For today:
- Thomas Misa, excerpt on modernity & technology (with highlighted passages).
- Theory Toolbox, Chapter 9 (I will review the material on Post-Colonialism and Orientalism from Week 9 when we discuss the content in the Theory Toolbox).
- Allen McDuffee, "Brewing Globalization with a local flavor," Pop Politics, Oct 2007. Note: The archives on Pop Politics were recently password protected, so the link I'm providing is a re-post (same content...just not as pretty to look at).
- REMINDER: Be sure to be thinking about or working on your CASE STUDY PAPER. It's due by the last day of class.
- Guide: Some notes on post/modernism and post/modernity.
- Guide: Stuart Hall, "What is Modern?" from Formations of Modernity.
- Guide: Professor Ron Strickland's PowerPoint presentations on modernity & postmodernity...I will be using them in class. Click HERE to access them.
- Guide: 'Globalization' from Keywords in American Cultural Studies
- Guide: What is Globalization? (an outline of trends)
- Guide: "Globalization," in the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
For further reading & research:
- Excerpt from Lindy Biggs, The Rational Factory (Johns Hopkins Press, 2002).
- Douglas Kellner (with Richard Kahn), "Resisting Globalization."
- McDonalds, Starbucks and corporate globalization (a map)
- Sarah Burdacki, "Strategy, Tactics, and Solidarity: The Anti-Globalization Movement and Its Discontents," Bad Subjects #65, 2004.
- Saskia Sassen, "Globalization or denationalization?," Review of International Political Economy, Feb 2003, Vol. 10, Issue 1, pp. 1-22.
- David Nye, an overview of the concept/term 'Technology'
- Thomas J. Misa "The Compelling Tangle of Modernity and Technology," in Modernity and Technology, edited by Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey, and Andrew Feenberg, pp. 1-30.
- Modernism as the (re)organization & transformation of work
- Modernism and technology
- Raymond Williams, "Metropolitan Perceptions and the Emergence of Modernism."
- Raymond Williams, "When Was Modernism?," New Left Review, Issue #175, May-June 1989, pp. 48-52.
- Scott Thill, "5 Ways Techno-Gadgetry is Bringing Out the Worst in Humanity," AlterNet, February 2, 2010.
