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A Clear Example of Postmodern Media Participation
DISCLAIMER: I know I’m getting up there in age, but there’s still enough bark in me to yap when something chafes my understanding of media and postmodernism. This is a story about media,...
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Deconstructing Narratives
In the study of postmodernism, one is confronted with the concept of narratives — overarching and comprehensive accounts of events, experiences, and social and cultural phenomena based on an appeal to...
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The Postmodern Expertise Conundrum
Here’s an interesting question for the experts of our world. What do you do when the knowledge you possess that qualifies you as an expert becomes common? Is your speciality really necessary anymore,...
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Deconstructing Life, A Series
When we awaken each morning, we do so from within the confines of life under the sun. By that I mean all the beauty, emotions, and grandeur of that which our animal senses provide. Unfortunately, it...
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The True Importance of Love
Image by skeeze from Pixabay Love is a one-way force that begins at the source and flows out of each of us towards others. What’s the source? Life itself, and the source of everything within which we...
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Postmodernism Marches On (Although Most Still Don’t See It)
Postmodernism — that is the new cultural era brought about by the advent of the internet and the web — is advancing far from the sight of those whose oxen are being gored in the process. Call it what...
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The Underlying Fallacy of Fake News
Courtesy Austin Schmid A vast wave of intellectual dishonestly is cresting above us in the argument about fake news. That it is actually taken seriously by the press is perhaps the most dangerous event...
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In defense of (some) Trump supporters
Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yell at reporters as they arrive for a campaign rally, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, in Cincinnati, Ohio. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) You may think me...
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Resistance is the postmodern way
Up in Manitoba Canada, a Star Trek fan has had to give up his personalized Borg license plate ASIMIL8 because it was judged offensive to indigenous people. The Borg, of course, are a fictional evil...
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War Propaganda as “Weaponized Narrative”
Weaponized Narrative Is the New Battlespace is a fascinating and highly perceptive take on the use of manipulating narrative to impact culture. The idea is that individuals, institutions, and nations...
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Just the facts
Dragnet’s Sgt. Joe Friday The principal assumption of modernity – the human era governed by logic and reason – is that there is an attainable objectivity when it comes to facts, even when applied to...
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Using the Bible to justify selfishness
Luke 10:25-37 (NIV) The Parable of the Good Samaritan 25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 “What is written...
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Understanding “Alternative Facts”
Here’s a little perspective on the matter before us: Marketers have been lying to us since the days of the snake oil salesman. I’ve told the story before of the TV commercial I witnessed many years ago...
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Journalism’s “post-truth” era
There has been much public weeping and gnashing of teeth by professional journalism observers in the wake of the industry’s (is it an industry or a trade?) loss in November with the election of Donald...
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Of Spectators and Participants
In response to many questions years ago about the nature of postmodernism as a cultural era, I described it as the “Age of Participation,” for technology was making it possible for us to participate in...
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The coming war on (social media) incitement
This is a warning for this generation and the one to come: There is no more dangerous claim we face as a free people today than the hierarchical, authoritarian charge of incitement. This is such an...
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1968 just called, wants its mood back
Puppet masters are at work online As Donald Trump continues his effort to seize the law and order position in the wake of continuing violence on America’s streets (“Make America Safe Again”), the whole...
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A postmodern view of today’s political chaos
We come to know our own minds only by explaining ourselves to others. Christopher Lasch My Nashville blogger friend Rex Hammock reminded me this week of a wonderful quote from President John F. Kennedy...
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Our neverending civil war
Let’s look at the Donald Trump phenomenon through a slightly different lens, shall we? I’ve often written in describing postmodernism that horizontal connectivity makes impossible many axioms of...
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The horizontal church
Let’s get one thing absolutely straight about institutions, postmodernity, and the Great Horizontal, a.k.a. the age of participation: hierarchies are inefficient, self-centered, and therefore,...
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