Thursday, June 30, 2011

theDirty.com website

TheDirty.com is a controversial website. It allows people to post pictures and comments of people they know. It is usually a vindictive, cruel, and vicious, form of cyber-bullying. Here is a sample from the site:





                                                               

                           
The Dirty Army: Nik, Brenda Dunlopp pictured here is a voracious reader who volunteers twice a week at the soup kitchen. But what people don’t know, is that Brenda sides with Jürgen Habermas in the Foucault-Habermas debate. Brenda maintains that Habermas’ ideas of ‘communicative rationality’ are more valid than Foucault’s ideas of “power analytics”.
Answer: Have to refer to Nancy Fraser’s summation that Foucault’s work is a mixture of “empirical insights and normative confusions.” -but her chin is a little crooked.

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