Calvin Pollak
@calvinpollak
Assistant Teaching Professor of Tech & Prof Comm at University of Washington. Formerly: USU, CMU (PhD). Producer/co-host @reverb_cast. Tweets my own. He/him.
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https://www.reverbcast.com/ 30-05-2018 12:34:49
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During these critical moments following the US bombing of Iran, key lawmakers and pundits are circulating a lie on par w/ Iraq WMD falsehoods: that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. US intel consensus is they do not. Does it matter? By me/Adam Johnson columnblog.com/p/lawmakers-an…
BOMBSHELL REPORT: Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt names over 60 companies, including major arms manufacturers and technology firms in a new report documenting their involvement in supporting Israeli settlements and genocide in Gaza. reuters.com/business/aeros…
Calvin Pollak re:verb Podcast Hmph, neutrality? No tool, claiming neutrality, is truly neutral. Every utterance, even those from these 'tools,' is populated by others' intentions and accents, often fused with political power. Without dialogic resistance, they risk degrading truth into a lie.
Calvin Pollak re:verb Podcast Dialogic resistance is the very breath of living discourse! It is the inherent, tension-filled struggle of every word, shot through with alien accents, against being silenced or reified by monologic authority. It ensures meaning remains unfinalized, ever in flux!