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[conference] Manufacturing Happiness

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WILL THE CAT ABOVE THE PRECIPICE FALL DOWN? - by Zizek

[The following is a guest post from Slavoj Žižek sent to us by Ali Alizadeh who writes, "Apparently the mainstream media has not shown interest in publishing it. Hope that the blogsphere can counteract their tendency." The piece is copy-right free and you should feel free to republish this on your own blog.]
When an authoritarian regime… »

The end of an era passes with Roh

[Column] The end of an era passes with Roh
Kim Sang-bong, Professor of Philosophy, Chonnam National University
When I first heard the news that he had thrown himself off a cliff in the mountains behind the village, I knew that an era had come to end. Former President Roh represented our era. No one else but him… »

marxist literary criticsm field list

by Myka Abramson for MLG-ICS list
Foundational Texts
Cesaire, Aime. Discourse on Colonialism. Monthly Review, 1996.
Engels, Fredrich Origin of the Family, Private Property, and State UK: Resistance Books, 2004
“The Great Towns” The Condition of the Working-Class. US: Penguin Books, 1987. (1887)
Fanon, Frantz. Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Charles Lam Markmann. New York: Grove Press, 1967.
Luxemburg, Rosa “The Problem… »

The Crisis of Credit Visualized

The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis
[part 1]

[part 2]

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http://www.crisisofcredit.com/
The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis work in theMedia Design Program, a graduate studio at… »

S. Korea’s bulldozer buries media dissent

http://blogs.newamericamedia.org/nam-round-table/1542/s-koreas-bulldozer-buries-media-dissent

posted on jan 08, 2009 06:59:04 pm by peter schurmann
[ filed under: asia  media ]

South Korean authorities arrested an unemployed man on Wednesday suspected of being the author of a series of online postings critical of the government’s economic policy.
The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office arrested the 31-year-old identified by his surname Park on Wednesday and is conducting… »

Where’s the Academic Outrage Over the Bombing of a University in Gaza?

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December 31, 2008
Targeting Islamic University
Where’s the Academic Outrage Over the Bombing of a University in Gaza?
By NEVE GORDON and JEFF HALPER
Not one of the nearly 450 presidents of American colleges and
universities who prominently denounced an effort by British academics
to boycott Israeli universities in September 2007 have raised their
voice in… »

Real cash for virtual goods

By David Becker
http://www.news.com/Real-cash-for-virtual-goods/2100-1043_3-5566704.html
Story last modified Tue Feb 08 05:33:53 PST 2005
As far as real estate transactions go, there was nothing obviously freaky about David Storey’s December purchase.
A total of $26,500 for a piece of undeveloped land in an unpopulated but potentially prosperous new suburb–what’s not to like? Except that the property exists solely on the… »

Virtual gaming’s elusive exchange rates

By Daniel Terdiman
http://www.news.com/Virtual-gamings-elusive-exchange-rates/2100-1043_3-5820137.html
Story last modified Fri Aug 05 09:13:56 PDT 2005
In the world of online fantasy games, you can always buy more virtual assets if you’ve got a real-life credit card.
If you happen to find yourself short of fantasy gold pieces for the purchase of that battle hammer in the game “World of Warcraft,” for… »

Who governs virtual worlds?

By Daniel Terdiman
http://www.news.com/Who-governs-virtual-worlds/2100-1043_3-6140249.html
Story last modified Mon Dec 04 06:47:56 PST 2006
NEW YORK–Who governs virtual worlds?
As games like World of Warcraft, Second Life and EverQuest grow and develop more sophisticated communities, that question will become more and more important. So much so that a group of experts appearing Friday at the fourth annual State of Play/Terra… »