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Sources Experts & SpokespersonsNews ReleasesConnexions Archive seeks a new home2009-11-18 Connexions Information Sharing Services The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home. Sources Select ResourcesAll cultures are not equalMalik, Kenan Article 2002 A common thread binds contemporary Western radicalism and fundamentalist Islam. On the surface the two seem poles apart: fundamentalists loathe Western decadence, Western radicals fear Islamic presump... The Book-of-the-Millennium ClubMacdonald, Dwight Article 1952 For $249.50, which is (for all practical purposes) $250, one could buy, in 1952, a hundred pounds of Great Books: four hundred and forty-three works by seventy-six authors, ranging chronologically and... Connexions Library: Arts, Media, Culture FocusWebsite Connexions Information Sharing Services Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on media, culture, and art. Django Unchained, or, The Help: How "Cultural Politics" Is Worse Than No Politics at All, and Why Reed, Adolph Jr. Article 2013 NonSite On reflection, it's possible to see that Django Unchained and The Help are basically different versions of the same movie. Both dissolve political economy and social relations into individual quests a... Ignorance and Courage in the Age of Lady GagaBageant, Joe Article 2010 CounterPunch It can be safely said that cultural ignorance consists of the rational, sensible questions that never get asked. But it also includes the weird ones that are. For instance, one of the questions asked ... Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?Sources News Release Article 2012 Connexions Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you. Multiculturalism or World Culture?On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown Goldner, Loren Article 1991 Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the valu... Postmodernism: Paralysed by postmodernismKitching, Gavin Article 2008 The Australian A great deal of "theory" in the humanities and social sciences -- and not just postmodern theory -- involves the creating of a kind of conceptual landscape filled with curious kinds of abstract object... Edward Said's shadowy legacyTricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts: but, thirty years on, Said still dominates debate Irwin, Robert Article 2008 Times Literary Supplement So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) to be true. It discourages any kind of critical approach to Islam in Middle Eastern studies. Sources BookshelfAll That Is Solid Melts Into AirThe Experience of Modernity Berman, Marshall Book 1982 Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical ide... Communicating in Canada's PastEssays in Media History Allen, Gene; Robinson, Daniel J. (eds.) Book 2009 Address sizable gaps in the literature on media history in Canada. Includes a substantial introduction to media history as a field of study and essays on a range of subjects, including print journalis... Culture of ComplaintThe Fraying of America Hughes, Robert Book 1993 Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasan... Dialogues on Cultural StudiesInterviews with Contemporary Critics edited by Xie, Shaobo; Wang, Fengzhen Book 2002 Thirty-three questions were asked (but not necessarily answered) of each participant, dealing with cultural studies, modernity, postmodernism, referentiality, ideology and history, post-colonialism, n... Manufacturing ConsentThe Political Economy of the Mass Media Herman, Edward S.; Chomsky, Noam Book 1988 Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets... Other ConundrumsRace, Culture, and Canadian Art Gagnon, Mokia Kin Book 2000 A collection of essays on Canadian art. Telling the TruthSocialist Register 2006 Panitch, Leo; Keys, Colin (eds.) Book 2005 A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life. The Unfashionable Human BodyRudolfsky, Bernard Book 1973 A discussion of apparel, in the broadest sense of the word, and how it has reflected and shaped attitudes to the human body.
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