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Marxism and New Media Conference: This Week at Duke, Thursday through Saturday!

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Jan 172012

The Marxism and New Media Conference organized by graduate students in Duke's Program in Literature is here! The conference will take place this Thursday, January 19, through Saturday, January 21. A wide variety of events will take place over the three very full days of the conference, including the U.S.

Marxism and New Media Conference: This Week at Duke, Thursday through Saturday!

Jan 172012

Update on "Marxism and New Media" Conference at Duke, Jan. 19-21, 2012

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Dec 192011

There'll be much more information on this in the new year, but for now here's the preliminary schedule for the Marxism and New Media conference happening at Duke on January 19-21 (sponsored by, among others, HASTAC). If you're interested in attending, please register and join the mailing list; no registration fee will be charged.

The End of SOPA?

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Dec 172011

Being on the job market for the first time this year has required much more effort than I'd anticipated -- I've been a frankly terrible member of HASTAC as a result.

Call for Papers/Projects: Marxism and New Media Conference at Duke University, January 20 & 21, 2012

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Sep 272011

CALL FOR PAPERS / CALL FOR PROJECTS: MARXISM AND NEW MEDIA
http://literature.duke.edu/marxism-and-new-media-conference

Summer Thoughts on the Open University

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Sep 142011

I've been thinking about my first HASTAC post of the semester since early this summer, when I caught this intriguing line from Prime Minister David Cameron buried in reporting from the London riots:

One Easy Step to Avert the Collapse of Civilization

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Mar 262011

On my run this morning I listened to David Eagleman's RSA lecture which I've since discovered is also available in slightly different form from fora.tv. As my title suggests, in a sense Eagleman's prescription amounts to one easy step, the Internet, which obviates or provides remedies for all six of his key civilization-ending threats..

Everything New Is Old Again: Two Critiques of Cyber-Optimism

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Mar 112011

Two pieces separately crossed my screen today that each provide provocative challenges to the abiding sense of optimism, even triumphalism, that frequently accompanies discussion of new media technologies and their potential impact of global politics. I thought the HASTAC community might like to see these essays as well and help me think through some of their critiques...

Institutionality vs. the Blogs: Questions for HASTAC Scholars

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Jan 182011

Freddie deBoer's recent post on the dominance of neoliberalism in the progressive blogosphere -- and the attendant "blindspot" towards both socialist leftism and labor-oriented politics -- has been circulating widely on blogs and Twitter. (See, for instance, replies from targets of the criticism Matt Yglesias, Kevin Drum, and Jonathan Chait.) What interests me about this post is the way it raises the issue of institutional support, and how the myth of a free and open blogosphere, in which the dominance of particular ideas is determined solely and completely by their relative merit, is complicated by both pre-existing social and professional networks and (especially) asymmetrical institutional support...