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This is link to a paper I gave at a conference Design and Social Activism in Barcelona this summer, I thought it would interest people here. It draws on the fantastic theories of communcation that Mikhail Bakhtin and Valentin Volosinov ...

A personal reflection and some photos of the first few days of Oddstream. Much more soon...

http://lokidesign.net/2356/2011/06/oddstream/

I just received this through email. It's very much worth posting here. This is a reaction on the strong process of blind marketization of European Universities.
Instead of nurturing universities a places of emancipatory, critical, innovative, original thought, they ...

I found this article http://mediaecologiesresonate.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/biopower-and-marketing/#respond very interesting. Its opening new perspective - biopolitical focus: govermen-tability, biopower, potentiality, population .. - to start thinking about media/marketing approaches.

Theory ** Can BE USeful


http://www.howtodothingsbytheory.info/

WHY CRITICAL wrITING/ WHY Theory? Poglej/Take a Look/Pogledaj: Art SABotage http://www.republicart.net/disc/artsabotage/index.htm
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Zakaj je danes premalo teoretske produkcije? // criTICal READING/ CritICal THinkiNG/ CRitiCal WritinG / CRITICAL arT // Kritična TeoRIJSKa produkcija i mapiranje alternativnih ...

The a-synchronicity of electronic mail to a complete stranger strips out all requirement of social obligation and, in turn, relies only on content to motivate the receiver in their response. In other words, when using text based communication -- with a ...