Monday, February 28, 2011

personal brand as neoliberal subjectivity, fashion industry as modeling circuit for development of such a self

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There's probably some theoretical jargon I could find to describe what's going on with Google's initiatives in the fashion indus...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

MIchael Bull's Sound Moves

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A bit repetitive, as though it were article expanded into a book. It consists mainly of snippets from interviews with iPod users, and seems ...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Rebranding the American system to include redistribution

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From Steve Waldman at Interfluidity : Health care costs are millions of people’s livelihood, and inefficient health care costs are a big pa...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Kunkel's LRB article about David Harvey and crisis

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From this LRB article, which more or less digests Harvey's 1982 book Limits of Capital. Marx proposed that ‘the tendency to create t...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

cocktail napkin notes about personal branding

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1, Branding is a culture-wide idiom now for meaning-making. It provides the terms by which we conceive of and interpret the artistic, the au...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

dialectical thinking about new capitalism, social media

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A key question for me is whether social media "solves" the contradictions of new capitalism that shifts all sorts of risk onto wor...

new capitalism, social media

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Miscellaneous thoughts inspired by Richard Sennett's Culture of New Capitalism : 1. Information technology deskills communication. It ...