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Frantz Fanon - Black Skin, White Mask

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Mask, Grover Press, 1967.
As we have seen it from his other book, The Wretched of the Earth (1961), what Fanon had pursued and hoped to build, through the struggle against colonialism or the colonizers, was “a new humanism” (p. 178). We can find its sprout from the introduction of his 1952… »

Cyber-colonialism?

Cyber-colonialism?
Latin Trade, June, 2000 by Jack Epstein
BY NOW, WE HAVE ALL HEARD OF the digital divide–the widening gap between the haves and have-flats of the Internet world.
In the United States, the Clinton administration is narrowing the gap by installing computers in schools, libraries and other public places nationwide. While Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez recently… »

Online Game: cyber-colonialism and new narratives

Are online games free from the ideology of globalism and neo-liberalism?
How the narrative structure of the games are constructed?
Who makes the games, and who consumes them?
How online game market has been grown (in Korea and the US)?
Is cyber space a new place to be colonized (by whom?) ?
Is Korea a test market for the US… »

memo: culture as commodity, commodity as culture

materiality of culture
culture industry
capitalist mode of cultural production
im(ex)porting cultural products
cultural colonialism
commodity aesthetics
role of design in culture

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