Author Archives: Jordan Sanchez

reflective paper

I think the most interesting part of the 3rd chapter in Duncombes book is when he speaks about the relation that GTA has to middle aged white men such as himself. He’s taken out of his normal world of being … Continue reading →

Throughout the first chapter of this book I saw a certain point being made which was that in today’s society, fantasy has almost overtaken the rational and reality. A paragraph on page 13 really brought this point home for me. … Continue reading →

This picture is meant to represent the feelings towards firearms in the United States. So many people in the country believe that guns are necessary and almost put them on a pedestal. The “In God We Trust” at the bottom … Continue reading →

In the Dominguez piece we see a strategy that his group and numerous others used against the company E-Toys. After the company went after a net art group which had had the domain name “E-Toy.com” for years demanding they give … Continue reading →

In the Dominguez piece we first learn about where Dominguez grew up. He was raised in Nevada and was very formed by the fact that he believed that Nevada was 3 distinct worlds. He eventually began attending cocaine parties that … Continue reading →

I think that acts of activism can and in fact should be fun. In the piece we read by Jordan we see that people went out and had basically parties in the roads in order to set back the construction … Continue reading →

Issue Paper

In class today I found a couple of sources to help with discussing the economic part of my topic. The part of the film we watched kind of had a connection with the project showing how much money moves around … Continue reading →

In Frank’s article he explains that in society people can no longer rebel against the system because all the advertising that is geared towards us is encouraging us to do so. How could we possibly do what we want and … Continue reading →

After reading the piece I think the reason Johnny can’t dissent is obvious. The corporations that we would want to rebel against are actually encouraging us to do so. We want to be ourselves to fight the system but the … Continue reading →

Exploratory Paper   Exploratory Paper Edit   The process that I went through writing this paper was a difficult one as you know, After first not really using my sources in a productive way, I found it a bit challenging … Continue reading →

exploratory draft

Throughout all of our readings we have seen how media affects all of us. In Postman’s “Media as Epistemology” he talks about the fact that a lot of of the things we view on television is junk but he is … Continue reading →

Tech-Lit Narrative

In “From Technocracy to Technopoly” Postman describes the differences as he views them between the 2 eras. He sees Technopoly being an almost full on overtaking by machines and technology. Before in a Technocracy, the inventions and technology built were … Continue reading →

“Given the facts, we must conclude that tool-using cultures are not necessarily impoverished technologically, and may even be surprisingly sophisticated. Of course, some tool-using cultures were (and still are) technologically primitive, and some have even displayed a contempt for crafts … Continue reading →

1. Hello, my name is Jordan. I was born and raised in New York, so the city holds a very special place in my heart. I’m a huge basketball and football fan and just in general love the competition that … Continue reading →