Cytherea Mandingo Quote

Workshops dissent

"Those who have opened people's eyes,

charge it to its blindness. "

John Milton

In 1998, Noam Chomsky, considered the greatest contemporary linguist, and Edward S. Hermann, professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, published the essay Manufacturing Consens, translated and distributed in Italy in the same year and later expanded and reissued under the title The manufacture of consent .

In the publication the two American authors demonstrate data in hand, the responsibilities of a hidden consensus' s elite in shaping the news revealing the mechanisms through which the information world mobilizes public opinion to support and defend the "special interests" that dominate in society.

The home of Pulitzer, journalism, aggressive, stubborn, always present at the event and always committed to the pursuit of truth, as it is represented and imagined by the general public does not correspond to reality and the logic dictated, taxes or simply accepted by American publishers and newspapers.

In the essays that from today I will begin to publish on the blog, and in this paper represents a sort of introduction, I'll see what I call the workshops of dissent, in opposition to Manufacturing Consent to .

contrast that you can already see the two terms:

factory,

which place Industrial production for the general public;

workshop place instead of handicraft production, and often fault repair of baked goods from the factory, for a small audience, almost niche.

As long as the productive dimensions have been described, and it was up to the time that preceded the spread of websites in the world, the factory absolutely had no reason to fear the activity of ' workshop, and indeed the latter is the outlet for those who complain about intolerance and lack of counter, ever-present need in an advanced society.

As workshop never accepted this coexistence and always denounced the manipulation of factory, this could stifle the complaints and counter thanks to the constant monitoring of Media Information possession, or which could count malleability, working real strategies of mass distraction , to use a happy and effective formula which would describe the pounding action items and more to dissuade the public from the real issues of public interest.

But often the voice of dissent was persistent, being able to filter through the cracks of the stone placed by the owners to lodge information and even just the suspicion among the public about the news that came meal and dates of which had previously given rise to the need.

In Italy, because we will talk about the Italian, but not only, of course, these attempts in the era before the Web, have been paid with their lives, and in general tell us that it was only the Mafia, while there is no reason to believe that others have specific interest, if not driven, no doubt encouraged, the hand of the mafia.

The reader will be given the opportunity in each test from now on will be published to form a clear opinion about which gangs have been killed by the artisans of dissent, whose sins, once again could only be not to align with the positions adopted by the factory consensus and expect to make correct and honest information.

The first essay that follows this introduction, titled From Wall to Web , it is proposed to frame the global balance of power systems in the time before the advent of the Internet and over time the spread of the network.

Giuseppe D'Urso, a teacher very precarious, from Catania.