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News
'The Politics of Consumption' conference organised by the ephemera editorial collective took place in Dublin on 9-11 May 2012.
You can watch the discussion of the Politics of Consumption in Ireland as well as Kate Soper's keynote presentation below, or on CMSorg's youtube channel. Within the website, information about the conference (including the conference programme and the videos) is available here.
Roundtable participants: Kieran Allen, Deirdre Greaney, Paddy Dolan and Stephanie Rains.
The dialectics of progress, Irish 'belatedness' and the politics of consumption by Kate Soper.
The disappearing virtual library by Christopher Kelty, UCLA (Al Jazeera, 1 March 2012) - on closure of library.nu
Citizen Philosophers. Teaching Justice in Brazil by Carlos Fraenkel (Boston Review, Jan/Feb 2012)
As Journal Boycott Grows, Elsevier Defends its Practices by John Fischman (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 31st January 2012)
Save Scholarly Ideas, Not the Publishing Industry (a rant) by Danah Boyd (Social Media Collective, 11 December 2011)
Habermas, the last European. A philosopher's mission to save the EU by Georg Diez (Spiegel, 25 November 2011)
Campbell Jones's (University of Auckland) article Why we Need a Robin Hood tax (The New Zealand Herald, 29 October 2011)
André Spicer's (Cass Business School) article Bankers must take global protest movement seriously (Public Service Europe, 20th October 2011)
New book by Christian Fuchs, Kees Boersma, Anders Albrechtslund and Marisol Sandoval (Eds.) (2011). Internet and Surveillance: The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media, New York: Routledge
Zygmunt Bauman's article The 'Why's' and 'What for's' of People talking to the Streets (Social Europe Journal, 19 October 2011)
Protesters Against Wall Street (The New York Times, 8 October 2011)
Peers, Review Your Actions by Michael Taylor (University of Bristol) (Times Higher Education, 29 September 2011)
New book by Jonathan S. Davies (2011) Challenging governance theory. From networks to hegemony, Bristol: The Policy Press
David Harvie's (University of Leicester) and Keir Milburn's (University of Leicester) article Ed Miliband's 'quiet crisis' is down to capitalism (the Guardian, 27 September 2011)
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