… Cultural Shifts to a new server with more data capacity and processing power. You shouldn’t notice any difference in the functioning of the site (but if you do, please contact us ). The main purpose of the migration is to make the site a little more future-proof.
We’ve also been working on implementing a co-authorship capability (as you can see here). From now on, after you make a …

Author: Cultural Shifts

… in the Candela Raval Barcelona group show. Series:

Comment by Archie Techne: … like this piece. Where do you find …

Author: mejuan

Comment author: Archie Techne

… Media Research has just released their 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey results (PDF). Most of the results aren’t too surprising, but there’s a lot of information here. The results are based on interviews with 1608 respondents, and the sample was weighted to reflect the national demographics of the United Kingdom.

At the top of the list, 73% of people own digital cameras, while …

Tags: copyright, DRM, Internet, law, music, piracy, privacy, technology

… we done up the beets last week there.what a job. i warshed the counter all.what a mess. the ones we grewpickled up fine. only a few come up.too dry, or something got at them.we had to get more. the boughten beetsthey were hard as anything. bad yearfor sugar beets. see my nailsstill stained all. your aunt, the same.

Comment by Environmentalist: … name for the style of poetry you are …

Author: Pearl Pirie

Comment author: Environmentalist

… whiffle snoreslumped in chairin front of the requestedbranch-to-branch transfersthe other lady and Iour names, our booksbehind his white headone eye on not disturbinggingerly she reaches firstpast his sleep, succeedswhen away exhales, opensthe covers

Author: Pearl Pirie

… Agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet – The New Pearl Harbor
by Michael Salla *

The U.S. plans for an attack on Iran envision to sacrifice the Fifth Fleet in order to justify a nuclear retaliation. This is not a hypothetical scenario, but a real option being discussed within the U.S. Joint Chief of Staff cabinet. According to our sources, admiral William Fallon …

Author: mejuan

Tags: Iran, United States, War

… security discourse emphasizing “terrorism” has displaced the focus on the “gang epidemic” that prevailed in the latter decades of the twentieth century. However, since 2005, law enforcement agencies and media organizations have sparked a renewed interest in gangs such as Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), dubbed “the world’s most dangerous gang” by the FBI. Thus far, the few existing …

Author: Matthew Lymburner

Tags: Central America, crime, El Salvador, gangs, Mara Salvatrucha, neoliberalism, policy, transnationalism

… Economy at Carleton University is holding its 9th annual graduate studies conference this week. In coming weeks, Cultural Shifts will be posting a selection of papers from the event.
If you are in Ottawa, Canada, and would like to attend, the conference details are below. The event is open and free to the general public.

QUESTIONING BOUNDARIES: The Political Economy of Access, …

Author: Cultural Shifts

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Author: mejuan

Tags: art, graffiti

… for a Ride whose “point of view” is perfectly clear is a scenic tour of how General Motors, beginning in 1922, dismantled urban mass transit across the United States and made mobility contingent upon the gas engine. By buying up trolley systems through its shadow subsidiary, National City Lines GM systematically gutted those streetcar companies and made efficient, reliable, clean …

Comment by Concerned Individual: … “Who Killed the Electric Car” …

Author: mejuan

Comment author: Concerned Individual

Tags: car culture, documentary, public transit

… message was posted by “niggaz4ever” on fotolog.net (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
The posted item highlights the issue of Brazilian clear cutting for the production of beef.
In Spain there is little or no mention of this sort of news.
It’s 6 billion hectares!!! How can it be kept quiet?
“Revolta”
malditos comedores de carniça, essa foto mostra outra cidade de outro estado de …

Author: mejuan

Tags: brazil, clear cutting, environment

… 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 role in determining our politics by driving us towards certain “natural tendencies”. This approach, of course, …

Author: Matthew Lymburner

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Author: mejuan

Tags: art, illustration, Royal

… Royal, Barcelona.

Comment by Impersonal: … dangerous!!

Author: mejuan

Comment author: Impersonal

Tags: art, barcelona, graffiti, mural, painting, Spain

… They don’t last long.

A few months ago I took a fallen tile from the Barcelona metro. Days ago I spotted a vacant spot in this row of beautiful tiles near my home and decided to try and interact with the cool mathematics. I guess the best part of the story is that a few blocks from my place is a construction site and in one of the waste bins in the street there were empty bags …

Author: mejuan

Tags: art, counter-culture