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Gangs, drugs, street racing, bullying, video game addiction. These are the typical negative headlines we associate with today’s youth. It’s really no wonder why young people disengage from a media that reinforces negative stereotypes and treats them as an entity to be seen, observed, critiqued but not heard. One of the things I’ve always told [...]

My article below was originally published in Mindjack Magazine online. October 28, 2002 | There has never been a better time to read the work of comic book legend Warren Ellis. From the formulaic pornography of news coverage to the on-going ineptitude of our world “leaders”, Ellis delivers an intelligent and savagely funny antidote to [...]

My article below originally published in Mindjack Magazine online. April 29, 2002 | If there’s a message of the for dummies age it’s that nothing is beyond our grasp. And our desire to believe this is reinforced by trends like usability, which privilege economy over elucidation. No one anticipated it all better than Marshall McLuhan, [...]