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Review of Dave Eggers’ The Circle
Just finished. I’m still reflecting, and I don’t often write reviews of books right after I finish them–gotta let it marinate. This one is certainly still marinating. But, if I don’t force myself to write it now, I don’t know … Continue reading
Posted in Annotations, Daily Create, Journal
Tagged absolutism, annotation, daily create, dave eggers, eggers, everyman, everywoman, female sexuality, frown, hegemony, literature, Mae Holland, morality, norms, novel, relativism, smile, social media, society, surveillance, the circle, values, women
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Groupthink Moral Absolutism
‘Okay, with that kind of thing, one of two things will eventually happen. First, we’ll realize that whatever behavior we’re talking about is so widespread and harmless that it needn’t be secret. If we demystify it, if we admit that … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Create, Journal, Watching Each Other
Tagged absolutism, confessional, control, dave eggers, digital, discipline, discipline and punish, ethics, foucault, history of sexuality, internet, morality, online, panopticon, policing, relativism, social media, the circle, transparency
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Thinking about aphorisms and The Circle…
I found this passage that seems relevant in Suzy Anger’s Victorian Interpretation, in which she quotes George Eliot in The Mill on the Floss: All people of broad, strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims because such people … Continue reading
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Tagged aphorisms, dave eggers, digital, irl, literature, maxims, morality, sympathy, technology, the circle, victorian
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