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Might the jingle be a very old thing, pre-dating radio and television? Here is Bakhtin trying to explain the type of orality featured in Rabelais through the medieval and early modern cris, or street cries:
“The cris were loud advertisements called out by the Paris street vendors, and composed according to a certain versified form; each [...]
Daniel J. Solove of Concurring Opinions recounts the legal difficulties surrounding “the tragic story about a family being harassed by the spread of death-scene images of their daughter, who was killed in an automobile accident. The photos of Nikki Catsouras were particularly gruesome — Nikki was decapitated in the crash. According to the article, soon [...]
Juan Cole debunks the Obama administration’s and the media’s Pakistani Taliban threat fantasy:
As I have said before, although the rise of the Pakistani Taliban in the Pushtun areas and in some districts of Punjab is worrisome, the cosmic level of concern being expressed makes no sense to me. Some 55 percent of Pakistanis are Punjabi, [...]
It seems that the GOP considers even pandemic preparadness a form of welfarism:
When House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who has long championed investment in pandemic preparation, included roughly $900 million for that purpose in this year’s emergency stimulus bill, he was ridiculed by conservative operatives and congressional Republicans.
Obey and other advocates [...]
Donnel Stern’s introduction to the single volume edition of the psychoanalyst Edgar Levenson’s two major books, The Fallacy of Understanding (1972) and The Ambiguity of Change (1983) (published together by Analytic Press, 2005) attempts to both contextualize and highlight the important aspects of Levenson’s work. Not surprisingly, Stern’s introductory remarks are shaped by the current [...]
SunChips, Frito-Lay’s popular line of multigrain snacks, will introduce for Earth Day 2010 the first fully compostable snack chip bag made from plant-based materials. Packaging Digest describes the key design innovations behind SunChips’ new packaging:
Current snack food packaging has three layers: a printed outer layer with packaging visuals/graphics, an inner layer, which serves as a [...]
Jeremy Scahill is not pleased:
The U.S. State Department has announced it is sponsoring a “New Media Technology” delegation to Iraq to “explore new opportunities to support Iraqi government and non-government stakeholders in Iraq’s emerging new media industry.” Of all of the areas in Iraq in desperate need of attention, its “emerging new media industry” is [...]
Brad DeLong, whose blog I otherwise follow for its sober commentary on the economic collapse, yesterday posted what can only be considered an overly-simplistic and by all accounts intellectually-insulting paper on Karl Marx. At one point, he even stoops to entertaining Paul Samuelson’s “joke” that Marx was but a “minor post-Ricardian theorist”.
In any event, it makes for [...]
Makes perfect sense to me. I’ve always been suspicious of the airline “baggage” conditions for pets, and I know more than a few people who consciously or unconsciously don’t travel for pet-related reasons.
Petairways:
Each time pets move anywhere, from the Pet Lounge to the pet limo or from the pet limo to the plane, we track and record [...]
If you know Lessing principally as the author of the Laocoon (as I did), then Hamburg Dramaturgy, a collection of his popular theater reviews, is sure to cast him in a stunning new light. Who knew Lessing was such a wit? (I, at least, did not.) Though he is still known for his ironic literary style, the academic [...]
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