Saturday, July 16, 2011

Notes on Angela McRobbie, "Reflections On Feminism, Immaterial Labour And The Post-fordist Regime"

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Someone at the Postautonomia conference recommended this article by Angela McRobbie, which gives an overview of the post-Fordist/immaterial...
Tuesday, July 05, 2011

McLuhan's Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

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I recently read McLuhan's Understanding Media, and I underlined a few things. Most of the book seemed pretty obvious or uselessly hyper...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Alice Marwick's "Status Update" (chapters 1-4)

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From Alice Marwick's dissertation,"STATUS UPDATE: CELEBRITY, PUBLICITY AND SELF-BRANDING IN WEB 2.0." ( pdf ) As the title mak...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Commons as contentless

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From an essay by Evan Calder Williams called "A Fire to the Commons," a critique of (among other things) "the thought that ...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

China and industrial policy

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From this post at Naked Capitalism, about a paper ( pdf ) by Andrew Haldane and Richard Davies of the Bank of England. They find that myopi...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Reality TV and social media

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I was excited to see that Kelefa Sanneh's review article on Reality TV books in the New Yorker cites Mark Andrejevic, whose work I had...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Paolo Virno's "Notes on the 'General Intellect' "

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In Marxism Beyond Marxism, Saree Makdisi, Cesare Casarino, Rebecca Karl, Eds. Virno ruminates over the significance of Marx's Fragmen...