Posts Tagged ‘technology’
By Eliot Che — April 1st, 2008
What do virtual worlds mean for governance, production and identity? What is the relationship between these new spaces and contemporary capitalism? In this paper, I explore some of the political-economic implications of technological transformation and reflect on the social effects of producing, communicating and existing …
By Elizabeth Record — March 18th, 2008
Looking at the changing interactions between the organic and inanimate constructions of capitalism.
By Blayne Haggart — March 18th, 2008
Regional integration is a political process, embedded in a network of domestic, global and regional treaties, institutions, organizations and politics. Copyright policy provides an ideal lens through which to examine the distinctive development of North American integration. Like regional integration, copyright policy, which is moving …
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 Cultural Shifts — March 5th, 2008
Looking at some of the issues behind the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey results.
By Matthew Lymburner — February 11th, 2008
Some political scientists and psychologists believe that there is a close relationship between the politics that we practice and our genetic makeup. While not entirely disregarding the “non-natural” world in the formation of our political values, they posit that genes may play an important …
By Matthew Lymburner — January 18th, 2008
Despite differing conceptions on what this might actually mean, we are living in a global world. The system of nation states remains intact - and with it, nationalist sentiment from Argentina to Yemen, and everywhere in between - but it is …
By Cultural Shifts — January 4th, 2008
Saul Williams’ most recent album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust, has been released online in a high-bitrate mp3 format, giving consumers the choice of downloading the album for free, or paying 5$ for it. Which would you …
By mejuan — December 10th, 2007
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By Peru — December 6th, 2007
By Cultural Shifts — December 1st, 2007
Courtesy of OSDir
Richard Stallman is one of the founders of the Free Software Movement and lead developer of the GNU Operating System. His book is ‘Free Software, Free Society’.
JP: Can you first of all explain the “Free Software Movement’.
RMS: The basic idea of …
By Archie Techne — November 29th, 2007
Looks like the Million Book Project has just launched. Through an international effort between universities in the US, China, India and Egypt, some 1.5 million books have been digitized and made available online for free. A recent article quotes one of the project …
By Peru — November 28th, 2007
Hate Work (Left)
Man’s tragic flaw has led this beautiful planet towards self destruction (initially he was not supposed to reach the dollar but age stretched the rubber band and i dont have the heart to take it away from him now, …
By Cultural Shifts — November 21st, 2007
Gordon Brown’s government is under intense criticism today after acknowledging that it has lost computer discs containing names, addresses, birth dates, national insurance numbers and, in some cases, banking details of nearly half the country’s population.
