Tag: Philosophy

• The Weekly Roundup: 19/03/17

  

  Sundays are for lying in bed in the morning as sun creeps around the edge of the blinds and wondering where the hell all of the week went to. Well, that and catching up on all that juicy, juicy content that you missed out on. Another entry in the Beyond Postmodernism series looked at Post-Truth […]

  E Warren

  March 19, 2017

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  Analysis, Beauty and the Beast, Cinema, Film, Games, Gaming, Get Out, Kong Skull Island, Language, Linguistics, Media, Monster Factory, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Review, The Taxpayers

• Beyond Postmodernism: Post-truth

  

  If modernism and postmodernism are defined primarily by their relationship to the metanarrative, where does that leave the contemporary world? Newscasters have been chatting a lot over the past year about post-truth politics, a mode of discourse in which the notion of the factual is deemphasised in favour of creating a new reality which supports […]

  E Warren

  March 14, 2017

  Analysis, Not Film, Philosophy, Politics

  Media, News, Opinion, Philosophy, Politics, Post Fact, Post Truth, Reality

• Beyond Postmodernism: The Apple Store

  

  Okay, let’s start here by outlining the supermarket as the ultimate postmodern shopping experience. A dizzying and purposefully confusing arrangement of choice, designed to distance ourselves from the physical reality of the products we wish to purchase. Which instead encourages us to facilitate our interaction with the world through recognisable branding, as brand awareness is […]

  E Warren

  February 26, 2017

  Analysis, Philosophy

  Analysis, Apple, Apple Store, Beyond Postmodernism, Critical Theory, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Shopping