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°More strings and brass

June 19, 2008

I can do that - but it seems easier to point to the playlist, which is a fairly good index of what’s in the earbuds, and on repeat. Besides the mixtape posts, I mean. But just let me add this track, which requires more than one click to get to:

Nina Simone - Take care of business (Pilooski Edit)

If you’ve read this far, you’re tagged.

°meme: passion quilt

May 12, 2008

Michael Christie, of Eurhythmania, passes on the passion quilt baton. This being: Post a picture or make/take/create your own that captures what YOU are most passionate for students to learn about. Give your picture a short title. Title your blog post “Meme: Passion Quilt.” Link back to the blog entry which tagged you. Include links to 5 (or more) educators.

In Excess of Measure

Filed under: Sense + Memes
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°Prec@ria

January 2, 2008

If Lauren Berlant’s piece explored precariousness as an intimate meshing of affect and labour around normativity in the films La Promesse and Rosetta, Laura Fantone’s “Precarious changes: Gender and Generational Politics in Contemporary Italy” (Feminist Review, 87, 2007) gives a thorough account of the precario debates within Italy as they turn around the questions of difference (of citizenship, gender and generation).

Filed under: Precarious precarity + Memes
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°On uncertain memes

April 26, 2007

Here’s a few things worth reading: an interview with Sergio Bologna, on freelance work, and what he terms the propaganda around ‘knowledge workers’, among other things. Also from Springerin, an interview with Paolo Virno, on ‘immaterial labour’, postfordism, etc. And in MetaMute, Stewart Home on Copenhagen, the ‘creative class’ and demoradical Europa.

Filed under: Precarious precarity + Memes + Reading + Virno
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°The Machine is Us/ing Us

February 6, 2007

Apropos the machine … a somewhat utopic take.

Filed under: Laboratories + Memes
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°web2.0

February 1, 2007

the rise of ‘Web 2.0’ (itself a corporate logo of sorts) has precipitated a new culture war between proponents of ‘democratising’ mass amateur media and defenders of professionalism and expert research. Outside of this self-mirroring dichotomy, however, things are more complicated. - Josephine Berry-Slater, editorial.

And it’s these complications that the new edition of Mute, “Web 2.0: Man’s Best Friendster?”, seeks to emphasise, beyond the memedome of much of web2.0 discussion. Dmytri Kleiner and Brian Wyrick on the centralisation that has accompanied the rise of the web2.0 logo. Olga Guriunova on platforms and creativity. Brian Ashton’s “Factory Without Walls.” My piece, “The Social SoftWar” on social net-working, technology, democracy and the rights of labour. And more. All are here as a complete pdf, 4.61mb.