Archive: The Gnovis Blog
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Book Review – "Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software Movement"
Is open source software provocative to capitalism because it is free,
or because it is authored in a way that subverts the
labor-wage-consumption relations that are so central to Post-Fordist
capitalism?This is the central question taken up in "Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software Movement" (Routledge, 2008) by Johan Soderberg .
He comes down on the side of the latter, arguing specifically that the
hacker movement has replaced the increasingly ineffective labor
struggle with a new form of struggle: play struggle. "Resistance has
here become a game" (183).Category: The Gnovis Blog
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Blog wrap up: Blogging on Technology, Authenticity and Affect
on gnovis…
On Gnovis, around CCT, and in the wider blogoshere, people are
discussing the increasingly convoluted relationship between Technology,
Authenticity and Affect. What technologies produce the most ‘authentic’
communication, memories, experiences? Why are we often nostalgic for
older technologies? See how these blogs collectively create a really interesting discussion of these questions.Category: The Gnovis Blog
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Polaroids and Nostaliga
It does seem like I’m always coming around here to tell you about things I’m really interested in, but haven’t quite worked through all the implications. Sorry about that. It does seem like that is what blogging is for, so I hope you’ll stay with me as I’m working through all these things.
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Art and Politics events: Featuring, Moonwalking Jesus, Andrea the Giant, Obama, and Fully Loaded Churches
This weekend, I was lucky enough to attend a couple of great events that shared a common theme: art as a political force.
First, I’d briefly like to promote Georgetown’s Performing Art’s performance of
“…and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi”.Category: The Gnovis Blog
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It's not you, it's the interface.
Talking on the phone with my sister several weeks ago, she began enumerating the reasons she shouldn’t join Facebook. This was hardly necessary. I am fairly certain that the mother of three young kids has very little time for updating her Facebook status or playing Photo Hunt . Still, I tried to play along:
"You could upload pictures of your kids," I offered weakly. Little did I realized I had hit the issue squarely on the head.
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Weekly Roundup: Blog Picks for October 17, 2008
This week, the place of politics
• Stanley Fish, at the New York Times, tries to sort out recent university memos barring professors from wearing campaign buttons, attending campus political rallies, and even placing political bumper stickers on their cars. After discussing several worthy (and not so worthy view points), he concludes that it’s contextual: “It’s a policy matter, not a moral or philosophical matter, and as long as the policy is reasonably related to the institution’s purposes, it raises no constitutional issues at all.”Category: The Gnovis Blog
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Choice of Digital Communication Space in Academia
We’ve all had the experience of walking into a room full of people and having every single person look up and stare at us. Most of us taking CCT courses this semester have also had the experience of pushing the publish button, knowing that in a few seconds, some number of people will be reading (and necessarily, judging) our blog post. Both are intimidating, even in the most casual or intimate of circumstances.Category: The Gnovis Blog
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Facebook and Friends: What your network says about you
Dear Facebook. We need to talk.
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Weekly Roundup: Blog Picks for October 10, 2008
This week at gnovis, we saw two posts about the distinction between women candidates and women’s issues in the 2008 election. Akoto kicked things off by asking if the Palin pick is two steps forward and one step back, or just one step back: "her nomination is arguably the embodiment of sexism."
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Seen but not Heard: Women's issues in politics
Akoto posted earlier today on the the many breakthroughs in this election cycle, the role of the media in vetting Sarah Palin, and offers a feminist reading of her candidacy. In this post, I’m more interested in the effect – or lack thereof – of these breakthroughs on the role of women’s issues in the campaigns and debates.
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