by Fulano de Tal | Nov 14, 2012 | Psychology, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
How to carry on worrying but still learn to ‘love’ the interweb [[Tovarich]]/comrade: are you sitting comfortably? Good, then we’ll begin… Astute followers of de Tal’s blogs [who may have achieved double figures as we speak] will have noticed an understandable...
by Fulano de Tal | Oct 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Guy Debord,[1] in his major work, The Society of the Spectacle[2], argued that modern capitalism inverted the ontological order by placing the primacy of the image or representation over the ‘real’. This was a perspicacious and vital critique, which takes on ever...
by Fulano de Tal | Oct 17, 2012 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
Capitalism: “We hit ya and we give ya some”[1] One of the core contradictions of capitalism since its earliest phase of ‘primitive accumulation’ has been the need to bring together disparate individuals and populations while maintaining their atomisation and isolation...
