Amazing experience listening to keynote speaker Prof. Ron Arnett build speech around my book, revealing depths I didn’t know it had. He talked about the ground of ethics, about communication as secondary to content and the need not for more dialogue, which can lead to empty engagement, but capacity to,listen to monologue, to hear the other.
In particular he highlighted book’s acceptance of fallibility and multiplicity as opposed to modernity’s unipolar linear insistence on one positive narrative. Role of shadow strongly welcomed as counter balance to this story. Really wonderful to hear my work reflected back with such depth of reflection.
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Euprera 2014 book focus
Posted in Book, Conferences, Ethics, PR and society, tagged Belgium, Euprera 2014, Ron Arnett on September 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »
First reviews
Posted in Ethics, PR and society, Uncategorized, Writing, tagged communication ethics, Public relations, publications, Writing on May 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I’m very touched by the generous and thoughtful responses to my book from the range of international professors of communication who have endorsed my forthcoming book (due out in July). Makes me feel like I’ve written the book I wanted to write.
Book reviews for Public relations ethics and professionalism: the shadow of excellence
Keynote speaker invite and the role of the polis
Posted in Conferences, Ethics, PR and society, Research, tagged communication ethics, Conferences, Jung, polis, Writing on May 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Very excited to receive invitation to be a keynote speaker at the 13th Annual Communication Ethics conference at Duquesne University, Pittburgh in June.
Communication Ethics conference
The line-up is really rich and the event is organised around a series of keynotes and discussions as well as panel and paper presentations. Have managed to rearrange planned visit to UK to include quick trip to US (from here, they look very close together). What really attracts me is that the department, led by esteemed Prof Ron Arnett, looks at communication from a philosophical perspective, encouraging a range of debates not always common in the more familiar applied approaches.
I’m working on ideas about the potential for the concept of polis, society in its more exalted state, as a transcendent function, in the Jungian sense, a framework within which the ego (or any entity intent solely on gratification) can become relativised, stepping back from the centre and seeing itself as an aspect of a greater whole. Was feeling very pleased with this idea until an excellent seminar with CSU Professor Steve Redhead this week reminded me that the overarching global structures are currently crumbling around our ears, making them poor candidates for such a role. A podcast based on the seminar can be found here: Steve Redhead’s page.
Hmm. Hoping that asking the question is of interest even if no solutions in sight…….
New piece from Zizek amplifies absence of world order. New Zizek piece
Excellent commentary on collective aspects of recent riots
Posted in PR and society on August 10, 2011| 1 Comment »
Excellent piece (link below), expressing more clearly than I could, that sense that this is playing out an inner drama, that it comes from the collective – the bemusement of individuals asked about their actions on Radio 4 Today this am illustrates the ‘caught in the current’ imperative. Must remember this when I come to write a bigger thing about marketing and culture. Not to underestimate the idiocy of destroying your own community (another trope shared by bankers/oil industry etc) – but to demonstrate how cultural complexes can get acted out in the real world – the phrase ‘violent shopping’ seems particularly apt.
Johanna Fawkes Research 