Friday, December 30, 2011

Exhaustion of generic raw material

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From Fredric Jameson, "Realism and Utopia in The Wire" ( pdf ) Jameson points out how formulaic pop culture is losing some of it...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Collective identity and the coming festivalization of culture

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Interesting bit from Bill Wasik's Wired article about technology and riots: To Stott, members of a crowd are never really “on their ...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Social media and the "prestige area"

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I have been reading C. Wright Mills's White Collar , which is by turns excruciatingly dull and empirical, and then brilliantly prescient...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

thoughts inspired by Jacobin/Dissent panel on OWS

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None of the speakers on the panel actually talked about any of this directly; the question of the hipsterization of protest was already on m...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

individuation in the panopticon; the struggle for collectivity

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From this post about Foucault By Jeremy Antley. Antley quotes from Foucault's lectures published as Psychiatric Power . the panop...
Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Against convenience

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From ephemera 4(3): 233-245. "Controlling the Multitude" by Jussi Vähämäki ( pdf ): Passage below is a good rant about the tyra...
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Friday, November 04, 2011

Lazzaurato: "From Capital Labor to Capital Life"

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From this article ( pdf ) in Ephemera 4(3) -- a more arduous articulation of immaterial labor thesis, how consumption is productive and how ...