Max Weber and The Rationalization of Reality
The End of Reality: Part II. This is what happens in the blogosphere: I vow to post more persistently, then go five months without an update. No more vows — just a futile hope that I can muster the...
View ArticleGawker Agrees: The End of Reality Postscript
Continuing the trend of major publications echoing the ideas discussed here, Gawker’s Brian Moylan last Thursday traced the same narrative in reality TV that I described in my last post from artless,...
View ArticleOne Last Rationalization Post: ChatRoulette
And while I’m on the topic of rationalization and its discontents, I must mention another darling of the zeitgeist — another phenomenon notable for its sharp break from a rationalized narrative:...
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