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The Sociological Imagination

The Sociological Imagination

Reading Capital Courses: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey – 2019 Edition A close reading of the text of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I in 12 video lectures by Professor David Harvey. Recorded at The People’s Forum in New York City in 2019. Links to the complete course: YouTube Playlist Podcast available on Spotify, iTunes, PodBean, and RSS. Course Materials: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey – 2007 Edition A close reading of the text of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I in 13 video lectures by Professor David Harvey. YouTube Playlist Subscribe to a course as a video or audio podcast: Help make this Capital v1 course accessible in other languages: join our translation project These lectures were the inspiration for the book: A Companion to Marx’s Capital published by Verso in 2010. Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 with David Harvey A close reading of the text of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume 2 (plus parts of Volume 3) in 12 video lectures by Professor David Harvey (2012). YouTube Playlist

:zenhabits xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/philfurn.html by Edgar Allan Poe (1840) In the internal decoration, if not in the external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme. The Italians have but little sentiment beyond marbles and colours. In France, "meliora probant, deteriora "sequuntur — the people are too much a race of gadabouts to maintain those household proprieties of which, indeed, they have a delicate appreciation, or at least the elements of a proper sense. How this happens, it is not difficult to see. To speak less abstractly. The people "will "imitate the nobles, and the result is a thorough diffusion of the proper feeling. There could be nothing more directly offensive to the eye of an artist than the interior of what is termed in the United States — that is to say, in Appallachia — a well-furnished apartment. Curtains are rarely well disposed, or well chosen in respect to other decorations. In the matter of glass, generally, we proceed upon false principles.

VentureBeat | Tech. People. Money. RETAIL RENAISSANCE English not your preferred language? Read this Trend Briefing in: Français 中文 Nederlands Türkçe Español Português Deutsch 한국어 September 2011 | No matter what consumer-driven industry you’re in, the latest developments in retail and shopping need to be on your radar. While traditional retail is facing serious and sometimes deserved challenges (Bland chains! RETAIL RENAISSANCE | Smart retailers are defying doom and gloom scenarios, as they realize that shopping in the real world will forever satisfy consumers’ deep rooted needs for human contact, for instant gratification, for the promise of (shared) experiences, for telling stories. Here are just four drivers behind RETAIL RENAISSANCE (there are many more, but we think you’ll get the point): OFF=ON: How the benefits of shopping online can now be had offline by consumers too. Extreme? 8 out of 10 consumers research purchases online. *Yes, consumers will continue to be in love with e-commerce too, of course: Just a few stats:

Political Arithmetick by Sir William Petty Sir William Petty Or a Discourse Concerning, The Extent and Value of Lands, People, Buildings: Husbandry, Manufacture, Commerce, Fishery, Artizans, Seamen, Soldiers; Publick Revenues, Interest, Taxes, Superlucration, Registries, Banks, Valuation of Men, Increasing of Seamen, of Militia's, Harbours, Situation, Shipping, Power at Sea, &c. As the same relates to every Country in general, but more particularly to the Territories of His Majesty of Great Britain, and his Neighbours of Holland, Zealand, and France . By Sir WILLIAM PETTY, Late Fellow of the Royal Society. London, Printed for Robert Clavel at the Peacock, and Hen. Mortlock at the Phoenix in St. Written: 3rd Edition, 1690Source: This e-text was prepared by Rod Hay and posted at the Archive for the History of Economic Thought, McMaster University, Canada, April 1, 1998. Foreword LET this Book Called Political Arithmetick, which was long since Writ by Sir William Petty deceased, be Printed. Preface. CHAP. Chap. Chap. Chap. Chap.

Abby Ohlheiser - The chosen ones Jena Lee Nardella, a young Evangelical American who runs a missionary non-profit, stood at the convention lectern and prayed for one of the men running for president. “May he know your presence, oh God, as he continues to serve as a leader of this nation, as a husband to Michelle and as a father to his daughters. Help him to see justice, love mercy and walk humbly with you.” Nardella was animated in front of a crowd which was excited, if perhaps a bit surprised, to see her. She was speaking to the Democratic National Convention, and praying for Obama, offering an opening prayer many would have thought would be more in place at the conservative Republican National Convention the week before. Nardella proceeded to offer a similar blessing to Obama’s rival Mitt Romney, perhaps a consolation for the apparent incongruity of a member of the Republicans’ traditional core demographic, evangelical Christians, participating in a Democratic event. Unfortunately I missed the fun.

Would you make your DNA and health data public if it may help cure disease? Jill Davies is Canuck One. The 39-year-old Toronto professional is the brave or, perhaps, foolhardy Canadian volunteer who will be first to go public this week in a project that will reveal the coded secrets hidden in her genome, the six billion chemical units of her DNA. They may include not only her susceptibility to diseases such as cancer but the levels of her propensities to alcoholism, depression or obesity, or even personality traits such as risk-taking. She will also provide the personal context required to make sense of the biological data – her age, height, weight; medical records; details about how she lives, works and plays; and even her photo if she’s game. This information – everything but her name and address – will be placed on an online database that will be open and available to anyone in the world. Ms. Is she out of her mind? Ms. It is a deliberate effort to jump-start what has proved to be the stalled genetic revolution. Ms.

Postcard from Rome We are currently witnessing a profound cultural implode which mirrors in its intensity the recent economic collapse. As the markets round on nations unable to sustain the debt brought upon them through bank bail-outs, and as the proverbial house of cards looks set to spectacularly fall once again, the arts assumes a familiar historical position. If, as Nietzsche wrote in On the Genealogy of Morality (1887), the first ever public pardon from a king to a subject was given as a show of strength, the patronage of the arts in times of prosperity is given as a tolerance of the useless, the frivolous, as a display of the confidence of an administration in its resistance to such whimsy. Yet, when that wealth has passed, when the administration is weak, the arts becomes a liability, the pardon is lifted and a reckoning begins, for it is in its uselessness, its detachment from reality that art’s political content resides. About the author Mike Watson is an art theorist and curator based in Italy.

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