February 2012
63 posts
“What cannot be said must be kept silent. But what cannot be said can also be...”
– Jean Baudrillard
Buenos Aires I →
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Some of my night pictures from Buenos Aires are being featured on Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure over the next few weeks. The link will bring you to the first set of photos in the series.
“A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he...”
– Abraham Polonsky’s Force of Evil
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The United States has less than 5 percent of the... →
The American incarceration rate has made the United States “a rogue state, a country that has made a decision not to follow what is a normal Western approach.”
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Several specialists here and abroad pointed to a surprising explanation for the high incarceration rate in the United States: democracy.
Most state court judges and prosecutors in the United States are elected...
“In our Web 3.0 world, as we share our identities so publicly with everyone else,...”
– - ANDREW KEEN
Does society benefit when we share personal information online? Or do social networks prompt us to publish unhealthy amounts of personal data, while little enriching our lives? Author Andrew Keen and journalism professor Jeff Jarvis lead the arguments in our debate.
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