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    Dr. Tony Kashani

    Tony Kashani, Ph.D. is an Iranian-American author, educator and cultural critic. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Humanities with emphasis on culture studies from California Institute of Integral Studies. Kashani is the author of five books on media; Deconstructing the Mystique, (2005, 2009, Kendall/Hunt Press), Hollywood’s Exploited: Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Studies (2010, Palgrave/MacMillan Press), Lost in Media: Ethics of Everyday Life (2013, Peter Lang Press) and Movies Change Lives: A Pedagogy of Humanistic Transformation (Peter Lang Press, 2016). Kashani is a subject matter expert and faculty for a number of universities in the United States, focusing his interdisciplinary scholarship and pedagogy on media and social justice.

    Month: December 2010

     THE PHOTOGRAPH & MORALITY

    December 26, 2010July 17, 2017 Tony Kashani Leave a comment Articles

    In her excellent book, On Photography, Susan Sontag has managed to give us two things to ponder; a history of photography as the closest replication of reality and a deeper examination of power of photography, which is not lost on anyone, I gather.Thinking about this, I am reminded of Richard Rorty’s assertion of the role […]

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     THE VERY IDEA OF CONSCIENCE

    December 25, 2010July 17, 2017 Tony Kashani Leave a comment Articles

    As I was rewriting an essay on ethics of social media I was once again reminded of Erich Fromm’s thesis on the very notion of “conscience” in Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics, a book he wrote back in 1947. I find many of Fromm’s ideas and theoretical treatments of the […]

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     ROLE OF MEDIA

    December 24, 2010July 17, 2017 Tony Kashani Leave a comment Articles

    I was recently asked, what is the role of media in this kind of instrumentality of representation in order to control our thoughts, our hopes and our actions?That is a good question and quite relevant in this century!First, let us deconstruct –or rather allow this to deconstruct itself—the notion of media representation. If we are to put […]

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