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Category Archives: Literature and narrative
Elites as maintainers of conservative values
BBC – Radio 4 – Today – 20006 Vote The Hunting Act with 52.8% Dangerous Dogs Act: 1.6% Serious Organised Crime and Police Act : 6.2% Human Rights Act: 6.1% European Communities Act : 29.7% The Act of Settlement: 3.6% … Continue reading
Free Market Doctrines: From analogy to ritual
A Renaissance of the Commons | Nick Lewis: The Blog Cultures, like people, can run out of ideas. They can exhaust themselves in the face of events and ideas they can no longer predict, explain or control. When they do, … Continue reading
Left Behind Games: The moral frames of evangelical Christianity
Left Behind Games The storyline in the game begins just after the Rapture has occurred â when all adult Christians, all infants, and many children were instantly swept home to Heaven and off the Earth by God. The remaining population … Continue reading
On making sense of
On The Media: Transcript of “The Power of Myth” (November 24, 2006) ANA MARIE COX: Well, I think that Joe is a provocative thinker and a great reporter. He was really early out of the gate trying to put a … Continue reading
Accepted, the review – Images of the educational process in popular culture
From the Wikipedia entry: Accepted is a 2006 comedy motion picture about a group of high school seniors who, after being rejected from all colleges to which they had applied, create their own college. … At one point Bartleby [the … Continue reading
Wikipedia – the Original Encyclopedia
BBC – Radio 4 In Our Time – Home Page the mammoth undertaking that was the Encyclopédie – one of its editors, D’Alembert, described its mission as giving an overview of knowledge, as if gazing down on a vast labyrinth … Continue reading
Tom Waits and the surface of text
ANTI- Album – Orphans What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear. Just … Continue reading
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Of dicks and doves: Team America cognitive semireview
YouTube – Team America Finale Speech PhatGun (3 months ago) HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA SO TRUE!!! Tomster22 (19 hours ago) Neo-Cons = Dicks, Peacenicks = Pussies, Islamo-Fascists = Assholes AerisRocks (2 months ago) lol! Thats a great metaphor they used…assholes want us to … Continue reading
Trouble in Ambridge: Optical illusions and hypostesized narratives
BBC – Radio 4 – Feedback Love quadrangle Things have been getting very steamy in the cowshed at Brookfield lately and Archers listeners who’ve written to Feedback talk of sensationalism and complain that some of the main characters seem to … Continue reading
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Localized textual performance in everyday narrative
14 WFIE, The Tri-State’s News Leader: Manhunt Ends, Baby Found Safe A fugitive couple who hid in a camper are now behind bars. The kidnapped baby is safe, and the funeral for the social worker who cared the baby is … Continue reading
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