Questioning the valorization of labor of "low-income" students for Sony

Submitted by nknouf on Nov 23, 2009, 03:32 PM

In our e-mail boxes this morning were no less than three messages announcing the new

Criminalizing US protesters' uses of Twitter, or, how to get your home raided by the FBI

Submitted by nknouf on Nov 05, 2009, 03:14 PM

In case you missed this news over the past month or so due to the continual onslaught of digital information, there has been a disturbing---to put it lightly---incident involving Twitter, its use b

Mining the Military-Academic-Industrial Complex in a Poetic-Serious Fashion

Submitted by nknouf on Apr 20, 2009, 11:06 PM

Sadly I was not able to attend the HASTAC conference, but I wanted to post some information about a current project of mine...

As we now hear by some commentators that the "worst" of the so-called financial "crisis" "might" be over, we have to acknowledge the difficulty of squaring

Shell Oil and the Privatization of the University

Submitted by nknouf on Oct 21, 2008, 05:39 PM

As I was walking around campus today I saw that Shell Oil was holding a recruiting event on the Engineering Quad, the "Shell Campus Pit Stop Challenge". (See images below.) Evidently this was designed as a game or entertainment, involving, in their words, a "fast-paced, pit-stop-style event w

Pouissance in Malaysia (updated II)

Submitted by nknouf on Aug 29, 2008, 06:14 PM

The power, or more precisely, pouissance, of media and the arts to respond to injustice and to those in control is well-known, even if it must be continually reaffirmed and re-created due to moves by the establishment.  Tactical responses rely on the unexpected, at least the unexpected as seen by establishment, in order to be effective.  These types of situations proliferate as cheap media technologies enter into formerly repressive situations.  An example of this is Malaysia, where I spent some time this summer.  While the nation profiles itself as a developing place, with a variety