The State of Indecency Today
I am giving a talk this evening at the IIT Institute of Design’s first Show & Tell. It is an effort to get out academic ideas to a wider audience.
The basis for the talk is a post I did last year asking whether we had a dirty words innovation problem.
If you are interested in the state of indecency today—the world of Paul Cohen, the late George Carlin and more recently Bono, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake—you might find my slides for tonight interesting.
George Carlin gave his last interview to Psychology Today magazine. He mentions the dirty words sketch in the interview, and adds some interesting thoughts on language.
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200806/george-carlins-last-interview
Posted by: Michael F. Martin | July 31, 2008 at 01:28 PM