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Marshall McLuhan once said, “the medium is the message.” What he meant is that what really matters about media isn’t just the content but the atmosphere it creates around us. Radiohead has been shaping those kinds of atmospheres for decades. Take Everything in Its Right Place, the opener on Kid A. The words cycle like
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“Remember me as you pass by,As you are now, so once was I,As I am now, so you must be,Prepare for death and follow me.”
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She doesn’t usually wear lipstick. Perhaps it’s because she knows she doesn’t need it. Beauty has been stitched into her from the very beginning. More likely though, it’s because she hates attention. When the light bends toward her, she shifts away. Some call it modesty, others shyness. I just call it her. But today, she
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On a brick-lined alley, next to Daisy, a corgi with more charm than Poe’s raven, I stumbled across this sign: ‘Poe-etry in the pocket.’ It struck me that literature is never just confined to books or screens. It leaks into alleys, into conversations, into the static hum of daily life. We write, we post, we
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Ink sleeps heavy,bleeding into silence. Screens breathe fast,like blue fire on skin. Paper.Static.Fleeting. I hover between,half ghost, half spark, consumed, never whole.
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Gregory Ulmer, an American media theorist and professor emeritus at the University of Florida, defines electracy as the digital-age counterpart to literacy. He coined the term electracy in the 1990s as an analogy to literacy, and his work focuses on rhetoric, literacy, and digital culture. In other words, literacy taught us how to communicate, think,
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