1. Re:The Question of the Midwest
(Communicate/Culture)

...ass directions in reality. The word "orient" is derived from Latin oriens, meaning East. In the Middle Ages many maps, including the T and O maps, were drawn with East at the top (meaning th...

2. Privatizing the Internet and “the Public”
(Communicate/Global)

...dly see the people with folding chairs and blankets waiting outside congressional office buildings in the middle of the night, then lining up to shuffle into the building in the mornings, and setting ...

3. Re:\'$100 laptop\' production begins
(Communicate/Global)

...those systems and laws to organize in a different way. Of course we often find ourselves somewhere in the middle and ends up being more a question of concentration rather than an absolute. What I li...

4. Re:The Question of the Midwest
(Communicate/Culture)

...y, all create generalities to express the complex circuitry that is "territory". Africa/Maghreb/Middle East/Southern Asia, these geographical subregions are convenient, but discount the diff...

5. Re:The Question of the Midwest
(Communicate/Culture)

...s Gerais, Brazil, and associated it with the Indiana from which I came. The 'Midwest' isn't really in the middle of the Western states (as the name "Midwest" might suggest), and Minas Gerais...

6. Re:The Question of the Midwest
(Communicate/Culture)

...from taking Delaware Indian land to a former manufacturing industry. Ball State University’s Center for Middletown Studies releases [url=http://www.bsu.edu/middletown/socialchange/]The Social Change...

7. Re:The Question of the Midwest
(Communicate/Culture)

Muncie, IN, was researched in a famous sociological study, published as a book with the title, [i]Middletown[/i]. It was chosen, I am told, for being seen as the "most average"--and for a lo

8. Re:Behind hate, a constitutional debate
(Communicate/Global)

Blessed are the peacemakers... [url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3104350.ece]Seven hurt in punch-up at Church of the Nativity[/url] http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t

9. Re:The Question of the Midwest
(Communicate/Culture)

...d an historical significance to the term midwest. Geographically, it's closer to the east and ends in the middle, but through it's name relates two things: 1) It is a passage, a middle not an end, a...

10. Re:Articles becomming a Journal
(Communicate/Multitude.tv)

...s recieve a numbered footnote, which then also elimnates the need for underlining. [b]ii.)[/b] a "middle" way: [b]a hierarchy is established[/b]: [b]some[/b] hyperlinks are [b]NOT[/b] foo...

11. NEWS ITEMS: proper \"etiquette\" + style?
(Communicate/Multitude.tv)

...ents--including editorializing by the author of the news item post)? I have [i]tried[/i] to steer a "middle" way, namely, I do provide links to related articles and websites at the bottom of...

12. Re:Agamben on Bios/Zoe
(Communicate/Philosophy)

...t of exam question (a question developing out of adiscussion with some friends over Agamben), I am in the middle of working out the difference between Biopower and Biopolitics as related in Foucault a...

13. Middle East Peace Conference
(Communicate/Global)

This thread discusses the Content article: [url=http://multitude.tv/content/view/358/]Middle East Peace Conference[/url] Palestinians have become permanent refugees. [url=http://www.un.org/unrwa/over

14. Douglas Rushkoff lecture: "Can Advertising and Branding Be Used for Progressive Ends?"
(News/Culture)

...bsp;   A rough-and-ready sampler of topics from the lecture, starting a half-hour in:   0:31:15 middle ages / age of cathedrals / rise of corporations 0:39:25 'no logo' logo / adbusters / wi...

15. New media present, attacked with police/FBI raids before RNC 2008 (Aug-Sept)
(News/Media)

THE UPTAKE is one new media source which has been documenting (live) a series of heavy-handed raids in the Minneapolis area before the 2008 RNC. [Full news item includes updates.] THE UPTAKE is

16. Clay Shirky Appears on Colbert Report (April 3, 2008)
(News/Media)

Interview - Clay Shirky Thursday Apr 3 2008 | Episode: #04043 Clay Shirky encourages the Colbert Nation to do something interesting with Doritos bags. [text from Comedy Central website]  &

17. Judge Dismisses Case Against Art Professor Steve Kurtz (April, 2008)
(News/Art)

The artist and professor Steve Kurtz, who has been fighting charges of bioterrorism for years, has now seen the federal indictment against him dismissed by a judge. Story from the Progressive magazine

18. Animal Inspired Automatons
(News/Science)

I've recently come across a variety of animal inspired automatons and they all seem to have two things in common - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) - an agency of the United State

19. Salmon Sperm based BioLEDs
(News/Science)

Professor Andrew Steckl, a University of Cincinnati researcher and leading expert in light-emitting diodes, is intensifying the properties of LEDs by introducing biological materials, specifically sal

20. Pentagon Plots Sim Iraq
(News/Global)

... of Defense is getting help from a computer model of "Human, Social, and Cultural Behavior" in Middle Eastern Locales. The simulation tool will be used to help military trainers handle (mat...

21. Middle East Peace Conference
(News/Global)

...Israel and Palestine.“More than 40 countries have been invited to Annapolis to show support for the Middle East peace process. The Bush administration scored two important diplomatic victories b...

22. Ethiopia: UN report warns of looming food crisis in Ogaden
(News/Culture)

...hese areas fear for their individual safety and security and expressed trepidation at being caught in the middle of the ongoing conflict." It called on both sides in the conflict to respect the r...

23. Water Walking Robots
(News/Science)

...C, D: supporting legs; E and F: actuating legs; G: body with on-board electronics and power source; H: middle actuator; I and J: right and left actuators. Image credit: Yun Seong Song and Metin ...

24. Materialism at the Millennium
(Articles/Reviews)

... at the bottom of history, the sluggish cycles of material culture in the middle, and frothy human events at the top. A more detailed encounter ...

25. China's "last cave dwellers"
(News/Culture)

Article by Ben Blanchard 'Wang's village of Zhongdong -- which literally means "middle cave" -- is built in a huge, aircraft hanger-sized natural cave, carved inside a mountain over tho

26. Fear and Loathing in the Bay State
(News/Media)

...e 38 LED signs (of one of two villains of the show, either Ignignokt or Err, defiantly gesturing with the middle finger) in the Boston area. By January 29th, all of these quasi "lite brites"...

27. life after the death of theory
(News/Culture)

...en that his self-contempt is as strong as his strong dislike of 'theory' . Anyway it's 2005 and from the middle of nowhere the death of theory is announced... chronicle.com/jobs/2005/04/200504...

28. Left in the Desert
(News/Global)

...ders. At about 11pm, the buses crossed the border at 3 different points and the migrants were left in the middle of nowhere.' 'Blockades by the Special Police prevented supporters from Oujda to r...

29. China's River Dolphin Declared Extinct
(News/Global)

...baiji.org, a Swiss foundation, ended empty-handed after six weeks of patrolling its onetime waters in the middle and lower stretches of the river, the baiji’s only known habitat.' (full article ...

30. English-speaking Al Jazeera to give Middle East view
(News/Media)

...levision station Al Jazeera launches an English-speaking channel on Wednesday to report world news from a Middle East perspective and challenge the dominance of Western media.''The station, which has ...