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Great Food. Offensive Stickers.

August 15, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

Just hours from completing this year’s summer road trip we enjoyed a great dinner in a midwestern diner at the Cedar Country Cooperative’s Exit 45 Restaurant. I enjoyed an open-faced hot turkey sandwich with mashed potatoes and gravy. I only wish I had space for a slice of their awesome pies! Check out links from their Facebook page for photos. The welcoming homestyle cooking, however, couldn’t have clashed more with the offensive messages of some of the stickers for sale […]

Categories: Consumption, Nationalism, Objects of Power • Tags: bumper stickers, Cedar Country Cooperative, Cenex, English Only, God, language, stickers, Wisconsin, xenophobia

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Museum Fatigue Reads, July 12, 2014

July 11, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

The Origins of Office Speak The Affective Economy: Producing and Consuming Affects in Deleuze and Guattari The Case Against the Sharing Economy Laurie Taylor on the endangered art of ethnography Sidney D. Gamble Photographs How China’s Selden Map Rewrote History Digital Resources for Sinologists 1.0 Future Islands MET Museum Collection Online Brazilian Man Becomes Korean After 10 Plastic Surgeries We Are All Made of Stars How Did We Get Here (University Hall) at this Point of Time (the “Anthropocene”)? The […]

Categories: Museum Fatigue Reads • Tags: bodies, China, drones, ethnography, faculty, higher education, internet, jobs, language, Photography, rolling coal, sharing economy, virtual life

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Tom Skype’s Sensitive Words: A Trove of Keywords for Contemporary China

March 10, 2013 by Museum Fatigue

In China, pretty much everyone knows that the Internet is heavily policed. The people know. The government knows the people know. The people know the government knows the people know. In fact, the “open secret” of the Great Firewall is surely an important part of the way censorship works in China. Precisely because people know Internet censorship exists, the party-state benefits from the efficiency of self-policing as a means of control rather than relying exclusively on external enforcement in real […]

Categories: China, Discipline, Internet, Language, Scripts, Surveillance • Tags: censorship, internet, language, sensitive words, Skype, technology, 敏感词

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