Wednesday, October 04, 2006

word of the day - iGeneration

Wikipedia describes the iGeneration, in one sentence, as:

The term foregrounds the paradoxical ways in which this generation's idiosyncratic subjectivity and individualism ("I") develop within global capitalism and its technological mediation in a way that both constrains and expands the possibilities for identity-formation, akin to how Michel Foucault points to the relationship between sexuality and discourse in the nineteenth century's generative effects of power.

Well, I think that just about covers it. But just in case you needed any visual aid to clarify:



Ya, I'm scared too.

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