Showing posts with label mythology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mythology. Show all posts
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Camille Paglia Bashes Claude Levi-Strauss

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In her Salon column this week Camille Paglia spared a few column inches to consider and then completely trash the entire career of Claude Le...
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Saturday, April 25, 2009

Susan Boyle's Transformation: We Have Met The Ugly Duckling And He Is Us

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Turnabout is fair play as Susan Boyle turns Les Mis into Les Millions in her now famous YouTube fairy tale. The Susan Boyle video clip that...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The Battlestar Galactica Guide to Great Literature

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As they contemplated Season Four, Battlestar Galactica's writers confronted the narrative mess of the previous three years and exclaimed...
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Friday, November 28, 2008

Happy 100th Birthday Claude Lévi-Strauss!

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Here is my quick take on Claude Lévi-Strauss's contribution to Media Ecology: His approach to the interpretation of so-called "prim...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Things Come in Fours

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Some unabashed shameless self-promotion ensues. If you happen to be in New York City on the weekend starting November 14 (which coincidental...
Friday, May 9, 2008

Meta Four Play Part 4 - McLuhan's Tetrad and Lévi-Strauss' Canonical Formula: Down the Rabbit Hole

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My previous posts on this topic, which can be found here , here and here attempted to link the process of mythic analysis proposed by Clau...
Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Something Wiki This Way Comes.

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If you spend any time browsing the YouTube, you've probably seen the Media Ecological videos produced by Kansas State University Pr...
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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Meta Four Play Part 3 - McLuhan's Tetrad and Lévi-Strauss' Canonical Formula: Breaking Down the Formula

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"I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact....
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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Performance Enhancing Drugs

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In case you've been sleeping for the last 42 years, this Sunday the sports/media event known as the Super Bowl takes place. This penult...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Meta-Four-Play: McLuhan's Tetrad and Lévi-Strauss's Canonical Formula Part 2.

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In my previous post I suggested that there is a fundamental similarity between Marshall McLuhan’s Tetrad and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Canonical...
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Saturday, July 28, 2007

Comments Re: The Problem of Myths

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Some reactions to my recent post concerning the similarities between myth and advertising, with my response below: Duane writes: I was with ...
Monday, April 9, 2007

Postscript to "Cylon Monotheism": Blechman's Communication Appendices (Part 1)

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In his blog Lance Strate's Blog Time Passing , Lance answers my questions concerning the monotheism of Cylons on Battlestar Galactic: ...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007

The Structural Study of Television Advertising

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Anonymous asks: I do not understand why you want to relate advertising to mythology. Yes, I know that McLuhan refers in his subtitle to folk...
Monday, January 15, 2007

Why Advertising Is Becoming Ubiquitous

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(Updated below) The trend in advertising toward a ubiquitous presence in our lives, as documented in this New York Times article, is a natu...
Sunday, January 7, 2007

The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

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Anonymous asks: OK, if Fox News "constitutes a violation of the traditional definition of news and requires adjustments in how we consu...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Claude Lévi-Strauss's Contribution to Media Ecology

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Here is my quick take on Lévi-Strauss's contribution to Media Ecology: His approach to the interpretation of so-called "primitive...