Colleagues and I just completed reading Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. We had all been seeing scads of references to this book and were quite keen on reading it. However, we were all rather underwhelmed by Hardt & Negri’s account of the emergent possibilities...
If, as Raymond Williams suggested, a culture is a “whole way of life,” then it follows that a subculture is a partial way of life. That is, subcultural participation implies a set of value orientations and practices that are neither coterminous with the entirety of a given population nor exhaustive of any one individual’s...
The productivist bias inherent in both classical economics and orthodox Marxism has delayed the recognition of the ‘consumer revolution’ that accompanied the industrial one and has come, over the course of the last century, increasingly to drive the transformation of capital. Today, however, the consumption of commodities has entangled itself with almost every facet...
I decided it was time I got myself a new web site, so here it is. I have yet to decide how bloggy/personal versus c.v./professional it will be, but, in all likelihood, infrequent posting will make that decision for me. In any case, this site replaces the defunct borealism.com and nom de plume, so...