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Mediated

Posted on July 19, 2010 | No Comments
There’s been a lot of talk of late about whether internet technology is good for our brains. Nicholas Carr’s new book The Shallows is skeptical; Steven Pinker optimistic; and Clay Shirky enthusiastic. If such discussion mirrors a more general obsession with anything related to the...
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Cuba and Filtering software

Posted on July 15, 2010 | No Comments
In a recent post in Voces Cubana by Miguel Iturría Savón reflects on why he’s been finding it impossible to access any of the blogs in the Cuban Voices project from computers on the island with full connection the internet. He finds himself talking to...
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Tzvetan Todorov, Cuba and Exile

Posted on July 13, 2010 | No Comments
There has been an eerie echo of the 21st century reverberating through the news this last week. Ten Russian spies were deported from Russia in exchange for four alleged “double agents”. The theatricality of the swap, which took place on the tarmac of Vienna airport...
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