Collin G Brooke
@cgbrooke
I’m a rhetoric professor in upstate NY.
Collin G Brooke
cgbrooke.substack.com
depend on an accurate apprehension of the context
Eric Hayot • Humanist Reason
Supposedly mature adults with no sense of scale or proportionality.”
Jason Pargin • I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
It is this slackening that thinkers like Jodi Dean, Slavoj Žižek, Mark Andrejevic, Byung-Chul Han and others have warned of as a decline of the symbolic: a malfunctioning of socially sanctioned language, a sagging of meaning and norms.
Anna Kornbluh • Immediacy
the imaginary waxes while the symbolic wanes.
Anna Kornbluh • Immediacy
scale requires technological adjuncts, because scale is only produced when we move beyond the perceptual limits of the human body.
Joshua DiCaglio • Scale Theory
Art constitutively thwarts immediacy, urgency, and utility; its most direct use rests in this indirection—but today’s immediatist art aspires to void itself, and theory has been following in its wake.
Anna Kornbluh • Immediacy
The hijackers, Democrats and Republicans alike, have acted as if the idea that self-government depends on people being able to count on independent providers of information is a quaint relic and that the new media channels present new opportunities that creative political operatives must seize.
Steven Brill • The Death of Truth
The sharing contest is what produces social gravitation in the web.
Andrey Miroshnichenko • Human as Media. The Emancipation of Authorship
It has become increasingly possible to give almost continuous access to politicians—or that's the illusion. Think of our phones, these totemic objects we all carry—the intimacy of sitting in bed with the screen close to your face, watching a politician record a video or a livestream of themselves with their own phone. That's different from sitting
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