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Omri Ceren is a PhD candidate studying Rhetoric at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. He lives in downtown Washington, DC.
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Slavoj Zizek Visits #OccupyWallStreet, Talks About Stuff
Posted on October 10, 2011 | No CommentsI could only get through a few seconds before the call-and-response became too grating. Apparently that’s how the Occupy Wall... -
Is Dark Matter A Scientific Theory In Crisis?
Posted on August 14, 2011 | No CommentsThere’s a very good scholar at USC Annenberg who works on the constraints that scientific institutions put on knowledge production,... -
New Study Provides Reminder That, No, The Internet Is Not The Ideal Speech Situation And No, Social Media Won’t Change That
Posted on July 22, 2011 | 1 CommentWith due deference to the academic and journalistic cottage industries declaring otherwise, there are roughly zero robust theoretical or empirical... -
French Web Precusor Minitel To Go Dark Next Year
Posted on July 22, 2011 | No CommentsA little piece of ICT history will take a bow next month, when Orange finally pulls the plug on Minitel... -
Zizek On Fetishistic Splits (And Peirce On Belief) [Video]
Posted on July 21, 2011 | No CommentsThe video is from his July 1 talk, sponsored by Intelligence Squared. The beginning is a fairly clear explanation of... -
Indexical Tweets, “Honest Biopolitics Intro…” Edition
Posted on February 1, 2011 | 1 CommentHighlights, lowlights, links, and the suggestion that some academics – some of the time – let wishful thinking and personal... -
Does (Fallacious) Induction Have Enthymemes?
Posted on December 8, 2010 | 4 CommentsI’ve been trying to figure out what precise kind of fallacy is the line that runs “Hitler wore pants, you... -
Marketing Outpacing Comm/PR Departments For Control Over Corporate Social Media. Also, Foucault And Institutional Argument.
Posted on May 27, 2010 | No CommentsThe dogma in Comm/PR programs is that since corporate engagement now is a conversation – with social media being merely... -
Lifeworld Colonization Meets Mass Communication, Global Warming Edition
Posted on May 21, 2010 | No CommentsDemocratic theory 101: there is a technical sphere and a public sphere, and the two are by design separate and... -
Scientist Who Doesn’t Understand Judgment Tries To Persuade People To Drink Own Waste, Produces Rhetorical And Psychoanalytic Train Wreck, Comedy Gold
Posted on December 8, 2007 | No CommentsOrange County has just launched a Toilet To Tap water program to reclaim flushed waste, distill it, and return it...
