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New Environmental Assessment: Running out of Metaphors

Daniel published this entry on Wednesday 05 December, 2007 at 4:08 am. It's been filed in the environment + politics + propaganda category. {1 Comment}

If politics is built by language, there are words in the right policies, and a vacant silence in the tongue of the opposing policies.An excerpt from:
Stuck on Coal, and Stuck for Words in a High-Tech World - {NYTimes}
by | By Andrew C. Revkin, 12.4.2007
It��s no wonder that scientists immersed for decades in this problem are [...]

Not for Commercial Use - More movement memes

Daniel published this entry on Friday 23 November, 2007 at 4:37 pm. It's been filed in the propaganda + video category. {2 Comments}

Let’s call ‘movement memes’ internet-based attempts to create a socio-political movement. At first glance, ‘Not for Commercial Use’ appears to be an outgrowth of the anti-corporate control sentiments in the Creative Commons system created by Lawrence Lessig that that helped shape wikipedia, internet music, and repositioned archive.org as a free media depository. But maybe it’s [...]

There’s more out there

Daniel published this entry on Monday 02 May, 2005 at 7:44 pm. It's been filed in the images + propaganda + uncategorized category. {1 Comment}

I think I have an unhealthy attraction to government propaganda. A friend gave me a great collection of propaganda from around the world a while ago and I made up a photo album. Click here. I like to imagine how many billions of people have seen those pictures and what it has drawn them to [...]