Posts tagged 'comics'

Why watch the Watchmen?

20090309Mon

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The internet is full of people reviewing Watchmen who manage to do so without spoilers. Not me. The following assumes that you have either read or will never read the original graphic novel and that you have either watched or will never watch the film.

Totalitarian semiotics as pre-emptive censorship

20070605Tue

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To be completely honest, there are some concepts in here that could likely go back into the oven for some more baking… but I think I may be on to something.

Courage

20070312Mon

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Dan Rather, best known for his 44 years as reporter and eventually anchorman for CBS News, was today’s keynote speaker at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. He had a few things to say about the blogging, the internet, and the state of journalism in this country.

The mathematics of fantasy

20070302Fri

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I was excited by learning inductive logic for the first time. Given the details of a certain situation, what can be induced to apply to any subsequent instance? While this may pertain to a discrete reality, I’ve recently come to believe that this process is the core of fantasy, as well.