Posts Tagged: Philosophy & Sophistry
a tale of cats, philosophers, and SUVs
Posted by on Saturday, January 13, 2001 in
aov’s favourite philosophy professor, Tony Couture, to whom we owe a lot of our genius, has had quite a misadventure. • Click for larger image • (131Kb) • As featured in The Guardian newspaper, Tony’s unreasonably large Sport Utility Vehicle went off the road near Shediac. While Tony seems … read more »
tonight: the real debate
Posted by on Sunday, November 19, 2000 in
Tonight at 8:00PM EST on CBC Newsworld, home of Canada's best TV show, Counterspin, be sure and tune into the Alternative Election Debate. • Five of Canada's ‘other’ parties will be debating the issues (I get the feeling the “issues” might be somewhat different than the “issues” we are used to …
commercial WIRED musings
Posted by on Wednesday, November 1, 2000 in
Some interesting (or at least I thought so) stats from the latest issue of WIRED Magazine. Of the total 366 pages, a little over half, 200 are advertisments. Of the remaining 166 pages of 'editorial' content, 16 are basically unpaid ads for the products the cover. • I haven't compared these …
taking aim at the brand bullies
Posted by on Saturday, August 26, 2000 in
Just finished reading No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein. It was an interesting book about the “brands, not products” phenomenon and provided a balanced historical look at the culture-jamming movement. Klein was careful to distance herself from organizations such as Adbusters …