Posts Tagged ‘The New School’
money: insignia of the experience of purchase
April 11th, 2010 by lifeproof
I know that I am a bit late to write this post by more than a decade, but an article reminded me of all these things that I keep on saying. In that article the author refers to this book a few times, which I recently became aware of: The Art of Money: The History and Design [...]
Tags: abstract transaction, abstraction of the economic exchange, abstraction of the moment of exchange, abstraction of the ritual of physical exchange, Anatolia, Apologue, Bank of Sweden, banknote, China, conspicuous consumption, economic exchange, emergence of paper money, Europe, experience design, first usage of paper money, Jean Baudrillard, Lydians, metal coins, Netherlands, paper money, Parsons School of Design, Pierre Bourdieu, Song Dynasty, Spanish Siege at Leyden, Stockholms Banco, Tali Krakowsky, The Art of Money, The Art of Money: The History and Design of Paper Currency from Around the World, The History and Design of Paper Currency from Around the World, the moment of exchange, The New School, The New School Parsons School of Design, The Theory of Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen, wherewithal of exchange
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles
share 2.0: culture of sharing
February 21st, 2010 by lifeproof
Last year in May, we were having an informal talk with Jonathan D. Schwartz, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Cablevision Systems and previous General Counsel of Napster (remember Napster vs. Metallica), as a group of international media scholars in New York City. We talked about his current occupation and his past career activities, but [...]
Tags: Apple, blogger is the new marketer, BookCrossing, Bruce Nussbaum, Cablevision Systems, change of consumer culture, Channel Thirteen, consumer, consumer culture, consumer dynamics, CouchSurfing, CrowdSpirit, culture of sharing, Design Thinking Class, dynamics of sharing, dynamics of sharing in web 2.0, facebook, file sharing, filesharing, Google, IBM, ICQ, internet, iPad, IRC, Jonathan D. Schwartz, Kindle, Mac, Metallica, Microsoft, MP3, MSN, napster, New York City, PirateBay, Robin Chase, share 2.0, sharing dynamics, social media, social media analysis, social media consulting, the culture of sharing, The New School, The Pirate Bay, web 2.0, wikipedia, Windows, zipcar
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, Reminder
Police Brutality Against the Occupiers
April 10th, 2009 by lifeproof
Here you can watch the police brutally attacking and pepper spraying the protesters and/or the occupiers, who did not get into any kind of violent action themselves. This clearly is a violation of personal rights… I protest NYPD police officers brutality and inconsiderateness in this situation, where the protesters and occupiers were not involved in [...]
Tags: brutality, civil disobedience, NYPD, occupation, pepper spray, police, protest, The New School, The New School for Social Research, The New School in Exile
Posted in PinPoint, PoliTickles, Reminder
The New School Re-Exiled
April 10th, 2009 by lifeproof
a photo from the first occupation This morning The New School was occupied again (the first occupation, by The New School in Exile was in December and ended somewhat peacefully, but the students claimed that they would occupy the whole building next time if Bob Kerrey and Jim Murtha did not resign by April 1). [...]
Tags: 65 5th Avenue, April 10, blog, Bob Kerrey, Jim Murtha, NY1, occupation, pepper spray, police, re-occupation, resignation, student activism, The New School, The New School for Social Research, The New School in Exile, The New York Times, The University in Exile
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