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roachboy · 08-25-2004, 06:45 AM

i am more concerned by the blurring of any distinction between advertising and information, a move that has been a stock in trade of the right.

this website gives an interesting overview of the infrastructure of this kind of business with reference to global warming:

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/

this website tries to take on the matter in broader terms:

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.pht...e=Disinfopedia

it seems to me that "memes" are elements of a visual rhetoric that would not necessarily be problematic in themselves in a context shaped by clear-ish genre distinctions. in the present context, however, in which there are corporate/political interests working actively to break down these distinctions, the nature and meaning of this rhetoric becomes more complicated and troublesome.

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roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	i am more concerned by the blurring of any distinction between advertising and information, a move that has been a stock in trade of the right. this website gives an interesting overview of the infrastructure of this kind of business with reference to global warming: http://www.exxonsecrets.org/ this website tries to take on the matter in broader terms: http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.pht...e=Disinfopedia it seems to me that "memes" are elements of a visual rhetoric that would not necessarily be problematic in themselves in a context shaped by clear-ish genre distinctions. in the present context, however, in which there are corporate/political interests working actively to break down these distinctions, the nature and meaning of this rhetoric becomes more complicated and troublesome. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite