In the 1960’s, the French social critic Guy Debord inscribed his magnum opus The Society of the Spectacle, where he argued in Wittgenstein fashion that capitalism — as it was in the 1960’s — impressed upon the world a shift from a society that seeks to ‘have’ to a society that seeks to ‘appear to … Continue reading On the Violence of Social Media
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Zombies & the Postmodern Human
You may have noticed in the past few years, there has been an increase in the popularity of Zombie's and the subsequent apocalyptic disaster than generally ensues. The Zombie folklore began increasing in popularity in the 1970's and then dramatically increased in popularity again in the late 1990's through present day, as exhibited in an examination of the … Continue reading Zombies & the Postmodern Human