The Panama Canal, completed in 1914, creates a borderland of North and South. The nation of Panamá was invented by it, a consequence of centuries of Spanish occupation and US imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The canal initiated … Continue reading “Flow”
Social Text presents a new video channel, to be used for lectures, event reports, mini-documentaries and creative work. Check it out on YouTube or Vimeo! We welcome submissions for our video channel. Please email them to socialtext@columbia.edu. Below is the … Continue reading “Social Text Video Channel Up Now”
Two of the more influential books that have taken swipe at our contemporary intellectual property landscape concerned themselves with trademark, logos, and capitalism. Here I am thinking of Rosemary Coombe’s seminal The Cultural Life of Intellectual Property and Naomi Klein’s more activist take on the subject, No Logo. What would happen if you condensed the arguments in these two books into a 15 minute video?
