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April 16, 2013

Child, Nerd and Tax Relief: A Tale of Three Frames

Last week MSNBC ran a Public Service Announcement that featured anchor Melissa Harris-Perry. Here’s a quote from that PSA: We have never invested as much in public education as we should have. We haven’t had a very collective notion of, these are our children. We have to break through our private idea that children belong to […]

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February 21, 2013

What’s So Social About Machine Media? (1 of 2)

In the beginning there was “grunt media”—communication centered on a series of modulated grunts, groans, yelps, yells, screeches, coos, etc. Next came oral media—communication centered on a group of people sitting around telling stories. The history of communication media continues thus—media centered on communicating via… …clay tablets and a system of glyphs (typically about food […]

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December 11, 2012

Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 10)

To refresh your memory, here’s my “sum the sum” from part 9 of my summary of Hamlet’s Blackberry: Squeeze-and-pop patterns are about how when the body is traumatized, a desire to escape into the dissociative worlds that open as a result of that trauma, is created. Squeeze-and-pop patterns have been around since the beginning of recorded […]

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November 15, 2012

Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 8A)

I ended part 8 by asking three questions: What’s the problem that digital technologies attempt to solve? What’s the “distance” aspect of this problem? Are solutions being brought about through greater levels of abstraction? In this part, which I am calling “8A”, I’d like to take a first pass at answering these questions before continuing […]

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November 8, 2012

Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 7)

To refresh your memory, here’s my “sum the sum” from part 6 of my summary of Hamlet’s Blackberry: There seems to be a backlash forming against digital busyness, a backlash that philanthropists could potentially support. Generally, one of the names this backlash goes by is the Slow Life Movement: slow food, slow parenting, slow travel, even […]

Archive for George Lakoff – Page 6

Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 10)

Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 8A)

Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 7)

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