Posts Tagged: globalization

Eugene Thacker – The Global Genome

Eugene Thacker. The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture. The MIT Press, 2005. Although the main object of Thacker’s The Global Genome is biology (and body itself), the context in which he deals with the object throughout the book is

Eugene Thacker – The Global Genome

Eugene Thacker. The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture. The MIT Press, 2005. Although the main object of Thacker’s The Global Genome is biology (and body itself), the context in which he deals with the object throughout the book is

David Harvey – Spaces of Hope

David Harvey, Spaces of Hope, U of California Press, 2000. We have dealt with the body (subjectivity and citizenship) as something to be captured and marked up in the network of diverse forces on the social surface as well as

David Harvey – Spaces of Hope

David Harvey, Spaces of Hope, U of California Press, 2000. We have dealt with the body (subjectivity and citizenship) as something to be captured and marked up in the network of diverse forces on the social surface as well as

The Long and Winding Road: From Road and Rail to Information Superhighway

      What can we draw as common issues from Armand Mattelart’s Networking the World:1794-2000 and John Thompson’s “The Media and Modernity” and “The Globalization of Communication”? At first glance, they seem to deal with the history of globalized communication

The Long and Winding Road: From Road and Rail to Information Superhighway

      What can we draw as common issues from Armand Mattelart’s Networking the World:1794-2000 and John Thompson’s “The Media and Modernity” and “The Globalization of Communication”? At first glance, they seem to deal with the history of globalized communication

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Anna L. Tsing – Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection

Anna L. Tsing, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005 Why “friction”? Before reading the text, it is not sure whether friction is good or not—if good, good for what? We have known by now that what

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Anna L. Tsing – Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection

Anna L. Tsing, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005 Why “friction”? Before reading the text, it is not sure whether friction is good or not—if good, good for what? We have known by now that what