media
Death of a Walrus
Published at the beginning of 1981, shortly after his assassination, this is a text on the death of John Lennon, whose subject is not Lennon himself, but the great lamenting public.
The photo here is of Lennon as a kid.
Death of the walrus (on the death of John Lennon)
“Theory is for the critic of the audience.”
"The idea is not to comfort people ~ not to make them feel better, but to make them feel worse."
The above two quotes are from John Lennon, which the author (Harry Harris), implicitly, turns against him.
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Hoax academic articles, media meddling, and problems with 'open access' as it exists.
Some recent hoax articles are demonstrating the flaws in the control of information and particularly academic publishing. A recent hoax demonstrates that, so long as you are willing to pay, you can get anything published, even computer generated mumbo-jumbo. And if you can't pay, you either don't publish, or the company owns the product of your labour. Open access isn't as open as it seems.
Not quite as lol-worthy as the 'Sokal hoax' but certainly a nice effort is the story of a recent hoax paper submitted to, and accepted, by an open-access information science journal.
The Propaganda Model: A Retrospective - Edward S. Herman
Chomsky's co-author revisits their seminal theory of how the mass media functions several years on, and responds to criticisms of it.
In Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Noam Chomsky and I put forward a "propaganda model" as a framework for analysing and understanding how the mainstream U.S. media work and why they perform as they do (Herman and Chomsky 1988).
Politics Without Parties - The future of trade unionism?
The following report is from the National Union of Journalists Annual Delegate Conference fringe meeting 'Politics without parties - the future of trade unionism'.
The meeting took place on Thursday 3rd of April 2008 in the Ulster Peoples College in Belfast and was addressed by Donnacha DeLong (NUJ National Executive Council New Media Rep) Jason Brannigan (Organise!) and Chekov Feeney (WSM).
Projectile: The interview
Freedom newspaper caught up with a member of the collective organising Projectile, the annual anarchist film festival in Newcastle.
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Freedom: You've done two previous festivals, how do you think this one will compare?
Cyber-Marx
Cyber-Marx:
Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism
Cognitive Capital Contested
"Cognitive Capital Contested: The Class Composition of the Video and Computer Game Industry"
By Nick Dyer-Witheford
Autonomist Marxism and the Information Society
Autonomist Marxism and the Information Society
by Nick Witheford
This paper argues for the pertinence of autonomist Marxism to an era of computerised capital and postmodern culture. Broadly speaking, 'autonomist Marxism' designates that tradition of Marxism which places at its centre the self-activity of the working class - a tradition with deep historical roots and wide international diffusion.
Will the Revolution Be Televised?
I was reading a letter from an activist a few days ago about the protests around the Democratic and Republican political conventions this past Summer, and about how the media distorted and covered up everything that happened. Did you know that over 3,000 persons have been arrested since the November 30, 1999 demonstration in Seattle?
Pondering Information and Communication in Contemporary Anti-Capitalist Movements
Pondering Information and Communication in Contemporary Anti-Capitalist Movements
Steve Wright
