I’ll be presenting at the 10th annual Critical Themes in Media Studies conference at the New School on April 17th. As you’ll see, I’m working with ideas from Benedict Anderson, Jean Baudrillard, Arjun Appadurai, Bernadette Wegenstein (who is coincidentally our closing keynote speaker), Manfred Steger, and a few more like Maurice Agulhon and Pierre Nora [...]
Posted on April 4th, 2010 by DeepthiW
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In 2005, the Center for Strategic and International Studies published a report looking at information and communication technologies (ICT) and national identity politics. The research was initiated by the National Intelligence Council, a think tank within the US government. Written by Sandra Braman, a Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the report aims [...]
Posted on April 3rd, 2010 by DeepthiW
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It has been argued that M.I.A., the London-born Sri Lankan Tamil rapper, should not have to explain why her art contains references to the internationally known terrorist organization familiarly known as the Tamil Tigers. But in a recent interview, M.I.A. called the civil war in Sri Lanka a genocide and compared its history of ethnic [...]
Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by DeepthiW
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There was an interesting post on Sociological Images (introduced to me by Katharine) about the “Slumdog Shooting technique.” I responded to it because I feel rather strongly that the postcolonial response to imperialist representations in modern media has taken a hypersensitized and cynical turn with the critical response to Slumdog Millionaire which originated the term [...]
Posted on November 21st, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Yes, it is the rather pitiful truth that after swearing off doing mass amounts of free labor post two internships and countless other volunteer projects, the project that broke down my resolve to never again work for free was a labor conference. Every free moment I’ve had for the past month has been consumed by [...]
Posted on November 15th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Starting at the Cité de l’Immigration and moving on to the Musée du Quai Branly provides a route to understanding how the role of “primitive” art in France has changed over the past couple of decades. Originally the Musée des Arts Africains et Océaniens (and where much of the collection for the new Musée du [...]
Posted on July 11th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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I’ve only really just encountered the term “decolonization.” Wikipedia says it refers to “the undoing of colonization” or “the achievement of independence by the various Western colonies and protectorates in Asia and Africa following World War II.” I’ve read a lot of post-colonial literature, and to me, decolonization is a fondly conceived dream which most [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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President Obama gave the order, and Stephen Colbert obeyed: Two years, I would never have imagined so many of the even remotely progressive things that have happened in America this year! That we can have an intelligent president, not just an intelligent comedian, is a remarkable thing. Still walking on air, politically speaking, and not [...]
Posted on June 8th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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The New York Times has a set of blogs with commenting enabled, with some having a limited time window for response, and some unlimited. I often read posts, and for the first time, was prompted to respond to this one this week. It was, for the most part, an interesting response by Robert Mackey to [...]
Posted on May 17th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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What exactly is clean coal? The term refers to coal produced by new technologies for capturing and sequestering coal by-products that reduces the harmful impacts of coal on the environment. Does clean coal exist? No. The emerging technologies referred to have not moved from concept to reality, despite billions of dollars of investment since 2001 [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2009 by DeepthiW
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