New technologies influence writing, triggering a redefinition of the relationship between writer-text-reader-critic and giving birth to a new contemporary fictional model, characterized by fragment organization, character crisis, dramatization of the epic and the lyric text, narrative crisis, a mixture of various aspects of language, exploration of diverse enunciative spaces. The digital era has become […]
Role of Aghan Khan Development Network in Sustainable Development hailed in a seminar
Seminar on Role of Agha Khan Development Network on Sustainable Development. CHITRAL: A day long seminar was held here at Booni some 75 KM from here on “Role of Aghan Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Sustainable Development organized by Ismaili Regional Council and ITREB Upper Chitral celebrating Golden Jubilee of 49th Spiritual Imam […]
Golden Jobilee Celebration AKDN Services hailed
Seminar on Role of Agha Khan Development Network on Sustainable Development. CHITRAL: A day long seminar was held here at Booni some 75 KM from here on “Role of Aghan Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Sustainable Development organized by Ismaili Regional Council and ITREB Upper Chitral celebrating Golden Jubilee of 49th Spiritual Imam […]
Consumerism creates a new society
Consumerism creates a new society Modern consumption is mediated by market relations and takes the form of the consumption of commodities. The consumer’s access to consumption is largely structured by the distribution of material and cultural resources (money and taste), which itself is determined in crucial ways by market relations above all the wage relation […]
My Kid Could Paint That, and so could I
Last week I watched a 2007 documentary titled <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0912592/">My Kid Could Paint That</a>. It chronicles the rise and fall of four year old painter <a href="http://www.marlaolmstead.com/home.html">Marla Olmstead</a>. Watching the film was an academic exercise for me. However, it was also enjoyable. I took notes on a number of things as I watched. The most […]
Walking El Camino de Santiago: The Complete Notes.
The complete notes include a brief how it came about and walking from Estella to the Atlantic then to London for a visit and back again to France then through the Pyrrennes to where I came in. The notes are written by two different people from two very different walks of life. See my article […]