Manufacturing consent and Ideology
Very useful book and concepts (“manufacturing consent” & “propaganda model”) by Chomsky and Herman to teach media literacy and to discuss with students how consent for economic, social, and political policies is “manufactured” in the public mind via media intentional …
METACOGNITION in Argumenation & Communication Strategies (The “Rumsfeld approach”)
One of the dangerous mistakes of many strategical thinking models today is over-emphasising the “unknown unknowns” (things you don’t even know you don’t know) in our decision making process. UNKOWN KNOWNS – our hidden assumptions, unconscious prejudices and cultural/ideological beliefs …
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What you always wanted to know about Hegel but was afraid to ask J.K.Rowling
I have only now noticed this cute Hegelian moment in Harry Potter. What is awkwardly translated into the movie version as: “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living” originally reads as follows in the last book: “The true …
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