Posts tagged: media

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  Steve Bell walks with the zombies

  To celebrate the publication of If…Stands Up, the award-winning former Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell writes about his first encounters with Margaret Thatcher and other horrors.
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  How LAPD chief William H. Parker influenced the depiction of policing on the TV show Dragnet

  LAPD Chief William H. Parker was initially wary of Dragnet but also saw the opportunity to publicize his views on law and order. LAPD advisors closely examined the script to guarantee that the LAPD officers on Dragnet were ethical, efficient, terse and white.

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  Byung-Chul Han: Shanzhai Theory

  There are three kinds of idiots: those who can count, and those who can’t. The ones who can count are obsessed with debunking received ideas and finding the hidden truth behind it. They measure things, calculate, and through the rigorous use of their own idiosyncratic reasoning they know why the earth is flat. Then there’s idiots who want to diverge from received ideas but are more playful, willful, intentionally absurd. Byung-Chul Han reminds us of this kind of idiocy which Deleuze thought characteristic of the philosopher. Is Han this kind of special idiot? Maybe.

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  The Pundit

  Opinion columns were designed by God to have the same lifespan as a croissant.

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  Bigotry, Biggar, and The Daily Mail: Brief Reflections

  Priyamvada Gopal responds to the racist attacks on her work in the British tabloids. 

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  What Does That Make You? Public Narration and the Serial Murders of Black Women

  By and large, contemporary social movements have failed to account for black women like the victims of serial killers in Peoria, Los Angeles, and Cleveland.

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  What Would the Frankfurt School Think of Social Media?

  Today we might say the most relevant place to look for ideology in the world of culture is online, on social media.

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  Philosophy, Race, and the Right-Wing Press

  Much of the UK tabloids' coverage of SOAS students’ demands is an unedifying combination of 1980s “loony Left” bashing and Trumpism.

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  Thugs and Journalists

  The repetition of words like “thug” and “gang” in media coverage of anti-fascist demonstrators suggests the degree to which mainstream journalists, and centrists more widely, understand challenges to the state in the same euphemisms with which they express their own deep anti-blackness.

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  TL;DR: This Attention Economy Needs Work...

  Continuing with a series of bonus chapters to General Intellects, McKenzie Wark looks at Yves Citton's work on the ecology of attention. Given the what can only be described as the media shitshow of recent times, an ecology of attention might be a good thing to which to pay some attention.

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  Macron, or the coronation of America: A conversation with Régis Debray

  

  The fact that Macron adopts this position is a reflex, it is not something he has thought about doing. Everyone is the child of their own time and the circles they move in. That is the cost of his youth: for this generation has known nothing other than the hegemony of American visuals, an unconscious domination that has become like second nature. And the Finance Inspectorate, or banking is also a mental ecosystem in which the United States, the parent company, takes the code name "globalisation."

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  Emmanuel Macron, A Putsch by the Stock Exchange