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Reviews

Solidarity, and the Rise and Fall of the Public Sphere

A Review of Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz’s Media Events

April 18, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Twenty-five years after its publication, Dayan and Katz’s classic study of ceremonial television, Media Events, has continued relevance for understanding the politics of media. With the proliferation of cable television and digital media explosion, television is no longer the hegemonic media form it once was, and the media events they ...

Solidarity, and the Rise and Fall of the Public Sphere

Multi Media

Wiretapping, Wellness Real Estate, and Late-Night TV

Past Present Episode 74

March 16, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Neil J. Young and Nicole Hemmer

In this week's episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil debate Trump’s wiretapping allegations, “wellness real estate,” and late-night TV.

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Wiretapping, Wellness Real Estate, and Late-Night TV

Feature

When Is a Lie a Lie?

Trump, Journalism, and Objectivity

March 13, 2017 • by Ian Olasov

One argument against the Times’ use of “lie” was aired by Mary Louise Kelly on NPR’s Morning Edition. By definition, she says, a lie is “a false statement made with intent to deceive. Intent being the key word there. Without the ability to peer into Donald Trump’s head, I can’t ...

Feature

“Focus on the Issues, Not on Trump?” NOT!

How the Trump Administration is waging war against the Media

February 25, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

The right-wing version of this, expressed by conservative MSNBC talk-show host Joe Scarborough but also by his MSNBC colleague Chuck Todd, goes something like this (I paraphrase): “Trump’s antics are distracting him from attending to the substantive policy issues of his campaign. He is needlessly making enemies of the press, ...

Science & Technology

CRIT: Critical and Radical Information Theory

On Tiziana Terranova

February 13, 2017 • by McKenzie Wark

Contrary to certain popular narratives by latecomers, not everybody went gaga over ‘new media’ back in the late twentieth century. In the cyberculture period, from the popularization of cyberpunk in 1984 to the death of the internet as a purely scientific and military media in 1995, there were plenty of ...

Education

Further Reflections on Truth, Politics and Education

Media and Publics III

February 6, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

This past week was fascinating. We read Arendt’s essay “Truth and Politics,” along with a selection from Erving Goffman’s Presentation of Self in Everyday life. The students, Alysha originally from India, Lina, from Sweden, and the Julian from Los Angeles, wisely decided to draw upon the diversity of their experiences ...

Feature

“We Are At War!”

Steve Bannon’s Warmongering

February 6, 2017 • by Robert Ivie

“We’re in a war. We’re clearly going into, I think, a major shooting war in the Middle East, again.” November 27, 2015 “It’s war. It’s war. Every day, we put up America’s at war. America’s at War. We’re at war.” December 14, 2015 - Steve Bannon A warmonger, by definition, is someone who promotes ...

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Size Matters

The Political Implications of Crowding Out the Facts with Trump’s Alternative Universe

January 27, 2017 • by Sanford Schram

At the end of his first full day as President, Trump dispatched his press secretary Sean Spicer to make a statement in the White House press room claiming that the press was being dishonest, even manipulating photos, in order to deny Trump’s claims that the day before on the Washington ...

Education

Media and Publics in Dark Times

An OOPS course

January 26, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

The course objective, as I put it in the planned syllabus (responding to an administrative mandate to include such statements): “The objective of this class follows the insights of Michael Oakeshott, the great British (conservative) philosopher, as he illuminated the problem of education and of the liberal arts. He observed that ...

Education

The Masturbatory Logic of Fake News Sites

December 22, 2016 • by Charles Innis

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. On December 4th a man walked into a warehouse-sized pizza and Ping-Pong establishment in Washington D.C. armed with a rifle and fired it once. Nobody was harmed, though pizza patrons fled the business and the neighborhood was put on lock-down ...

The Masturbatory Logic of Fake News Sites

On Trump and Trumpism

8 posts in 1

November 30, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I am devastated. All of my public commitments are under attack. I thought there had been progress during my lifetime. Democracy and the positive developments of democratic culture, free speech and expression, social justice and the fight against racism, sexism, class exploitation, xenophobia, and much more, all seemed to advance, ...

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Dividuum

On Gerald Raunig

November 3, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

Like Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain, who was so surprised to learn that all these years he has been speaking prose, people are often shocked to learn that they think in concepts. It’s not just us theorists who make up funny meanings for funny words. Take the word individual. It seems ordinary enough. ...