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Own This!

A portfolio of platform cooperativism, in progress

August 12, 2018 • by Trebor Scholz

“We are own bosses. The platform co-op model can help us to grow professionally and as people.” - Up&Go Member-Owner The Economy is Not Working for Most People Platform capitalism, the economic system currently dominating the Internet, is not working for most people. Despite its initial promise as a new commons, the Internet ...

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The Social Network of Stuff

On media, logistics and supply chains

August 1, 2018 • by Kenneth Tay

This conversation with Matthew Hockenberry [1] marks the beginning of a series of dialogues on the subject of logistics. No longer a mere subject of business management schools or an exclusive expertise of the military, logistics has become a significant presence in recent scholarship, particularly in the humanities, and is now frequently ...

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CFP: Media, Technology, and Democracy in Historical Context

A Media & Democracy Workshop in New York City

July 23, 2018 • by James Kirwan

Introduction If you consult recent headlines, the news media is in crisis, and the problems are manifold: disruptive changes to media technology, the spread of misleading news, and anonymous harassment of public figures are causing serious concerns about the quality and trajectory of our democracy and the place of the news ...

CFP: Media, Technology, and Democracy in Historical Context

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Psychogeographies of the Financial Imaginary

Uncovering the tax havens hidden in plain sight through counter-financial dérive

July 13, 2018 • by Max Haiven and RYBN.ORG

An interview with RYBN.ORG Max Haiven: During our the recent Navigating the City walking tour of the City of London in April you were using the Offshore Tour Operator, an open-source device you developed as part of your The Great Offshore project which seeks to make sense of the complex web of physical and virtual offshore ...

Psychogeographies of the Financial Imaginary

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Psychoanalysis and Cyberspace

Shifting Frames and Floating Bodies

July 2, 2018 • by Luca Caldironi

Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis: Its Function and Structure in Contemporary Psychoanalytic theory, edited by Isaac Tylim and Adrienne Harris, explores, and troubles, the idea of "the frame" at a time when the concept is undergoing both a systematic recrudescence and widespread transformation within psychoanalytic theory. It has always ...

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The History of Virtualizing Touch

From electricity to vibration, haptic technology is changing the relationship between touch and media

June 14, 2018 • by Allie Mularoni

From corrective lenses to virtual simulation, humans have long pursued the mediation of the senses in an effort to maximize their visual, auditory, and haptic capacities. The skin’s overlapping roles as both an organ capable of feeling its own right, as well as the structure responsible for holding all of ...

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Creativity

In /and /as the University

June 12, 2018 • by Nicholas Gamso

Every day brings more talk about the role of “creativity” in shaping urban futures. Most of such talk consists of paeans to personal and social development through art and design, technology, healthcare, and higher education. The University of the Arts in Philadelphia has even produced a graduate program to study creativity. ...

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The Election of Donald Trump and the Great Disruption in the News and Social Media

Pablo J. Boczkowski and Zizi Papacharissi’s introduction to Trump and the Media

June 5, 2018 • by Pablo J. Boczkowski and Zizi Papacharissi

Donald Trump's election as the 45th President of the United States came as something of a surprise -- to many analysts, journalists, and voters. The New York Times’s The Upshot gave Hillary Clinton an 85 percent chance of winning the White House even as the returns began to come in. What ...

The Election of Donald Trump and the Great Disruption in the News and Social Media

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Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

An excerpt from Judy Wajcman’s latest book

May 31, 2018 • by Judy Wajcman

There is a widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be, and smartphones and the Internet are continually being blamed. In Pressed for Time, Judy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. She argues that we are not mere ...

Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

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Bodies in Transition

Derailing gender in the liminal space of breast cancer treatment

May 24, 2018 • by Tara Mastrelli

According to political historian and gender theorist Paul Preciado, we are living in the pharmacapornagraphic era. In this era, claims his book Testo Junkie, gender is produced through the body’s constant interaction with images, imagery, and social norms that represent a naturalized sex ideal, and through technological and pharmeucuetical interventions. There is ...

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The Future of Our Past

Digital archives and the democratization of knowledge

May 18, 2018 • by Sharon Ringel

Usually, when I tell my students that our course will focus on archives, they almost fall asleep in front of me. In fact, it seems that the mere mention of the word “archive” triggers a yawning reflex. People imagine the archive as a far, distant, dark and dusty space, where ...