For those of you with a soft spot for the anthropomorphized cartoon dog surfing the Internet, Lisa Nakamura abolishes such nostalgia, and misunderstanding. Half way through Digitizing Race, she coolly declares ‘…nobody believes anymore that on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog…’.
I’ve previously written about using Wordpress (WP) as a CMS; the post was really about exploring WP as a software platform for operating an online academic Journal.
In this post, I’m going to examine WP in a little more depth.…
The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in the Iranian election protests through Twitter.
We undertook a major update for darkmatter journal. This involved upgrading wordpress software (which is used to run the journal), and installing a new look/theme Mimbo 2.
I used a live test site, to enable the other darkmatter editors to…
This book writes back the presence of South Asian youth into a rapidly expanding and exuberant music scene; and celebrates this as a dynamic expression of the experience of diaspora with an urgent political consciousness.
As the co-editor and web-admin of darkmatter, the opensource blog software platform of WordPress (WP) is used to run the journal. I’m not a proper coder, but a bit of (php, html, css) knowledge really does go a long way…
A materialist turn in the humanities and social sciences has revitalized work in feminism, science and technology studies, critical social theory and phenomenology. Nonetheless, we want to ask what’s at stake when ‘race’ is grasped from a materialist standpoint? Is…
The shambolic, illegal occupation of Iraq by Western powers has resulted in countless deaths (murder) of civilians.
The ‘war against terror’ is as much an info-war as it is one involving death and destruction.
Enter Wikipedia into the affray.…
There are many ‘web2.0′ video sharing/hosting sites these days, though YouTube (YT) reigns supreme. Now owned by Google, YT is becoming the search site for video.
However, if you’re intending to upload your own video, there are some serious restrictions…
Review of: Tejaswini Niranjana (2006) Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad. London: Duke University Press.
Review can be read at anti-babel. (Due to copyright restrictions, this article can only appear on the reviewer’s own website).
A dialogue with Ettiene Balibar, Sandro Mezzadra et al – hosted by Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP), Dept of Sociology, Goldsmiths.
Yet another post about Big Brother (BB) racism, but the last one you’ll ever need to read…
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The interior and exterior space of the writer is blown up in Giancarlo Neri’s 30ft table and chair made from six tons of steel, plated with wood and painted brown.[1] Placed deliberately in Hampstead Heath (London, UK) in 2005,…
The banality of the UK Celebrity Big Brother (CBB) reality television show prepared no one for the global media spectacle of the fracas between the b-list Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty and the d(?)-list British super-ignoramus Jade Goody.[1] To debate whether…
If you surf the net you’ll eventually come across the buzz over the one laptop per child initiative. Simply put, it’s a scheme to make very low cost, open-source software based wireless laptops available to the children of the…
There are many glib pronouncements that we have entered into a ‘Big Brother State’. Rather then think of surveillance as a panopticon of disciplinary enclosure, it has penetrated the mobilities of everyday life – what Deleuze has named as societies…
Is ‘adopting’ a ‘Third World’ baby the ultimate charitable act for white western superstar celebrities?
Madonna’s acquisition of a baby from Malawi appears to pale into insignificance in comparison to the enthusiasm of actress Angelina Jolie. She has adopted babies…
Professor Stuart Hall presented a discussion about globalization at the Centre for Cultural Studies (CSS, Goldsmiths, London University) event Cartographies of Power (1 Oct 2003).
Update: for a more developed reading of East is East, see my book Multicultural Encounters (2006: ch. 6)
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East is East has been hailed the British comedy hit of 1999. If the media response is anything…
If you missed the BBC series Power of Nightmares (broadcast Jan 2005) about the relationship between USA Neo-Conservatives and ‘Radical Islam’, all three episodes are available for online viewing at the archive.org
