The Eighth Disquisition: Memestream
Topics Discussed:
- Memes Going Mainstream
- 4chan Culture and Reddit Culture
- Free Culture
- Is Copyright This Generation's Prohibition?
- Internet Bill of Rights
- From Airpower to Drones
- Star Trek
- Geek Debate as Religion
- Films as Propaganda
- TV cuts of movies
- Sexuality and Violence on Television
- Profitable Warfare
- Direct Democratization through Data Communication
Recommended Reading:
- The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
- Free Culture by Larence Lessig
- The Name of the Game by Varda Liberman, Lee Ross, and Steven M. Samuels
- The Age of Airpower by Martin Van Creveld
Recommended Viewing:
- Star Trek: The Original Series (Remastered) created by Gene Roddenberry
Recommended Listening:
Recommended Podcast Episodes:
Recommended Subreddits:
Recommended Links:
- Geeks Of Doom: Movie Review - Contagion
- Liquid Feedback: Interactive Democracy - Mission Statement
- Social Media Bill Of Rights 0.1
- The Verge: At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream
- Wired: Pentagon quit The Avengers because of its "unreality"
- Wired: U.N. Report Declares Internet Access a Human Right
Disquisition is a podcast documenting the meandering tangents and discursive ramblings within ongoing conversations between Greg Davies aka cGt2099 and Lee Garnett aka ncomment. The show goes in depth into a variety of thoughts ranging from socio-cultural elements and political elements within social media; to history and philosophy, and a variety of book and film recommendations.
Music used in the Disquisition Intro and Closing Theme was performed and written by Terr Ciavarra aka Media Nox
Catch Greg Davies online at the Social Blend Podcast and on Twitter @cGt2099
Catch Lee Garnett online at his ncomment comics blog and on Twitter @ncomment