November 09, 2004
Red and Blue
Annenberg IML Salon:
“What did I do… to be so red and blue?”*:
a consideration of nationalism, multimedia technology, and the ’04 election.
Friday, November 12, at 2:30
in the Annenberg IML library
By way of Andrew Durkin, Postdoctoral Fellow at the IML: "Okay, the election is over. So what do we do now? Are we all still Americans? Do we secede? Why do the “red states” hate us? (Is it “for our freedom”?) And what does multimedia technology have to do with politics, anyway?
Suggested reading:
Siva Vaidhyanathan: “The Empire Strikes Back” (to be forwarded soon as an attached PDF). This is a chapter from Vaidhyanathan’s latest book, The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System. For more on Vaidhyanathan: www.sivacracy.net.
Smiley, Jane: “Why Americans Hate Democrats—a Dialogue”; available at http://slate.msn.com/id/2109218/#ContinueArticle
Anatol Lieven: “America Right or Wrong”; available at www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-3-77-2081.jsp
Frank Pastore: “Christian Conservatives Must Not Compromise”; available at http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-pastore5nov05,1,3170258.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions
Daniel W. Drezner, Henry Farrell: “Web of Influence”; available at www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2707&page=0
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