Author Archives: Rownak

1710 FINAL PROJECT Rownak C  

Duncombe’s Dream: Reimagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy is a book which I am enjoying reading far more than any of the other readings for our class. The chapters that we have read so far are about identifying … Continue reading →

“..But really at this point, what do we have to lose?” That is how Duncombe finishes the first chapter of his book, Dream: Reimagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy. It very much correlates with what we are aiming to … Continue reading →

For the article written by Ricardo Dominguez, I kept thinking about Facebook. Facebook is an only social media outlet where people feel that they are in complete control. By liking a couple of websites and posts regarding animal cruelty and … Continue reading →

The picture above was illustrated by Stephen Kroninger. I thought to look up creative detournements by Stephen Kroninger, as he was referenced in Mark Dery’s piece called “Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of Signs. This detournement speaks … Continue reading →

Part 1: I believe enjoyment is truly gained from by people when they are invested in something that they are passionate about. Many people whom we come into contact with have been stripped away of their passions by daily capitalistic … Continue reading →

Response to “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs” by David Graeber This article raises many questions in my mind as to which jobs are real and which aren’t. My parents shed their blood and sweat to provide their families with … Continue reading →

Issue Paper by Rownak C

I was able to work on my project for approximately twenty minutes after watching a portion of the video and having a class discussion on it after. Because I had read up on some of the sources which I am … Continue reading →

On the last page of Alex Andreou’s article called “Anti-homeless spokes: ‘Sleeping rough opened my eyes to the city’s barbed cruelty” is a sentence stating “The rough sleeper’s bad fortune is intricately connected to someone else’s good fortune.” This sentence … Continue reading →

Rownak C Exploratory Paper The process which I went through in completing this assignment required of me to find the proper sources first. I knew what I wanted to write about, but was still quite unsure of how to properly … Continue reading →

“In other words, there was considerable diversity in the forms of protest and in the shape of the occupations. But what is clear is the fast spread of the movement throughout the entire geography of the country: Mosier, Oregon, population … Continue reading →

The basic principle of technopoly, as stated in Neil Postman’s writing, is that technique of any kinds can do our thinking for us. Technocracy requires much less commitment from the people of a society. Technopoly has technology as the center … Continue reading →

“All of them to the end, clung to the theology of their age. They would surely not have been indifferent to knowing when the Last Judgement would come, and they could not have imagined the world without God. Moreover, the … Continue reading →

Hello folks, My name is Rownak Choudhury. As many of you know, I was a part of this class in the prior semester. I had to leave due to some personal reasons. I realize that there are some changes which … Continue reading →

1. Writing restructures consciousness. What is meant by this? Name one way in which this takes place. -What is meant by writing restructuring consciousness in the book is that it transforms speech, as well as thought. In our point of … Continue reading →

          How did our brains come to grasp the concept of putting symbols down on a rock, leaf, or paper to provide meaning to another person taking a look at those symbols? If a person who has absolutely no knowledge of the … Continue reading →

In Walter J. Ong’s Orality and Literacy, he writes about how literacy is derived from orality. After the brain has recognized a full thought, it can be verbally expressed through the art of orality. Only after that expression of orality is … Continue reading →

“The Consequences of Literacy” by Jack Goody and Ian Watt gives the reader an extensive amount of research material and understanding of the subject covered by Goody and Watt. Their article is based on the dichotomy of the literate and … Continue reading →