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Long last!
I just found this and I am thrilled:
http://www.communicationhistory.org/index.html
Finally, folks who study the history of the idea of communication. Yay (Standing on my head)! This ICA interest group has been around since 2007. I discovered it today. So this is going to be my second favorite communication group along with this one:
http://www.ashr.org/
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Long last
Today I have begun working on my dissertation after a long time. This post will hold me accountable. Since the last post I have realized the following about my dissertation:
1. That modalities is a key concept in this project. Many people have struggled with it. The two organizational folks that immediately [...]
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Charles Tilly is dead
I found out through an email sent by the Contentious Politics folks at Columbia:
“Dear friends, It is with utmost feelings of great loss to inform you that Chuck has passed this morning. We are still awaiting official announcements from his family and the Columbia community. However, I wanted to let you know that some of [...]
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So, I’ve been thinking of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. The best parts about the imagination sounded like Foucault’s Of Other Spaces. I’ve also been reading Deleuze & Guattari. My point is that they are all similar though D&G stand out. I don’t know how quite yet.
The problem with all poststructuralist accoutns of [...]
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Exemplary Communication Texts
Most of the work of Conquergood
de Certeau, The Practice of everyday Life
Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Scott, Weapons of the Weak
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Note to self
I keep forgetting about this James C. Scott in Domination and the Arts of Resistance has made a case of how resistance involved turning over/penetrating (yuck!) the public transcripts. Maybe, some kind of a marriage between the ideas of Scott and de Certeau would help me think through this.
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