BARACK OBAMA President Elect – Webpage Roundup
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 | Pop Culture Notions, Power & Politics
Check out this gallery of webpages as of last night. Al Jazeera’s arabic site is pretty interesting and also notice the advertisements on each page.
I like BBC’s (shown above) “Whiter Whites” ad for some laundry detergent (Tide? Clorox?) , a perfect partner for a lead story about America’s first black president. hee hee. Roland Barthes has some interesting thoughts about Laundry Detergents in his collection of essays Mythologies. In one essay Barthes uses psychoanalysis to break apart the methods that soap companies use to sell detergents. His writing is wonderfully dense, here is a excerp:
“Persil Whiteness,” for instance, bases its prestige on the evidence of the result; it calls into play vanity, a social concern with appearances, by offering for comparison two objects, one of which is whiter than the other. Advertisements for Omo also indicate the effect of the product (and in superlative fashion, incidentally), but they chiefly reveal its mode of action; in doing so, they involve the consumer in a kind of direct experience of the substance, make him the accomplice of a liberation rather than the mere beneficiary of a result; matter here is endowed with value-bearing states.
Anyhow, how are all you election addicts handling the withdrawl? I sat around all day tinkering with the website, drinking coffee and listening to WNYC. Amazing how quickly these news agencies shift gears. Most are focusing on Obama’s plan for transition of power. FOX NEWS on the other hand seems to be ALREADY setting up Obama for failure during his first 100 days in office. This win is the best thing to ever happen for Sean Hannnity’s career.
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