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Time Bubbles and Tech Bubbles :: Peter Frase
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Time Bubbles and Tech Bubbles. March 18th, 2015 Published in anti-Star Trek. The new issue of Jacobin is out. It’s about technology, a longstanding preoccupation of mine, and I have the lead editorial. Check it out, along with all the other great stuff in the issue. I also wrote something for the newest issue of the New Inquiry, which is themed around “futures”. My essay is here. The above is an image from that storyline. The site’s coverage of the time bubble story can be found here. Later on, thereR...
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Writing :: Peter Frase
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This is writing I’ve published in non-academic outlets, not including my blog posts. For my academic research, see here. 8220;Hipsters, Food Stamps, and the Politics of Resentment”. 8220;The Superman Conditional”. 8220;An Imagined Community”. 8220;Four Futures”. 8220;The Politics of Getting a Life”. 8220;Modify Your Dissent”. 8220;Property And Theft”. 8220;Ours to Master”. 8220;Stop Digging: The Case Against Jobs”. 8220;Phantom Tollbooths”. 8220;The corporate titans take on the internet”. 22(2), May 2013.
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The Tragedy of the Commons in the Rentier Mind :: Peter Frase
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The Tragedy of the Commons in the Rentier Mind. February 12th, 2015 Published in anti-Star Trek. Complementing my last post, here’s a story about the twisted ideology that now surrounds intellectual property, where IP is considered not just as utilitarian necessity, but as some kind of inherent natural right. In the most absurd form, it is seen as a moral responsibility for creators to zealously defend any IP they can get their hands on, and maximize whatever amount of money they can squeeze out of it.
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Intellectual Property and Pseudo-Innovation :: Peter Frase
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Intellectual Property and Pseudo-Innovation. February 10th, 2015 Published in anti-Star Trek. I’ve written before about things like patent. The first is the movie. As it turns out, this was not a decision made for any artistic reason, but for a legal one: King’s speeches are still the property. Proprietary to IBM. So in order to copy it, Compaq was forced into a bizarre development system described by. Compaq founder Rod Canlon as follows:. February 22nd, 2015 at 9:43 pm ( #. Which Side Are You On? Democ...
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A Call to Action: A Plan for eBooks at CUNY (Please Participate) – Academic Technology in Higher Education
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Academic Technology in Higher Education. Technologies to facilitate the learning process and increase student success. A Call to Action: A Plan for eBooks at CUNY (Please Participate). December 18, 2011. Http:/ www.vimeo.com/33912870. Join the CUNY eBooks conversation! This is an open proposal to the CUNY community. Take action to drastically reduce the cost of textbooks and create a CUNY-wide eBook program. Together we can make a difference. Follow Professor Wandt on Twitter. July 19, 2012 at 4:50 pm.
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Critique of Any Reason :: Peter Frase
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Critique of Any Reason. February 6th, 2015 Published in Uncategorized. Further to my last post. Some years ago I went to a gallery in Queens, and as a byproduct ended up on a mailing list that periodically advertises at me with various art objects. As it turns out, you can literally shove the enlightenment up your ass. Email (will not be published) (required). Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Which Side Are You On? Friends, Colleagues, and Fellow Travellers.
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Egyptian Lingerie and the Robot Future :: Peter Frase
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Egyptian Lingerie and the Robot Future. August 6th, 2015 Published in anti-Star Trek. The current issue of the. Has a story about the odd phenomenon of Chinese lingerie merchants. 8220;Robots will take all our jobs” is a hardy perennial of popular political economy. Typical of the latest crop is Derek Thompson of the Atlantic, who wrote an article (in which he quotes me), speculating about a “World Without Work”. As I note in my recent Jacobin editorial. And these repeating waves of robo-futurism call in...
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This is not my beautiful house? Building CUNY Communities since 2009. January 17, 2011. January 10th to about the 17th. With all the new blogs going up I feel like I have to stand on a chair and shout these days – and I love it! This time last year we only had about half as many blogs, now there’s a ton of you blogging on the Commons. We’re glad to have you! Okay, so where to start, where to start…? I’ve just written and erased so many sentences, I’ll just let you make your own comment here: . You can...
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New Works and Anti-Works :: Peter Frase
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New Works and Anti-Works. May 4th, 2012 Published in Shameless self-promotion. I’ll blame my recent silence on the fact that I was moving again—as of Tuesday, I’m back in the Grand Duchy. Clearly either the spirits of the Haymarket martyrs or the exploited employees of British Airways were punishing me for traveling on Mayday, because I ended up spending the better part of 24 hours waiting in lines, being redirected to unexpected cities, and having my luggage lost. Consider that lesson learned. Where we ...
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CV :: Peter Frase
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An HTML version will appear here at some point. Which Side Are You On? A $15 minimum wage is too high and that’s great. Friends, Colleagues, and Fellow Travellers. Axylus Digest (@jboy ). Free City (Lee Hachadoorian). Center for Urban Research. CUNY Graduate Center Sociology Department. Democratic Socialists of America. Social Science Statistics Blog.