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John Phillip Santos, James Der Derian and Eugene Jarecki with the inaugural 2006 Global Media class (and Che T-shirts)

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rhetorics of surveillance and other paranoid practices....

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Greetings all

I hope by now your ganglia have stopped twitching from Tom Levin's two-hour bravura performance yesterday on the surveillant society (and what we can do about it), so you can take in today's presentation by John Santos (in person) on the much ballyhooed 'Nokia Effect'. Crash class assignment: Bring your cell phone cameras and record and transmit this event to friends, foes, and major news outlets.

JDD

Posted by James Der Derian on May 3, 2006 02:18 PM |

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And, for the latest incarnation of scary surveillance-related tools, check out this article in today's Times....

Posted by: Ellen | May 3, 2006 02:46 PM

Totally unrelated, but relevevant to today's class discussion, the transcript of Colbert at the Press Corps Dinner.

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/1441/59811

Posted by: Anonymous | May 3, 2006 06:55 PM

Also Colbert takes on Bill Kristol from WWF.

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/TCR-Kristol-PNAC.wmv

Posted by: Anonymous | May 3, 2006 07:49 PM

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