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by Alex Tabisher
My key-word for this week is reification. In its simplest (Marxist) form it referred to social relations that were perceived as inherent attributes of people involved in them.
One shudders at the political damage that can be caused and inflicted by such thinking as ideology. It basically claims that a falsehood can be repeated until it sounds, and is accepted, as a truth.
After Marx, semiologists played around with the notion of reification as a linguistic notion to the extent that George Orwell evolved âdouble-speakâ as a narratological device. Hitler wrote in
Power Up: Marjorie Taylor Greene is just a symptom of the larger GOP disinformation problem Jacqueline Alemany The people
HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE?: Democrats want the Georgia lawmaker who has spread dangerous conspiracy theories, made racist remarks and urged the execution of Democratic lawmakers to resign. Republicans, however, plan on sitting down to have a stern chat with her. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) confirmed to Power Up he is sitting down next week with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to discuss the comments including liking a Facebook post calling for executing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the false “Frazzledrip” conspiracy theory.
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NEW YORK There is no question that we are all more dependent on technology than ever. So what happens when that tech does not work?
In the past, Emily Dreyfuss used an old-school strategy: She yelled.
When Amazon’s Alexa spat out wrong answers or misunderstood questions, Dreyfuss let the virtual assistant have it.
“I used her as a scapegoat for my feelings,” said Dreyfuss, a writer and editor for Harvard’s Shorenstein Center.