Why is that when we describe decentralized actions we automatically assume an altruistic and apolitical relationship between the participants? Why is that we are afraid to understand and point out ideological views involved in the recent disruption started by the…
A few thoughts on culture industry
Social Control Communication theorists and advertiser experts (Lazarsfield & Merton, 1969; Schramm, 1954) explain mass communication effect based on consumers’ needs, and for that reason, culture was accepted with so little resistance. This produces a positive feedback, a circle of…
Digitization and Globalization of Informality
I am still amazed that people would think about informal job, or informal life, as something inherent to poor people, especially those not living in the so-called developed countries. For the majority of people, informality is something bad, unsafe, dangerous.…
Locke on property lockdown
Locke discusses and defends the origins of the private property as a universal natural law. His corollary is that every man has a property in his own person: “this nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his…
Capital, land, expropriation
Marx relates the expropriation of the agricultural population from land to the beginning of the capitalist process. In this process free farmers were removed from their areas, where they helped each other and cultivated their own food, to become proletariat…
A Collaborative Mobile Cultural Mapping Workshop & Exhibition at ISEA 2015
Today I attend A Collaborative Mobile Cultural Mapping Workshop & Exhibition at ISEA 2015 The workshop started with the participants introducing themselves and briefly talked about their own research interests. Next, Dr. Martha Ladly took over to give a quick…