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1/ Shortly after the World Trade Center towers collapsed
on September 11, the Coup's leader, Boots, was informed by execs at his
record company that he'd need to change the cover of his group's fourth
album. "In the end, I made the decision," Boots said. "Two
hours after the thing happened, we got the call saying, 'OK, you've got to
have another album cover. No discussion.' That was it. It was one of the
first things that I saw in a series of censorship things." (Source: http://www.
mtv.com/news/articles/1450559/20011107/story.jhtml) |
2/ ÒPrecision Eye Care regrets the unfortunate advertisement
that appeared in North Shore Today depicting a tall building and an airplane.
Please be assured that this advertisement was part of a marketing plan that was
designed months ago and placed in the magazine several weeks prior to the
tragedy. It was mailed out several days prior and arrived at most destinations
the morning of the tragedy. We deeply regret if this caused anguish to anyone
and would like the public to know that we are deeply saddened by the events of
the last several days." (Source: http//www.breakthechain.
org/exclusives/flexon.html) [page ref. 22]
[1] I appreciate my interpretation of Peirce seems
unorthodox. Peirce would never
conceive of the interpretant as being dualistic in nature but as a
triad. However the distinction I am making between immediate and mediate
categories of thought is not incorrect for that reason, it is just partial. My
hunch is that Peirce is right to emphasise that the interpretant is a triad,
but to justify this would take more time than I have allocated to me in writing
this dissertation, and it would not fundamentally effect its conclusions.
Therefore I want to leave the resolution of the third aspect of the
interpretant until another time.[page ref. 31]
[1] The philosophy of feeling has great importance in
respect to the discipline of media studies. For too long media studies has been
content to borrow theories from elsewhere. This means that if the theory is
disproved, the attitude of the media scholar is one of a disillusioned acolyte,
rather than a disappointed practitioner. These periodic losses of confidence
have produced a somewhat fragmentation approach to the subject that I
personally believe is detrimental. [page ref. 42]
[1] It should always be called 9/11 and not September 11.
As Derrida pointed out, September 11 is just a date (Derrida, www). And written
as a tautology 'September 11 = September 11' means just a day in history. Whereas '9/11= 9/11'
connotes a sense of emergency, since 911 is the phone number for the emergency
services in the United States. Thus, September 11 was an U.S. based emergency
and as such not merely a day in history, but because of the U.S.'s domination
of military, economic and cultural power, it was also a world changing event.
[page ref. 46]
[1] I say allegedly because officials were somewhat coy
about admitting that the Baghdad bombing was shock and awe (Correll www). This,
despite the fact that certain unnamed Washington sources had been hyping the
event for months previously (ibid.). [page ref. 56]
[1] I know that some people will object to the philosophy of feeling on the grounds that it feels somewhat slippery. But all the philosophy of feeling can do by way of criticising the logic of representation is to express a feeling about it, which isn't a critique of course, merely the basis for one. In this way if there ever are any practitioners of the philosophy of feelings, they should be like detectives, always listening to their hunches and acting on them but all the time searching for clues, since it is evidence and not hunches that will ultimately prove the case in court. [page ref. 60]