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Dave Monsey's avatar

You articulated something I was trying to explain to my 12 year old son. This is not just “disaster porn” which is what he calls it.

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Hannah Dean's avatar

Thanks for writing.

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Neil Fauerso's avatar

Thinking about that episode/essay in ways of seeing about advertising and how the juxtaposition of photos of a famine in Bangladesh are affected by an adjacent perfume ad. Our reality now is like that quantized into 360 degree experience.

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dd's avatar

What is that twitter account you follow regarding Ukraine?

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Henry Hunt's avatar

I was in college when, who had been a much academically marginalized professor at the University of Toronto, exploded into Marshall McLuhan! He/it/his book was everywhere. It influenced everything for a bit or maybe forever. Time to revisit perhaps.

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