March 2009
2 posts
epistemological deliverance
or: how to disable the News Feed on the Facebook
The Facebook recently unveiled a new home page design. One of the new features* is the real time stream:
The stream lets you know what’s happening right now in your world by showing you everything your friends and other connections, such as celebrities, athletes and politicians, are sharing. **
But what if you don’t want to know...
“The text of pleasure is not necessarily the text that recounts pleasures; the...”
– Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text. Definitions: 1. Text of pleasure: the text that contents, fills, grants euphoria; the text that comes from culture and does not break with it, is linked to a comfortable practice of reading. 2. Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of loss, the text...