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Mediation and conversation through keywords

17. June 2008

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Conversation has always been the heart and soul of human interaction. With the invention of the Gutenberg printing press in the (mid)15th century to the advent of search engines and social communities, we have been using words to communicate, exchange with other and search our own « self ». In mediating with each previous technology [...]

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On online community, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

5. June 2008

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“All kinds of social co-existence that are familiar, comfortable, and exclusive are to be understood as belonging to Gemeinschaft. Gesellschaft means life in the public sphere, in the outside world. In Gemeinschaft we are united from the moment of our birth with our own folk for better or worse. We go out into Gesellschaft as [...]

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on advertising and culture

2. June 2008

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“Advertising and the culture industry merge technically as well as economically. In both cases the same thing can be seen in innumerable places, and the mechanical repetition of the same culture product has come to be the same as that of the propaganda slogan. In both cases the standards are striking yet familiar, the easy yet catchy, the skillful [...]

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