… revolving around the state and the control over invisible boundaries serves to silence other political possibilities by securing mobility and space. The state’s securitization of space through force is testament to the efficacy of territorial strategies of power. Here, the logic of security is synonymous with spatial exclusion as the state works to (re)assert its control over spaces …

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… term, he was not even the ‘dark horse’ in the democratic party. But when that quickly changed and the delegate numbers started coming in, Clinton acted, with her characteristic sense of entitlement, as if Obama was merely a fly that would buzz itself out in a short time. As recently as Super Tuesday, she believed, or at least portrayed the belief that Obama was not a force to be reckoned …

… the game?
In your paper, you address a number of important questions: like the role of intellectual property in what Lawrence Lessig calls Free Culture; and whether online content can be monetized. I think another issue worth looking at is whether or not piracy can act as a public good. For example, linking back to Jason’s topic, Matt Mason states that India between 1970 and 2005, …

… interactions between men and machines, organic and inanimate constructions of capitalism. While sexual aides have existed for years, the nature of the RealDoll provides, arguably for the first time, the opportunity for men to entirely eschew relationships with organic women while maintaining a satisfactory sex life. These dolls do not think, feel or speak (although advances in …

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… roles of the state, business and civil society in the development of copyright policy. In doing so, it will illustrate the limits to and possibilities for regional integration, including ways in which greater democratic oversight in the regional-integration process can realistically be pursued.

… 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 presentation, drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, will suggest that the transformations currently taking place in the recording industry are much more …

… with a pleasant stroll alongside a pristine river, the banks of which are lined with families, couples and groups of friends, all relishing in their time away from urban life. There are also numerous restaurants at various spots along the river and they prove to be wonderful spots to stop and have a meal. These opening few kilometers, so tranquil and serene, are in stark contrast to the …

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… end. Words crawl up and down the flowing spines of hot and cold like kisses of wet spent love turning the viewer’s eye into a licking tongue filled with the sensual taste of raw lust set free from the constraints of consumer society where sex is endlessly sold like bland boiled potatoes to the hungry in a spiritual famine. Pass the salt, and if I could only have a little …

… In a related trend, 18% of respondents indicated that video streaming sites on the Internet has resulted in a decrease in traditional TV viewed (while 79% indicated no change).

There were also some fairly obvious results on the topic of social networks. The survey found that “social networks have the potential to become major content distribution platforms” and that “social …

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Comment by Josh Massey: … from Ohio but I’m sure I’ve …

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… in the mid-1990s. Since then, the formulations of enforcement strategies and policy responses, both in the U.S. and El Salvador, have generally assumed that MS-13 exists in a vacuum, ignoring the social and economic contexts in which the gang operates. A sustained decrease in gang activity requires a qualitative transformation in the policy prescriptions of multilateral institutions, in …

… the Diasporic Link: The Franco-Algerian Media Dialogues on the 2005 Emeutes in France
Irina Mihalache, School of Journalism and Communication
Discussant: Daniel Tubb, Political Economy

12:15-1:15PM Lunch
1:15-2:45PM From within Canada: Identity and Public Policy

Reading Global Genders: Mapping gender-based struggles in the global geographies of local marginality
Michael …

… 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 transportation a endangered species.
Directed by Jim Klein and Marcy Olson, Taken for a Ride tells a story …