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2025 updates: my £0.77 book on political and media framing, plus new article on metaphor in science, and a celebration of books...

Some essential reading & items of interest for this Winter - including Framelab, The Coming Wave, Doppelganger and Noise...

New 2023 paperback edition of Lazy Person's Guide to Framing published.

“Free speech” and “censorship” are framed in ways suggestive of legacy media gatekeeping “centres” (eg of publishing and broadcasting) – even though the debates concern mostly “decentralised” online media with algorithm gatekeeping.

Before it had the name "whataboutism", I regarded the compulsion as harmless and "adolescent" - akin to the stereotype of, say, students blaming everything on their own government, "The Man", "The System", etc, coupled with a sort of "your enemy's enemy is

Most ‘work’ in this age is stupid, monotonous, brain-rotting, irritating, usually pointless … Marx was quite right in calling it ‘wage slavery.’ – Robert Anton Wilson, 1986 – intro to ‘Undoing Yourself’, 3rd ed.

I’ve created a new blog – RAW semantics – with speculative, philosophical posts about semantics, themed around the writings of Robert Anton Wilson (who I’m a long-time admirer of).

April 2020 – I recommend the practice of ‘media distancing’ for your psychological well-being. — (Just as social distancing is advised for physical well-being). — It’s the opposite of having your head in the sand, and there’s an art to it.

This article is also available at medium.com Guccifer 2.0 – arbiter of “public good” 26 Feb 2020 – In October 2016, Glenn Greenwald had a conversation with Naomi Klein, in which Klein tried to pose a few criticisms of the ways Greenwald and Julian Assange…

Of all the “what the hell is going on?”