Category Archives: internet culture

The hamster wheel of digital late modernity…

Posted on January 28, 2014 by dwighttowers

Unsustainable in just about every sense you can think of (nb Svensson is describing, not endorsing…) Sociologists often refer our time as late modern (Giddens, 1991; Bauman, 2001). Dahlgren (2006) characterises late modernity by identifying two interrelated cultural processes at … Continue reading →

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Manuel Castells on “self-communication”

Posted on December 12, 2013 by dwighttowers

Manuel Castells’ book Networks of Outrage and Hope is a “must-read” (for the purposes of most regular commenters on DT, probably more must-ready than the other great book I just read, Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “The Black Swan”). I hope to … Continue reading →

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Dum Dumb, Dum DUMB: Jaws, T800s and Macbeth

Posted on November 3, 2013 by dwighttowers

Or “Wilfully “perverse” readings” Three great examples of the humour to be had at deliberate mis-reading.   This review of “Jaws” This mash-up of “Terminator” as a RomCom <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/OfwQKapDMws?rel=0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen> And James Thurber’s “Macbeth Murder Mystery“

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Proper Tea is theft…

Posted on October 1, 2013 by dwighttowers

Is not the punchline to this joke.  Let me just go and watch some roaches climb the wall…

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Worst. Phish. Ever.

Posted on September 15, 2013 by dwighttowers

I mean, really. Shouldn’t they have their scumbag license revoked?

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Banality alert: The internet as campfire

Posted on August 25, 2013 by dwighttowers

Warm, illuminating, convivial.* But as the major singer-songwriter of the late 20th century warned “the closer you get to the fire the more you get burned.” And so it is with the internet. Too much time (too close) and you’ll … Continue reading →

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Are you syrias? Nigerian phishing scam via … “Damascus”?!

Posted on June 20, 2013 by dwighttowers

And the cheeky sods even used google calendar to “invite” me to this event. That’s a clever way around the spam filters, but I bet it will be shut in a day or three. These “Nigerians” never give up, do … Continue reading →

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Candidate Obama debates POTUS Obama on #nsa #prism #facepalm

Posted on June 16, 2013 by dwighttowers
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SMBC video: “Culture Warriors” versus Jesus…

Posted on April 9, 2013 by dwighttowers

A giant green-bearded Jesus eating communist skyscrapers? Is that a sentence that has every been typed before, eh?

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Dilbert on job satisfaction; “what people feel right before they die from stress-related problems”

Posted on March 25, 2013 by dwighttowers

The full strip is here.

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