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An annex to my writing elsewhere.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Surveillance and the shop window

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Another social media surveillance paper, "Deconstructing Bentham’s Panopticon: The New Metaphors of Surveillance in the Web 2.0 Enviro...

Self-surveillance, economism, the flux of embedded values in markets

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I have been reading a few papers lately about online social networking and surveillance. One of which, "Web 2.0, Prosumption, and Surve...
Friday, April 15, 2011

found on sticky note

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"frightening" growth of commodities that capitalism engenders -- recurrent problem for subjects within capitalism -- Marx's op...
Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Fun morality

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From Jean Baudrillard's The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures . Baudrillard argues for the productive function of consumption, whic...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Facebook and credit worthiness; What is post-Fordism

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From the draft version of "VALUE IN INFORMATIONAL CAPITALISM AND ON THE INTERNET. A REPLY TO CHRISTIAN FUCHS" by Adam Arvidsson a...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

inseparability of freedom and alienation

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It is hard to argue with those who say that Facebook is making their lives better. I complain about the nefarious nature of the social-netwo...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

fashion and destroying calculating consciousness

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From The Fashion System by Roland Barthes. A very skimmable book because most of it is, as he writes, "purely imminent description of ...
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