Utopica
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Toți construim castele în aer. Problemele vin atunci când vrem să locuim în ele. Istoria imaginilor folosite în publicitate e o veritabilă sursă pentru un istoric al ideilor. Las la latitudinea cititorului analiza evoluției simbolisticii și a mesajului publicitar din următoarele două imagini. De la la pentru că Însă mi se pare foarte interesantă transformarea
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The implicit religion of hyperconsumerism contains many of the echoes of Christian faith. Malls and movie theaters resemble churches. Celebrities resemble saints. Shopping becomes a sacrament, and gossip magazines become scripture. Even conversion takes on a new form in the hyperconsumer world. In the hyperreal world, we believe that by changing our surfaces we are
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Psychology of Excellence Everywhere in the modern world, it seems, more younger adults than older adults report having ever been disabled by this new great (emotional) depression . . . Young people today have grown up with much more affluence, slightly less overall happiness, and much greater risk of depression, not to mention triple suicide .
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Imagine. Dream. Believe. Futurist polyexpressive theatre will be a superpowerful centre of abstract forces in play. Each spectacle will be a mechanical rite of the eternal transcendence of matter, a magical revelation of spiritual and scientific mystery. A panoramic synthesis of action, understood as a mystical rite of spiritual dynamism. A centre of spiritual abstraction for the new religion
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We shape our tools, and there after they shape us. (John M. Culkin) I’ve read The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011) and I remembered Plato. In Phaedrus’s dialogue (sect. 274-275), Plato presents a story about the invention of letters by Thoth. This new skill is a
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