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24 Nov 09
kulturpunkt.hr: Jugoslavenska kultura? - Ne i da - Una Bauer - FriendFeed
kulturpunkt.hr: Jugoslavenska kultura? - Ne i da
Jugoslavenska kultura? - Ne i da
D. J.: Na primjer, ali i u sarajevskoj kulturi koja je na tome naročito insistirala, prisjetimo se recimo Bregovićevih pokušaja da namjerno spoji Hej Slaveni s Lijepom našom i srpskim nacionalnim pjesmama, govorimo o njegovoj Pljuni i zapjevaj moja Jugoslavijo. Govorimo li o tom stvaranju naročite jugoslavenske kulture kroz niz međusobnih utjecaja, moramo znati da oni nemaju podršku političke elite, nego obratno - na njih se gleda s velikom sumnjičavošću. Tako dolazi do paradoksalne situacije da politička elita ne podržava stvaranje jugoslavenske kulture, ali ona bez obzira na to nastaje. I to ne samo da nastaje jugoslavenska kultura, nego, uzmete li rezultate popisa stanovništva, uvjerit ćete se da se 1981. godine utrostručuje broj ljudi koji se deklariraju kao Jugoslaveni. To je potpuno paradoksalno i očiti je izraz otpora sistemu i njegovu djelovanju. No Wachtel upozorava da je sve to ipak bilo nedovoljno, i da je takav pothvat nemoguć mimo državnog aparata. Osim toga, kad gledamo ono što se događa nakon pada Jugoslavije mi vidimo da države vrlo aktivno djeluju na unificiranju i stvaranju konstitutivnih elemenata.
22 Nov 09
Seth's Blog: Graduate school for unemployed college students
Fewer college grads have jobs than at any other time in recent memory—a report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers annual student survey said that 20 percent of 2009 college graduates who applied for a job actually have...
21 Nov 09
The DPA Non-Paper
"The DPA Non-Paper"
by Arben Xhaferi
Chairman, The Democratic Party of Albanians in Macedonia
April 2001
Challenges to Democracy in Multiethnic States
Challenges to Democracy in Multiethnic States\n\nby Arben Xhaferi\n\nEdited by Shirley Cloyes, Balkan Affairs Adviser, Albanian American Civic League
18 Nov 09
"Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media"
With the barriers to distribution collapsing, what matters is not the act of distribution, but the act of consumption. Thus, the power is no longer in the hands of those who control the channels of distribution, but those who control the limited resource of attention. This is precisely why YOU were the Person of the Year. Your attention is precious and valuable. It's no longer about push; it's about pull. And the law of two feet is now culturally pervasive.
16 Nov 09
If Blogging Had No Ethics, Blogging Would Have Failed
Talk at Whose rules? conference on blogging and ethics.
10 Nov 09
What computer science can teach economics
Of course, most games are more complicated than the penalty-kick game, and their Nash equilibria are more difficult to calculate. But the reason the Nash equilibrium is associated with Nash’s name — and not the names of other mathematicians who, over the preceding century, had described Nash equilibria for particular games — is that Nash was the first to prove that every game must have a Nash equilibrium. Many economists assume that, while the Nash equilibrium for a particular market may be hard to find, once found, it will accurately describe the market’s behavior.
Daskalakis’s doctoral thesis — which won the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2008 dissertation prize — casts doubts on that assumption. Daskalakis, working with Christos Papadimitriou of the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Liverpool’s Paul Goldberg, has shown that for some games, the Nash equilibrium is so hard to calculate that all the computers in the world couldn’t find it in the lifetime of the universe. And in those cases, Daskalakis believes, human beings playing the game probably haven’t found it either.
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- Related: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/explainer-pnp.html - novica on 2009-11-10
09 Nov 09
Op-Ed Contributor - 20 Years of Collapse - NYTimes.com
What these belated anti-Communists fail to realize is that the image they provide of their society comes uncannily close to the most abused traditional leftist image of capitalism: a society in which formal democracy merely conceals the reign of a wealthy minority. In other words, the newly born anti-Communists don’t get that what they are denouncing as perverted pseudo-capitalism simply is capitalism.
07 Nov 09
Fear of becoming minority as a motivator of conflict in the former Yugoslavia
A democratic Yugoslavia would make all ethnic groups (including the Serbs) what they really were - a minority. The fear of becoming a minority (which was created by nationalist members of the counter-elite) was the main reason why a large segment of the population supported separation.\n\n At the same time, those segments of the former "constitutive nations" and "nationalities" which in new circumstances became minorities (especially Serbs, but also Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as Albanians in Serbia) refused to accept the new concept for the same reason : they feared they would become minorities at territories in which they once had been recognised as constitutive. The fears of being existentially endangered if a minority, led all these groups (Slovenes, Croats, Bosnian and Croatian Serbs, Serbian Albanians, Bosnian Croats) towards separatism, and in most cases to authoritarian and military styles of governing in their new political entities. I argue that the fear of becoming a minority was, and remains, a major motivator of conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Subsequently, that conflict is likely to continue for as long as the main Yugoslav ethnic groups fear for their survival.
- This new discourse, however, contained in itself notions of both “majority” and “minority”. Representative democracy is rule by a majority, which is identified in free and fair elections. Minorities are recognised and protected: but – they could hardly count on being in practice in everything equal with the majority. Regardless of various instruments of minority protection, it is ultimately the majority that takes decisions. Both the doctrine of “self-managing agreement and harmonisation” and the practise of self-management, were now to be replaced by majority voting in which every citizen (not republics or ethnic groups) was treated as equal to every other[15]. Instead of ideological constructions of anti-state “socio-political communities” (as “a new form of social organisation” which was to replace the state), a proper (Yugoslav) state was to be created. Almost inevitably, representative democracy would create a Yugoslav demos instead of six “constitutive nations” and “nationalities”. Equally likely, the existence of a Yugoslav “civic nation” would become the main substance of a democratic Yugoslavia’s new identity, which would undermine already weak linguistic, religious, cultural and political boundaries between the existing “constitutive nations”. Ultimately, a Yugoslav nation would emerge as a product of representative democracy. In normal circumstances, political parties and votes, as well as post-electoral coalitions would cut across ethnic lines. - novica on 2009-11-08
06 Nov 09
The Red Republic: J. Slavyanski's Guide to Anti-Communism
The following post is a satirical guide to anti-communism first compiled more than a year ago by J. Slavyanski on August 22, 2007. Each time I see this I cannot help but put a smile on my face on its utter "truthiness".
28 Oct 09
Choosing the Right Grad School
Choosing where to get your PhD is not the same as choosing where to get your undergrad. The reputation of the school matters and the awesome-ness of your peers matters, but the MOST significant factor in your sanity and success is your relationship with your advisor. I cannot say this loudly enough.
23 Oct 09
What's the Right Economics for Cyberspace? by Michael H. Goldhaber
Suppose archaeologists were to unearth the remains of a previously unknown civilization; should they assume from the outset that neo-classical economics correctly explained what went on there? Obviously not. Much the same applies to cyberspace, including the Net. In effect it is a newly discovered civilization, despite the fact that we ourselves and our descendants will inhabit it. Without examination, nothing justifies concluding in advance that neo-classical economics will apply. Indeed, because life in cyberspace is so different from what we are used to outside it, as a first guess, it makes sense to tilt against that supposition.
Economics is dead. Long live economics!
Paul Samuelson provided the textbook definition of economics as the "study of how societies use scarce resources to produce valuable commodities and distribute them among different people." Would this definition apply to the information age - or to life on the Internet? Controversies in current literature relate primarily to the words "scarce", "resource" (and hence "commodity") and "produce".
The Attention Economy: The Natural Economy of the Net
If the Web and the Net can be viewed as spaces in which we will increasingly live our lives, the economic laws we will live under have to be natural to this new space. These laws turn out to be quite different from what the old economics teaches, or what rubrics such as "the information age" suggest. What counts most is what is most scarce now, namely attention. The attention economy brings with it its own kind of wealth, its own class divisions - stars vs. fans - and its own forms of property, all of which make it incompatible with the industrial-money-market based economy it bids fair to replace. Success will come to those who best accommodate to this new reality.
21 Oct 09
I, Coffee
Мапа на движењето на кафето и чашите низ светот.
- More coffee: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/coffee - novica on 2009-11-11
28 Sep 09
You looked better on MySpace
This paper examines Social Network Site (SNS) users’ criticism of a popular style of SNS profile picture referred to as “MySpace Angles.” Reactions to this style of portraiture label the display of these photographs “deceptive,” alleging that MySpace Angles fool users into believing that the subject is more attractive than they actually are. This case study approach utilizes a close reading analysis of the MySpace Angle commentary, revealing three main themes in users’ critique of MySpace Angles: 1) users who post these photographs are conforming to a social trend at the expense of their individuality; 2) the presentation of these photographs is narcissistic; and, 3) these photographs purposefully conceal the body. This case study displays a shift in the conception of deception online; on the social Web populated by SNSs, theories of deception and authenticity are called into question as users are increasingly anchored to their bodies and expected to effortlessly present an online self mirroring the off–line self.
27 Sep 09
The Digital Given--10 Web 2.0 Theses by Ippolita, Geert Lovink
The internet turns out to be neither the problem nor the solution for the global recession. As an indifferent bystander it doesn't lend itself easily as a revolutionary tool. The virtual has become the everyday. The New Deal is presented as green, not digital. The digital is a given. This low-key position presents an opportunity to rethink the Web 2.0 hype.
HOWTO build your own open source Dropbox clone | fak3r
Meanwhile at work I’m working on a solution to sync large data clusters online and the project manager described it as the need for ‘Dropbox on steroids’. Before I had thought it was more complicated, but after thinking about it, I realized he was right. Look, Dropbox is a great idea, but it obviously is just a melding of rsync, with something watching for file changes to initiate the sync, along with an easy to use front end. From there I just started looking at ways this could work, and there are more than a few; here’s how I made it work.
23 Sep 09
Copyright v. Culture - MTT - Music Think Tank
In the case of the written word, it is possible to draw inspiration (and characters) from multiple sources and to bring those characters together in a new context to reveal new truths (or at least discussions) about the human condition, but when this is attempted with musical materials (such as Danger Mouse’s The Gray Album), the music industry demands no less than total destruction of all such works.
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