Posts Tagged ‘capitalism’
By Matthew Nelson — April 10th, 2008
Resisting and Reinforcing the ‘Entrepreneurial City’: Labour’s Contradictory Role in the Upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
As Vancouver prepares for the upcoming Winter Olympics in 2010, the bid process has dominated urban discourse with its aim to transform Vancouver into a ‘world-class,’ competitive global-city. This …
By Andrew Crosby — March 22nd, 2008
Examining the notion of internal sovereign power in relation to the liberal democratic state and the contestation of public space.
By Ray Silvius and Neil Burron — March 22nd, 2008
Historical materialist scholarship has, from the time of Marx, reflected the manner in which economics transcends national borders. Bastian van Apeldoorn (2004: 143) encapsulates this sentiment, writing that “the world of international relations has from the start been inextricably bound up with the expanding capitalist …
By Cultural Shifts and Eliot Che — March 18th, 2008
Comments on the first panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.
By Jim Dooley — March 18th, 2008
Is the music industry changing to the great extent that we all read about? Alternatively, is it fair to say that industry monopolies and forms of cooption are persisting as they always have? These seem to be the two poles in an ongoing debate. My …
By mejuan — March 18th, 2008
The more things change, the more things stay the same. “Chicks” and adrenaline sport. Carving up the bull slowly, like chopping down a tree. A modern-day fairy tale about Satan’s game, told in eleven images.
By Armagan Teke — February 17th, 2008
Primitive accumulation - a concept Marx previously used for addressing the initial inhumane stage of capitalism at which both the expropriation of the producers from the means of production and transformation of them into wage-labourers took place - has long been an absent reference point …
By D. T. Cochrane — January 28th, 2008
Although it has been met with stiff resistance in its efforts to offer banking services in the US, Wal-Mart has succeeded in opening a bank in Mexico. It plans to open 80 more by the end of 2008. Located within their …
By Eliot Che — January 27th, 2008
There is a short animated documentary called Money as Debt worth checking out. The video, which goes through a brief history of monetary and banking systems, raises a number of questions that relate to the US subprime crisis, not to mention the global financial …
By mejuan — January 23rd, 2008
Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey: A critique by artist Mark Vallen.
The link above, in my opinion holds some powerful ideas that defeat any carcass counter debate to try to salvage the great ICON, Sheppard Fairey’s OBEY GIANT “reputation”.
Perhaps Obey’s humble beginnings with his sticker street …
By Matthew Lymburner — January 13th, 2008
Listening to Gerald Frug talk about the concept of rule of law in relation to cities reminded me just how manipulative elites can be. Frug, a distinguished Harvard law professor, is concerned with the deconstruction of the idea of the rule of law as it …
By Anna Torgerson — November 30th, 2007
Fair trade is a response to the instability of international commodity markets and to problems of monocultural production.
