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Suggested reading: Cihan Tuğal’s Passive Revolution

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I have recently finished reading Cihan Tugal’s Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism. I have met Cihan when he was doing his fieldwork for the research for this book when I was working on my master’s thesis. His book is an ethnographic contribution to understand contemporary Turkey. He plays with Gramscian ideas of … Read more

Two books for the history of internet

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One is a “proper” one with a very nice language: A History of the Internet and the Digital Future by Johnny Ryan. Especially the early histories parts are informative and fun to read. Not that later parts are worse, just that there is a flood of information for the very recent periods and too much … Read more

Yochai Benkler: The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom Yochai Benkler This book has become another key work in my cyberculture readings. Prof. Benkler provides an exhaustive presentation of what is out there. It sometimes become repetitive and too detailed but for those who are interested in the mechanics and culture of open … Read more

Virtual issue on Water by Cultural Anthropology

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VIRTUAL ISSUE: WATER – CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHORS AND COMMENTARY from Cultural Anthropology by acarse CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHORS AND COMMENTARY BY STEFAN HELMREICH Authors were posed the following questions, their answers follow: TWO BOOKS TO ANNOUNCE: News Online Transformations and Continuities Graham Meikle and Guy Redden Palgrave Macmillan Introduction: Transformation and Continuity – Graham … Read more

Erkan recommends three books, Coetzee’s Summertime and two more..

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I would like to mention three books I have recently read and liked.
J.M. Coetzee is no new to me and I am his fan since I have read Disgrace: A Novel. Summertime is “a semisequel to the fictionalized memoirs Boyhood and Youth that takes the form of a young biographer’s interviews with colleagues of the late author John Coetzee.” I have loved this kind of fictionalized authobiographical work in addition to his powerful language and theme of a lonely man of which I am always interested in. It is not as majestic as Disgrace but full recommended.

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