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February 2012 Blog Posts (2)

IN MEDIA RES - HUNDRED PASSAGES TO SOCIAL CHANGE

IN MEDIA RES (2): hundred passages to social change

Feb. 2012

In media res is a latin expression refering to a narrative form used by Homer in the Iliade and which consist of plunging into a past situation (history), at any point in time, to further develop a story related to a chain of event. He was the first to introduce a non-linear narrative process in greek literature. Since then, many artists explored non-linear creative paths in literature,…

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Added by Jasmin Farand on February 20, 2012 at 1:30pm — No Comments

The Art of Digital Surveillance and Things to Come in Pakistan

The art of surveillance has been practised throughout history. Sun Tzu's The Art of War, for example, written in the Fifth Century BC, contains a chapter on “The Use of Spies” where he describes the different ways spies may be used to monitor enemy forces. The most crucial development that has taken place, with the rise of democratic states, over the last two to three hundred years, is that the focus…

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Added by Arzak Khan on February 15, 2012 at 10:56pm — No Comments