unacceptable and impoverishing. "

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critic culture media religion islam said

  • only two meanings, both of them unacceptable and impoverishing
  • represents the threat of a resurgent atavism
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21 Jul 08

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

  • information is a kind of commodity, a utilitarian resource that can be mined and processed with industrial efficiency. The more pieces of information we can “access” and the faster we can extract their gist, the more productive we become as thinkers
    • For those who still read books, this reminds me somewhat of Jean Baudrillard's 'The Ecstasy of Communication':
      "Obscenity begins when there's no more spectacle, no more stage, no more theatre, no more illusions, when everything becomes immediately transparant, visible, exposed in the raw and inexorable light of information and communication. We no longer partake of the drama of alienation, but are in the ecstasy of communication."
      - on 2008-07-21
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