by The Unlearning Specialist | Nov 28, 2015 | Humor, Language, Less, Norms, Spectacle, Violence
[Ed.: Are words just by themselves the essence of hyperbole?] Death by Internet Hyperbole: Literally Dying Over This Column By Jessica Bennett From the New York Times The text exchange was unspectacular: a friend explaining a video that had been posted by a classmate...
by The Unlearning Specialist | Aug 11, 2015 | Belief, Humor, Norms, Politics, Spectacle, Television
From the last episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – his goodbye advice: Uncensored – Three Different Kinds of Bulls**t “The best defense against bullshit is vigilance.” Jon Stewart Jon Stewart describes different types of corruption and...
by The Unlearning Specialist | Jun 6, 2015 | Belief, Humor, Language, Norms, Spectacle, Television
The insights from this video can be extended to any ad. It is not a question of using stock footage or not. Every ad appeals to a great variety of clichés. To plug into you, ads (and most media) tap into what has already been said – what is taken for granted...
by The Unlearning Specialist | Apr 24, 2015 | Film, Mass Media, Norms, Now, Spectacle, Sports, surprise, Uncategorized
A remnant of what I used to teach… I would say to my students that their medium is “surprises” – not video, not film, not sound, but surprises. Just like actual living. From the New York Times Sunday Review The Economics of Suspense APRIL 24,...
by The Unlearning Specialist | Apr 7, 2015 | Art, Belief, Humor, Norms, Politics, Spectacle, Sports, Television
[Partial translation into English] Original in French
by The Unlearning Specialist | Jul 1, 2014 | Art, Mass Media, Norms, Spectacle
To like something, you must have seen or heard it for a long time, you bunch of idiots. — Francis Picabia Pour que vous aimiez quelque chose, il faut que vous l’ayez vu et entendu depuis longtemps, tas d’idiots. — Francis Picabia
