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Cruising On The Left: Notes On A Genealogy Of "Left" Communication Research In The United States, Hanno Hardt

Fast Capitalism

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Online Democratic Deliberation In A Time Of Information Abundance, Craig Bellamy

Fast Capitalism

The intensified use of the Internet by civil society groups and governments for political purposes has left many questions unexplained—especially in terms of the Internet’s effects upon deliberative democratic processes. The Internet was first imagined as a means to revitalize deliberative processes. However, poor design and lack of usability research meant that many ambitions went largely unrealized. With a new wave of Internet technologies, ‘deliberative design’ has become even more important to stem what many claim is a trend towards political fragmentation and disaggregation. In a time of ‘information abundance’ mounting political communication online may also undermine collectivist, deliberative democratic …

Class Observations: "Intimate" Technologies And The Poetics Of Reality Tv, Irmi Karl

Fast Capitalism

For some of us, one of the biggest surprises of the 2006 Big Brother show was not the winner, Pete Bennett, but, according to The Guardian newspaper, the fact that “[a]fter seven years, the BB brand is stronger than ever” (Lawson 2006:3). The fact that cultural critics are wishing the show away at the point at which it has reached its popular cultural zenith of mass appeal is significant in that it is indicative of a widely held position, which readily equates (mass) media culture with bad or low culture, frightening, out of bounds, vulgar and excessive (Skeggs 2005a). At …

The Imf In Singapore: The Staging Of A City, Yasmin Ibrahim

Fast Capitalism

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Compliance Fiction: Adorno And Horkheimer's 'Culture Industry' Thesis In A Multimedia Age, Sam Caslin

Fast Capitalism

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Fast Spectacle: Reflections On Hurricane Katrina And The Contradictions Of Spectacle, Kevin Gotham

Fast Capitalism

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Modern Science, Enlightenment, And The Domination Of Nature: No Exit?, William Leiss

Fast Capitalism

"The disease of reason is that reason was born from man’s urge to dominate nature." —Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason (1947)

In the fuller passage from which this extract is taken, Horkheimer locates the origins of the ‘collective madness’ of modern times in ‘in primitive objectification, in the first man’s calculating contemplation of the world as prey’ (176). Perhaps all one can say in response is, if this diagnosis is correct, there is certainly no cure, so we might as well get on with our lives.

In the early sections of this paper I will first note briefly the argument …

Corporate Power, Ecological Crisis, And Animal Rights, Carl Boggs

Fast Capitalism

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Child Poverty Typologies And Protective Factors In Scavenger Communities: Implications For Participatory Social Development Strategies, Debrina Vita Ferezagia, Budiman Mahmud Musthofa

Jurnal Vokasi Indonesia

This study aims to develop a typology of child poverty and identify protective factors that can support the formulation of social development strategies. The research was conducted through a case study in a scavenger settlement area in Jakarta using a qualitative approach, through observations and in-depth interviews. The findings show that child poverty in scavenger communities can be categorized into three main dimensions: material poverty, opportunity poverty, and relational poverty. However, behind these vulnerabilities, several protective factors play a crucial role in sustaining the resilience of both children and the community. In the dimension of material poverty, although children face …

A Proposal For Citizenship As Reparations For Descendants Of The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Dan Olson

Student Scholarship

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Cardozo Law News Brief: January 30, 2026, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Briefs

Highlights from the January 30, 2026, Cardozo Law News Brief include:

• The Perlmutter Foundation expanded its support for Cardozo’s Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice, increasing its contribution to $16 million, with up to $2 million more committed.

• Professor Lindsay Nash spoke to USA Today, TIME, and Lawyer Monthly about ICE’s claims that it does not need judicial warrants to enter homes, emphasizing the constitutional concerns.

• Professor Haiyun Damon-Feng was quoted in The Guardian regarding constitutional issues raised by Trump’s ICE deployment in Minneapolis.

• Professor Alexander Reinert spoke to The Marshall Project about the legal barriers civilians face when …

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Fighting The Black Snake: The Dapl And The Case For Indigenous Environmental Stewardship, Kenny Moll

Student Theses 2015-Present

This thesis analyzes the current scope of environmental injustice on Native lands in the U.S. Specifically it examines The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and its impacts on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota. Western colonialism and capitalism have dominated North American ecosystems since their forcible introduction hundreds of years ago, causing the commodification of natural resources and leading to injustices such as that of the “Black Snake.” However, the story of The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s resistance will be analyzed through the framework of Indigenous philosophy and environmental justice. Chapter 1 analyzes the implementation of the DAPL and …

Sga 57 Senate 2026-01-30 Minutes, Niu Student Government Association Senate

Student Government Association Archives

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In Re: Our Alchemy Llc And Anderson Digital Llc

2026 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware

Reflection On ‘Adolescence’ And Mental Health, Souraha Longo

Introduction to Public Health

A brief summary & reflection of the Netflix Drama Adolescence (from a Public Health perspective).

Constitutional Interpretation As Problem Solving: How The Modalities Work, Jack M. Balkin

Texas A&M Law Review

The standard forms of constitutional argument—the modalities—are central to one of the most important approaches to constitutional interpretation: constitutional pluralism. Both originalists and non-originalists use the modalities. This Essay explains how they work. The modalities of constitutional argument are shared cultural tools for thinking about the Constitution, analyzing legal problems, and formulating arguments to resolve them. Constitutional interpretation is a kind of problem solving, and the modalities are our legal culture’s toolkit for analyzing and solving constitutional problems.

Our use of the modalities presumes that at any point in time, some arguments are better than others. This assumption is central …

Originalist Arguments In Free Speech History, Samantha Barbas

Texas A&M Law Review

Contrary to what historians and legal scholars have often assumed, originalism has played an important role in American free speech history. During the 1950s, originalist interpretations of the First Amendment as prohibiting the crime of seditious libel became popular in legal argumentation, court rulings, and in popular culture more generally. The reason for the popularity of these arguments was the Red Scare. Liberal lawyers, judges, and scholars deployed originalist arguments in their battles against government anti-Communist measures. They argued that the original meaning and purpose of the First Amendment was the ban on punishment for criticism of the government, and …

Race, Memory, And Authority In Constitutional Interpretation, Henry L. Chambers, Jr.

Texas A&M Law Review

This Essay considers how America’s history and memory regarding race complicate constitutional interpretation. If scholars interpreted the Constitution merely to determine what the majority view of the Constitution may have been when it was ratified—its original public meaning (“OPM”)—the loose use of history and memory to interpret the Constitution might be acceptable. What the People—whose membership is contested—thought the Constitution meant when it was framed is interesting, so long as it does not bind us today. However, as Jack Balkin notes in Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation, lawyers and judges attempt to use history …

Memory Warriors, Pluralists, And Abnegators In Constitutional Interpretation: An Essay On Jack Balkin's Pluralist Originalism In Memory And Authority, Jed Handelsman Shugerman, Zachary Shugerman Handelsman

Texas A&M Law Review

One of the most compelling and generative aspects of Jack Balkin’s Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation is its synthesis of constitutional theory, history, and the growing field of the “politics of memory,” and especially the concept of the “memory entrepreneur.” The book project itself is entrepreneurial, if you will, in its cultivating, connecting, and building from different disciplines, academic languages, and national narratives (in that the “politics of memory” is already such an international and interdisciplinary field itself).

Roger Taney, Memory Entrepreneur, Anne Twitty

Texas A&M Law Review

Roger Taney’s infamous “opinion of the court” in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which rejected the possibility that Black Americans could ever be citizens of the United States, was rooted in the authority of the past.

But Taney’s account of that past has been a source of criticism ever since the decision was rendered.

To be sure, there was plenty to complain about. Many, though certainly not all, have taken issue with Taney’s narrative of the making of the United States Constitution and its attendant meaning, critiquing both Taney’s understanding of the Union and his insistence that the Constitution was, …

Memory And Authority Of Failed Constitutional Amendments, Julie C. Suk

Texas A&M Law Review

When the original public meaning of any constitutional provision is enforced, guarantees of rights that were adopted before women were included in legal rights may appear illegitimate and inadequate for a 21st-century democracy. Originalists have long pointed to Article V amendment as the legitimate path to changing the Constitution. Jack Balkin’s Memory and Authority points to the importance of expanding American constitutional memory if women and minorities are to be included in the transhistorical “We the People.” This Essay illustrates how the memory and authority of failed constitutional amendments can challenge originalists’ reliance on amendment as the path to democratically …

Balkin Amid Balkanization: Constitutional Construction, The Uses Of History, And Interpretive Discretion In A Divided Country, Neil S. Siegel

Texas A&M Law Review

Professor Jack Balkin’s Memory and Authority is a good book by a great constitutional theorist, but it gives me some pause. Balkin’s account of legitimate constitutional construction is so capacious and seemingly accepting of a results orientation that it may be difficult to discern when someone is doing it wrong. Balkin repeatedly implies that more is better, both regarding the number of modalities of constitutional interpretation and the kinds of history that are relevant to making constitutional arguments. Moreover, he repeatedly declares that “history is a resource and not a command.” But modality creep may make it more challenging for …

A Simple And Affordable Protocol To Assess Censer Seed Dispersal: First Confirmation Of The Mechanism In The Genus Solanum, Abigail J. Motter, Christopher T. Martine, Melody P. Sain

Faculty Journal Articles

The censer seed dispersal mechanism, whereby mature fruits are retained on plants and seeds dispersed by mechanical shaking, is among the most specialized wind-aided seed dispersal strategies employed by the flowering plants. An efficient, affordable, and easily repeatable protocol for determining whether a species uses this unusual mechanism of seed dispersal is lacking. Our focal species, Solanum tudununggae, is one of just two Solanum species (in a fleshy-fruited genus of ca. 1200 species) hypothesized to use this dispersal mechanism as a means to move seeds farther from parent plants than would gravity alone.

Cordell Young V. John Doe

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Redefining Smile In A Snap: An Interdisciplinary Approach Combining Orthodontics And Veneers For Esthetic Excellence And Improved Well-Being, Yonas A. Hendarto, Putu Lndra, Made D. Satyaputra, Ananto A. Alhasyimi, Francisco J. Vazquez-Santos

Journal of Dentomaxillofacial Science

Objective: Mild anterior crowding associated with a gummy smile often requires an interdisciplinary approach to achieve optimal aesthetic outcomes, especially when treatment time is limited. This report aims to present a synergistic orthodontic and prosthodontic strategy using clear aligners followed by veneer placement.

Case Report: A 23-year-old woman sought a rapid smile makeover before participating in a national beauty pageant. Clinical findings included mild maxillary anterior crowding and excessive gingival display, exacerbated by an unconscious habit of raising the upper lip during smiling. Orthodontic treatment included using aligners limited to the maxillary arch to maintain stable occlusion and meet the …

Algorithmic Management At Work: Collective Rights And Eu Regulatory Responses, Mariapaola Aimo, Laura Tebano

Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal

This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolving European regulatory framework concerning Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Management in the workplace, focusing on the protection of workers’ collective rights. It first examines the Artificial Intelligence Act, arguing that its product-oriented and risk-based approach inadequately addresses workplace power imbalances. Although employment-related AI is classified as “high risk,” the Artificial Intelligence Act merely grants workers’ representatives a right to information, without ensuring consultation, and reveals a democratic deficit in the implementation phase, where technical standards are shaped by private interests. We then argue that traditional information-and-consultation mechanisms offer limited protection and are …

Rafael Popote V. Lee Estock

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Joseph Riad V. Porsche Cars North America Inc

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Usa V. James Abrams

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

A Communication-Process-Centered (Cpc) Approach To Intercultural Communication Education, Yanrong (Yvonne) Chang, Dora E. Saavedra

Communication Faculty Publications

Purpose: In response to a call to seek renewed purpose and new conceptualizations for intercultural communication education (ICE) (Dervin and Tournebise, 2013), the purpose of this conceptual paper is to critiquee limited traditional models of ICE and to propose, explain and argue for a communication-process-centered (CPC) approach to the field. The proposed CPC framework emphasizes dynamic conceptualizations of culture, identity, and interaction as fluid processes rather than static traits.

Design/methodology/approach: The paper describes anticipated learning outcomes of the CPC approach and advocates for the use of ethnographic methods in classroom teaching. It provides practical ways for applying these methods …