I spent yesterday afternoon at a public dialogue on debt and forgiveness (in an age of excess) hosted by the students of a 400-level Communications course on dialogue and public issues. I initially was interested in attending based on some of the questions related to responsibility for the negative consequences of consumerism. However, it was the moral/theological dimension of the issue that became most interesting to me.
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My name is Benjamin Woo. I am currently working on a PhD dissertation on nerd culture in the School of Communication, SFU. In my research and teaching I am interested in the cultural environment constituted by consumer capitalism and in the conditions of possibility for new kinds of communities constructed from the raw materials provided by the cultural industries. -
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