Daily Archives: July 26, 2024

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  • Systems of meaning…

    With all kinds of bows to Gadamer, Philip Cushman writes in Constructing the Self, Constructing America, page 309 of the 1995 Da Capo Press edition (Perseus Books Group): There is something in the very nature of being human that makes it extremely difficult to differentiate what we are from what we construct, or what we [...]

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    Heisenberg rears his ugly head, and Karl Marx plays whack-a-mole…

    Wherein Ms. Hegemonic takes a walk on the wild side and interviews some kids to support her sense that MySpace is where the “subalterns” gather and Facebook is for her peeps. Danah Boyd gathered her impressions and wrote an essay called Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace. Writing from the perspective of a [...]

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