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New Demos report on participatory culture
Via Tama’s del.icio.us , a new Demos report: Logging On: Culture, Participation and the Web In the brief history of the internet, the cultural sector has followed two related paths: on the one hand, the digitisation of content and provision of information and, on the other, interactivity and opportunities for expression. Some have seen these…
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readings in cultural citizenship and popular culture
A couple of things I’ve read this morning: In a special issue of IJCS on ‘The New Economy, Creativity and Consumption’ William Uricchio compares the relationships between creativity (mainly viewed as work within or work that benefits the ‘creative industries’) and cultural citizenship in the US and Europe: Creative activity – and, by implication, the…
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Mica Nava on ‘vernacular cosmopolitanism’
In the special issue of Theory, Culture & Society on Cosmopolitanism – (19.1-2): Cosmopolitan Modernity : Everyday Imaginaries and the Register of Difference Mica Nava Debates about cosmopolitanism in the spheres of political philosophy, sociology and postcolonial criticism have on the whole ignored specific histories of the cosmopolitan imagination and its vernacular expressions in everyday…
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Deuze in conversation with Bauman, plus Cosmopolitan Cultural Citizenship and Flickr
Mark Deuze has been thinking, writing, and exchanging ideas with Zygmunt Bauman about liquid modernity, ‘community’ and the Internet, and I’ve been following along with Mark as he works through his ideas. This is the latest Bauman quote, in context here:
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post-humanism and the phonograph
I won’t even bother to pretend to rehearse the endless determinism vs. agency debate problem, but here is Nicholas Gane on Kittler on technology: Gane, Nicholas. Radical Post-humanism: Friedrich Kittler and the Primacy of Technology, Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 22, No. 3, 25-41 (2005) (citations removed for the sake of nice clean copy) Kittler…
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pragmatism, old-school
I am envious of the early pragmatists’ certainty and sense of purpose: If a theory makes no difference in educational endeavor, it must be artificial. The educational point of view enables one to envisage the philosophic problems where they arise and thrive, where they are at home, and where acceptance or rejection makes a difference…
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Forget you ever saw this post
A new book across my desk: OBLIVION Marc Aug? Translated by Marjolijn de Jager Foreword by James E. Young University of Minnesota Press | 136 pages | 2004 ISBN 0-8166-3566-8 | hardcover | $56.95 ISBN 0-8166-3567-6 | paperback | $18.95 ?Remembering or forgetting is doing gardener?s work, selecting, pruning. Memories are like plants: there are…