Author Archives: Christopher Navarrete

Final Reflective Paper

Stephen Duncombe’s 3rd chapter of Dream: Reimagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy discusses why we play violent video games such as Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (GTA). According to Duncombe, although GTA allows us to kill and steal … Continue reading →

Stephen Duncombe in “Politics in an Age of Fantasy”  talks about how society doesn’t listen to the truth unless it is a spectacle shown in center stage. Sometimes fantasy is used alongside spectacle to create a narrative, a better story made … Continue reading →

Fast Food This detournement shows the amount of sugar in each fast food beverage. It was created in hopes that it would cause individuals to rethink what they consume if they do drink beverages such as the ones shown. The … Continue reading →

A strategy from Ricardo Dominguez’s piece that interested me was overloading websites. In the article, forty five women and children were killed by the Mexican military in an event called the Acteal Massacre. This influenced Dominguez’s decision to take action … Continue reading →

Ricardo Dominguez in “Electronic Disturbance: An Interview” discusses the journey of how he became interested in committing acts of electronic civil disobedience. This began shortly after coming to New York City, where everything he had was stolen from him within … Continue reading →

I consider acts of activism to be quite the fun experience. The way we detourned famous slogans made me feel this way as it was interesting to think about companies in a different way. For example, Nike’s slogan “just do … Continue reading →

Issue Paper

1) “When you’re designed against, you know it” (Andreou). I believe this quote sets the tone for what the whole article is about as it describes how alienated the homeless may feel from being driven away by anti-homeless spikes. As … Continue reading →

1) Thomas Frank’s thesis is that businesses have changed in the way they advertise. Instead of conveying a sense of “conformity” (which was used in the past), they want consumers to feel that they can be different. This “difference” (otherwise known as counterculture) … Continue reading →

My process was not very long. I first discovered what I would use as topics, then I did extensive research on the topics chosen. After that, I pinpointed what websites could be good enough to cite. Finally, I tried figuring out what I … Continue reading →

So far, I believe I have found enough information to discuss the three social justice issues that I have chosen. I mostly used sources from reliable journalistic sites, though I did find several academic ones from Ebsco as well. This draft only … Continue reading →

Lewis Mumford: “The Automation of Knowledge” “When our translation of organic and human aptitudes into their system-controlled mechanical counterparts has fully taken place, man will have lost the full use of even his physical organs. There are areas in this … Continue reading →

Neil Postman in “Media as Epistemology” claims that every medium of communication has resonance. Resonance is, according to Northrop Fryes, created once “a particular statement in a particular context acquires a universal significance” (Postman 17). However as Postman claims, resonance … Continue reading →

Lit-Tech Narrative

“In any case, theological assumptions served as a controlling ideology, and whatever tools were invented had, ultimately, to fit within that ideology. We may say, further, that all tool-using cultures—from the technologically most primitive to the most sophisticated—are theocratic or, … Continue reading →

1) Hey guys, my name is Christopher Navarrete and I am currently in my 3rd semester. I recently changed my major to professional and technical writing because I realized how much I truly enjoy writing from my time in previous … Continue reading →