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Archive for the ‘Cultural Studies’ Category

Twilight of the Books

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

What will life be like if people stop reading?

by Caleb Crain from the New Yorker

Book: Perception, Technology, and Life-Worlds / Free chapters

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

The Japanese philosopher of technology, Dr. Junichi Murata has written a book

called Perception, Technology, and Life-Worlds

published in 2007 with chapters on Consciousness and the Mind-Body

Problem, Perception and Action, The Multi-Dimensionality of Colors, Why is

Technology a Fundamental Problem of Philosophy?, Technology and Life-Worlds,

Creativity of Technology, Pragmatism and the Ethics of Technology, and From

Challenger to Columbia.

The entire contents of the book can be found at:

Link

Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

“The exhibition “Let Your Motto Be Resistance” consists of 100 photographic portraits of prominent African Americans. The portraits were selected from the collections of the National Portrait Gallery as part of the inaugural exhibition of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture.”

Smithsonian Institute

ICT and Social Justice: Educational technology, global capital and digital divides

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Underwood, J. D. M. (2007). Rethinking the Digital Divide: impacts on studenttutor

relationships. European Journal of Education, 27(2), 213.222.

This paper presents a Marxist analysis of the current function and role of information and communication technology (ICT) in education, with specific reference to schooling in the UK.

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The banality of blogging or how does the web affect the public-private dichotomy

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

“Is blogging the means by which the ‘feminine’ voices previously excluded from public discourse and kept hidden in the ‘private’ sphere, can now be released? Is blogging a means of affirming the public character of private practices, ask Kambouri and Hatzopoulos.”

http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=165

Tillie Olsen, Feminist Writer Widely Taught in Colleges, Dies at 94

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

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Judith Butler on Jacques Derrida

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

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Web Site on African-American Migration

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm

Web site focuses on African-American migration over the past 400 years.