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“The kings’ messengers” by Franz Kafka, 1917
They were given the choice of becoming kings or the kings’ messengers. As is the way with children, they all wanted to be messengers. That is why there are only messengers, racing through the world and, since there are no kings, calling out to each other the messages that have now become meaningless. They would […]
• By Philippe Theophanidis on July 20, 2013 ― Published in Communication | Tagged: journalism, Kafka, media, message, modernity, parable, philosophy, Sloterdijk

Portrait of Michel Houellebecq (2010)
☛ The New Yorker: accompanying photo for James Woods’ review of The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq, January 23, 2011, p. 79. Photo by WireImage contributor Dominique Charriau. © WireImage. The original caption by WireImage reads as follows: Michel Houellebecq gives a press conference after he received the 2010 Prix Goncourt at Restaurant […]
• By Philippe Theophanidis on January 19, 2012 ― Published in Art, Communication, Literature, Photography | Tagged: Apostle, event, Goncourt, Gospel, Houellebecq, media, message, Messiah, modernity, news

Facebook Messages as a relief for the burden of emails
A couplayears ago, Thanksgiving, we were hanging out with my girlfriend’s family, who has a high school sister. I wanted to know what software they were using, it makes me feel really old. I asked what they use for email? They said they don’t use anything, it’s too slow. I said what do you mean, […]
• By Philippe Theophanidis on November 16, 2010 ― Published in Communication, Technology | Tagged: chat, cognition, email, Facebook, information, instant, message, overload, speed, time

The idea and it’s expression : Mai Lai/Zapruder line of cases
Via Boston.com / The Big Picture: A Brown Pelican is seen on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) I first found this photo over at Washington’s Blog. The post where it appears makes a (short) argument about the ban of media coverage […]
• By Philippe Theophanidis on July 13, 2010 ― Published in Art, Communication, Photography, Technology | Tagged: animal, British Petroleum, catastrophe, constitution, content, disaster, expression, fair use, form, freedom, human, idea, image, law, medium, message, press, representation, shock, United-States, Zapruder