Re: [silk] Hackers as political animals

2016-12-14 Thread Gabriella Coleman
Thanks for sharing. It is interesting, Malcolm Gladwell just published a piece on Snowden, concluding he was *not* a whistleblower but a hacker technocrat. He used part of my work to make the point, which was frustrating as the whole point of a lot of my recent work is to think about how hackers ha

Re: [silk] Is sugar toxic?

2014-04-03 Thread Gabriella Coleman
There is also a Mother Jones piece on the questionable tactics used by the sugar industry to blot out public knowledge of their research ( http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/sugar-industry-lies-campaign) . It is also not simply that sugar is bad for you, a lot of evidence is mounting t

Re: [silk] Hacking the World

2013-04-02 Thread Gabriella Coleman
slips of paper about the case of Jeremy Hammond, an anarchist and > Anonymous member who was in prison awaiting trial for breaking into the > servers of the security company Stratfor. There was Stanley Cohen, a > civil-rights lawyer representing some of Hammond's fellow Anons, and

Re: [silk] Hacker Anthropologists

2012-11-26 Thread Gabriella Coleman
Thanks Udhay and let me actually thank Chris Kelty for being the BEST mentor I could ever have. The book will be available for download for free (as in speech, sort of and beer) on my website. I will announce it when it is the case. Warm regards, Biella On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Udhay Sha

Re: [silk] Hacker Anthropologists

2011-08-22 Thread Gabriella Coleman
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > On 14-Jan-11 5:54 AM, Gabriella Coleman wrote: > > > "As for Ms. Coleman, I appreciate the work she's doing but I would not > > want to be locked in a room with her. She has gazed deeply into the > >

Re: [silk] Hacker Anthropologists

2011-01-13 Thread Gabriella Coleman
gt; 'hacker anthropologist'. :) > > Udhay > > http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/13/interview-with-hacke.html > > Interview with hacker anthropologist Biella Coleman > > Cory Doctorow at 4:46 AM Thursday, Jan 13, 2011 > > In this week's show, Thomas Gideon

Re: [silk] Anarchy

2008-07-21 Thread Gabriella Coleman
"classical" tradition of anarchism, past and present, and try to hit the anarchist book fairs when they hit the cities where I live so I am biased toward that tradition in terms of my knowledge-base. But feel free to email me off list too if this is not appropriate here! Gabriella --

Re: [silk] Anarchy

2008-07-21 Thread Gabriella Coleman
great book that explores the strengths and limits of both anarchism (in the classical, enlightenment tradition) and capitalism is the Dispossessed by Ursula l LeGuinn. Gabriella -- Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor Department of Media, Culture, & Communication New York Univers

Re: [silk] Anarchy

2008-07-20 Thread Gabriella Coleman
has to offer anarchist theory. Great food for thought. Biella -- Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor Department of Media, Culture, & Communication New York University 239 Greene St, 7th floor NY NY 10003 + http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/dcc/Home/