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Category Archives: Cartoon
Anthropology Conference
The four fields…plus.
The Mic
Saturated Radicalization
Technical: I started this iPad drawing in August of 2013. It was one of my first in Paper by Fifty Three. There were a few things about the image that I wanted to change, so I imported it into Procreate and made some alterations.
The title, saturated radicalization came after deciding not to call it: Misinformed but Well Embalmed.
Three Bullet Points
I’ve had this drawing with me for several years. I think I sketched at an evaluation conference in the early 2000s. At any rate, they say that if you break complicated things down into three points, then folks will be more likely to understand them, maybe even become them. I tweaked a thing or two in Procreate. It was rough to begin with,
- Who know?
- Who cares?
- So what?
The Social Media Circus
We rented The Elephant Man (1980) a couple of weeks ago and subsequently learned that it was Mel Brooks who hired David Lynch to direct the film. (See also the Wikipedia entry.) Who better to influence the portrayal of the circus!
The film moved me and helped me to understand a little better what is dramatized in the Comments Section of so many posts in social media, something I’ve tried to deal with elsewhere.
Cognitive Condiments
“All reasoning is thinking, but not all thinking is reasoning.”
Irving M. Copi, Introduction to Logic
Oblong Hermeneutics
Busy Day for Some
Subscription & Enculturation
This one took a circuitous route. It started when I was reminded of those TV commercials that feature a series of actors reciting a snippet of what then becomes a more complete sales pitch, something I dislike almost as much as children in ads. Then it occurred to me that this technique is much more emblematic and generalizable.
We hardly ever walk our way into anything of social significance; rather, we talk our way in. Sometimes there’s even a script; sometimes there isn’t. The script is the doorway.
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