research sources: March 2005 Archives

I read a piece James gave me from opendemocracy.net today, and now this link included in the AoIR list's debate on universal ethics, Think Again: Civil Society makes some of the same points. This is one of the macrosocial themes I think my research will speak to, the other is transnational citizenship - transnational referring to individuals who have family and business ties to two or more countries and citizenship referring to legal status and political rights (as it is now, there is not much choice in this, one's "nation" is typically inscribed at birth and usually limited to one country).

Kathy sent this link to the game, Nomic, the point of which is to change the rules. Maybe I'll get to play it this summer? I think it could be fascinating to observe/participate in a setting in which one cannot rely on the rules staying the same. Could be quite the mind-f*ck, eh?

Of course, I'm all about changing the rules. :-) No wonder I stress folks out so much, sometimes. But I like certain rules to stay the same too - so the art of change, perhaps, is flexing with the flow of each other's static and fluid rule systems?

Interesting NCA paper, on Reading Identity Politics through Marx.

Critique of Althusser and also of Foucault: A Lover's Discourse: Using French Social Thought for Media Criticism.