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HOW MARKETING HAS GOT UNDER OUR SKIN
Branding used to be for products, then celebrities. Now it is something ordinary people do to themselves. Peter York traces the roots of a phenomenon that goes back to Dale Carnegie via Margaret Thatcher
November 12 2009, 1:50pm | Comments
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The End of Solitude - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. If not to the millions, on Survivor or Oprah, then to the hundreds, on Twitter or Facebook.…
August 19 2009, 6:24am | Comments
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Crossroads - Pop Culture in the Age of Obama
The term “pop culture” appeared around 1960, just as its meaning became confused. High-culture up-and-comers were embracing pop imagery and tropes with a vengeance, and the best and brightest creators of entertainment were suddenly producing work...
August 13 2009, 1:11pm | Comments
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Why Does the Best Design of 2009 Still Look Like 2000? | Networked Culture | Fast Company
"Cocksure: The Psychology of Overconfidence" is the title of Malcolm Gladwell's recent piece in the New Yorker, where he investigates the mental-space of decision-making. Gladwell analyzes financial collapse and war...
August 4 2009, 2:47pm | Comments
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Happinomics | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
Helliwell’s research has proven that the more positive social interactions we have, the higher our happiness levels.
July 9 2009, 1:36pm | Comments
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The chemical neutralizes PKMzeta, a molecule that plays a crucial but not wholly understood role in memory retention. Once injected, the rats quickly forget their hard-earned knowledge regarding safe routes through the chamber.
July 7 2009, 10:50am | Comments
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White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
I began to understand why we are just seen as oppressive, even when we don't see ourselves that way. I began to count the ways in which I enjoy unearned skin privilege and have been conditioned into oblivion…
June 3 2009, 6:30am | Comments
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Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism
Like painters constantly retouching their work, we alter, update, and tweak our online self-portraits; but as digital objects they are far more ephemeral than oil on canvas.
March 26 2009, 9:57am | Comments
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from previous ages we have good raw data written on clay, on stone, on parchment and paper, but from the 1950s to the present recorded information increasingly disappears into a digital gap. Historians will consider this a dark…
March 11 2009, 11:21am | Comments
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Politics, celebrity gossip, business headlines, tech punditry, odd news, and user-generated content. These are the chew toys that have made me sad and tired and cynical. Each, in its own way, contributes to the imperative that we constantly…
January 6 2009, 11:21pm | Comments
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