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Alex Burnsalex@alexburns.net
Oases Graduate School‘Time, Media & Consciousness’ Unit
27th April 2009Version 1.0
Mediascapes & Conscientisation
Arjun Appadurai’sMediascapes
Mediascape: 1. Situates media images, production and dissemination in global cultural flows. 2. Digital media artefact
Micro: The Moment of Insight
[Fictional] Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan has a moment of insight, through information revelation, of Uganda’s idealistic utopia under ruler Idi Amin: a brutal, corrupt dictatorship
Micro: ‘Remorse of Conscience’
Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire was Force Commander of UNAMIR, the United Nations peacekeeping force in Rwanda, during the Hutu-Tutsi genocide in 1994
Micro: Whistleblowers
Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, a former VP of R&D at Brown & Williamson, becomes a whistleblower and reveals to 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman some ugly truths about Big Tobacco research
Meso: Feet of Clay Leaders
The last days of the Third Reich in Hitler’s bunker, from the viewpoint of Hitler’s young secretary Traudl Junge, contrasted with the Allied forces’ capture of Berlin
Meso: Shadow Organisation
Law firm ‘fixer’ Michael Clayton uses cunning (metis) to protect the unstable attorney Arthur Edens, in a class action suit against U-North, an agricultural conglomerate
Meso: Strategic Games
Peter Morgan’s play depicts the strategic games and bargaining negotiations around David Frost’s 1977 television interview of former US President Richard Nixon
Meso: Ethics & Decision Traps
Dr. Manhattan, The Comedian, Ozymandias and Rorschach illustrate different ethical perceptions of good and evil, and group decision traps in dealing with macro and civilisational threats
Meso: Group Dynamics
Explores the group dynamics, radicalisation process and splintering of the militant activist group The Weather Underground including the ‘Days of Rage’ and ‘Prairie Fire’ periods
Macro: Shadow Globalisation
The interconnectedness of Malthusian epidemics, environmental degradation, poverty, religiopolitical ideologies, and arms trade flows
Macro: Deep Politics
University of Notre Dame’s Carolyn Nordstrom conducts ethnographic research on the deep politics of war, political violence and extra-legal international networks
Sheldrake-McKenna-AbrahamTrialogues
‘Trialogue’: A method to facilitate discussion amongst three people which explores new vistas and complex problems
Questions?