Brandon Marcus

The culture of authenticity goes hand in hand with the distrust of ritualized forms of interaction. Only spontaneous emotion, that is, a subjective st

Today, self-creation is no longer something some of us can do to set ourselves apart from the people we see as the masses, the crowd, or ‘la foule.’ I

The discipline of information literacy has always pushed back against this. Its foundational premise is that access to information should serve the pe

One of his more interesting sidelines was his critique of the ideas of copyright and patent. He believed attributing scientific discovery to a single

Information and attention: A century in which the key to human history is not how the economy grew, but rather how humans learned to give attention to

Murdoch suggests that the ego makes it difficult to properly attend to one another. We often fail to see others adequately because the ego gets in the