Author Archives: Naveeda Akhtar

Reflection Paper

Duncombe helps to create a terrific visualization of a world in which many of us look to escape to. Often times our internal desires for sex or death are what triggers us to conform to playing such video games like … Continue reading →

Given from what I have read from Duncombe`s “Dream,” an idea that I have for how we should approach the Collaborative Tactical Media Project is that we should somehow create a Manufacturers dissent which helps to create something that is … Continue reading →

I replaced a teenager`s face with a baby`s face to depict just how much of a child the teenager really is. Teenagers are at the age where they believe that they are adults and can choose how they live their … Continue reading →

In Ricardo Dominguez’s piece, “Electronic Disturbance,” Dominguez along with a group of members, followed a strategy of electronic civil disobedience. This strategy drew attention to the cause of the Zapatistas and caused many sites to view it as if it … Continue reading →

In “Electronic Disturbance: An Interview” by Ricardo Dominguez, Dominguez grew up in a region in Las Vegas, Nevada where he was constantly exposed to different forms of civil disobedience in many shapes and forms. Later on, he goes through his … Continue reading →

The relationship between Kirk and Spock has been changed from a friendship to that of a homoerotic one according to some female Star Trek fans. Due to several scenes involving eye contact and gestures made between the two, as well … Continue reading →

Yes, acts of activism can be fun. When we point out the corruption of companies or businesses, as well as make fun of some of the slogans they say which are often untrue, it can help to act against them … Continue reading →

“On the Phenomenon of bullshit jobs” by David Graeber Graeber explains that many jobs we find are there just to keep us working but in the long run are unhelpful and unworthy of pursuing. They don’t benefit us in any … Continue reading →

sexual exploitation of children

I got to do some research on my topic about Sexual Exploitation on Children while in class. I also started writing about a couple of paragraphs about some articles I found that I believe are essential to my paper. I … Continue reading →

Alex Andreou: ‘The Anti-homeless spikes: ‘Sleeping rough opened my eyes to the city`s barbed cruelty’ In Alex Andreou`s article, the Anti-homeless spikes: ‘Sleeping rough opened my eyes to the city`s barbed cruelty,’ Ocean Howell states “…you are not a member … Continue reading →

Thomas Frank- “Why Johnny Can`t Dissent.” Frank`s thesis is that corporations use capitalism to get everybody to be the same by being the reason for us wanting “never-ending self-fulfillment.” Tom Peters calls the world we live in “A World Turned … Continue reading →

The process that I went to in order to write the Exploratory Paper was mostly choosing the three topics that I wanted to write about, getting information off of EBSCO and LEXISNEXUS through the library database, to incorporate quotes into … Continue reading →

So far, the exploratory paper is going great. I believe that I have some good resources on my three topics since I got all of them off the library database mainly EBSCO and LEXISNEXUS. Hopefully, as I revise the draft … Continue reading →

Manuel Castells: Occupy Wall Street: Harvesting The Salt Of The Earth “It`s time for DEMOCRACY NOT CORPORATOCRACY, we`re doomed without it.” (Castells 160) Literally: This passage is literally saying that it is time that the people who make up the … Continue reading →

In Nail`s essay, Zapatismo and the Global Origins of Occupy, he mentions a French philosopher by the name of Alain Badiou. Badiou talks about there not being a “system in place to challenge party divisions or the party system itself…L` … Continue reading →

Tech-Lit Narrative

Postman states that Technopoly is that “human life must find its meaning in machinery and technique.” (Postman, 52) Individuals went from believing in a God that created everything to not believing in one at all or questioning what his reasons … Continue reading →

“Whereas men had traditionally looked to Heaven to find authority, purpose, and meaning, the Sleepwalkers (As Arthur Koestler called Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo) looked not to Heaven but to the heavens. There they found only mathematical equations and geometric patterns. … Continue reading →

1) My name is Naveeda Akhtar. I am 19 years old and from Pakistan. I love to read, and in my spare time, I like to write short stories and poems about the world around me. I`m taking this class … Continue reading →