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 12, 2015 | Poetry, Quotes, Spectacle, Visual Addiction
The Vacation By Wendell Berry Once there was a man who filmed his vacation. He went flying down the river in his boat with his video camera to his eye, making a moving picture of the moving river upon which his sleek boat moved swiftly toward the end of his vacation....
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 lies and then calls on...
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 – and...
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, 2015 Credit Gérard...
by The Unlearning Specialist | Apr 7, 2015 | Art, Belief, Humor, Norms, Politics, Spectacle, Sports, Television
[Partial translation into English] Original in French
