'capitalism' Tag

• Review: 10 Books That Screwed Up the World by Benjamin Wiker

  May 12, 2008

  Benjamin Wiker’s book on bad books throughout the ages is misinformed and makes a few critical errors in its analysis. Specifically, it ignores the cultural context around each book he critiques, treating them as pure subliminal propaganda.

  posted in Reviews and Responses by R. Stuart Geiger

• Notions of Identity Liberation in Virtual Gaming Communities

  May 5, 2006

  The vast worlds of MMORPGs seem close to postmodern theories of identity, as a player is able to radically constitute their on-line self at will. Despite this, these virtual gaming communities should not be seen as safe spaces in which a subject can realize their true (or ideal) self.

  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger

• Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response by Colonialism

  March 8, 2006

  Embracing Trobriand cricket as an instance in which domineering cultural empires were repelled is a flawed concept which masks the very forms of domination that it attempts to criticize.

  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger

• Open Source Software: The Newest Specter?

  November 23, 2005

  Corporate adoption of open source software should not be viewed as antithetical to capitalism; rather, it is an example of corporations co-opting Communism to become more capitalist.

  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger