The 'Kant Attack Ad' YouTube video is as much an argument about media as it is about Kant. While the gimmick holds true as an interesting joke, the form (political attack ads) sometimes reflects a content (swift boat anyone?) that is profoundly un-Nietzsche. The most important part of this clip is what it says about media ecology: enlightenment rationality reflects a print-ecology which has passed us by for a simulated, nihilistic visual ecology where political discourse looks like an attack ad.
...and it never hurts to have some Sesame Street
Duncan
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