Chris Angelis's Blog, page 35
January 14, 2019
Digital Dehumanization: the Dark Side of the Internet
The term digital dehumanization might sound obscure. It surely sounds bad, and referring to the dark side of the internet makes it worse. But what do we mean by digital dehumanization, and what does the internet have to do with it? The term dehumanization refers to the process of depriving a person or a group […]
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January 8, 2019
Optimal Word Count: Dos and Don’ts
If you take a look around you, you’ll discover we’re obsessed with . Your camera is this many megapixels, your phone has this many gigabytes of RAM. It’s no surprise that texts – novels, essays, and blog articles – fall victim to the same process. But what is an optimal word count for a given […]
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January 2, 2019
Illiterary Fiction (New Literary Fiction Novel)
Imagine a world where people snub literature and knowledge. Those who read are “readers”, a derogatory term barely superior to being a burger-flipper. It’s a world just like our own. When you think of it, it is our own. Welcome to Illiterary Fiction, my latest literary-fiction novel. As with most of interesting ideas, this too began with […]
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December 29, 2018
Review of The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce
Writing a review of The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce, by Paul Torday, is an exhilarating experience. I get to talk about the brilliance of the novel and the hopeless mediocrity that surrounds us. Indeed, it’s interesting to give you a quick briefing of how I discovered The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce. I saw the book […]
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December 26, 2018
Appeal to Hypocrisy: the Tu Quoque Fallacy
Articles on fallacies are popular on the Home for Fiction blog. We’ve talked about the Appeal to Nature fallacy, the Bandwagon fallacy, and the Only Game in Town fallacy. Today I’ll talk to you about the Appeal to Hypocrisy fallacy, also known as “Tu Quoque”. The term is Latin and means “You, too”. I will […]
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