Regionalism has played a tremendous part in defining Canadian identity in a federation still divided along regional lines. Since the 1870s, Western Canada has often felt left aside from the politically powerful provinces of Ontario and Quebec: this federal lack of interest goes hand in hand with unf...
Author: Jolene Mendel American Public University Download PDF version The anthology television series Black Mirror (Netflix 2011–2023) has been praised for exploring ways that technology, left unregulated, can potentially affect our lives. While the series originated in the United Kingdom, it has be...
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the Department of German, Princeton University in collaboration with the FWF-funded project "Co-operative Art Techniques" at the Center for Cultural Studies, University of Graz. REGISTER HERE Driverless cars, social credit systems, or Twitter poetry bots: our...
The global COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates how states and companies mobilise new sociotechnical systems to track, trace, evaluate, and modulate the behaviour of citizens. This development illustrates an already-existing transformation of citizenship governance, which this article captures as the move...
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the Department of German, Princeton University (May 12-13, 2022) in cooperation with the Center for Cultural Studies, University of Graz. Deadline: December 1, 2021. Keynote by Joanna Zylinska, King's College London. Generative image by Aarati Akkapeddi. Prod...
This essay analyses the Chinese Social Credit System regarding its effects on governmentality. In that, it goes beyond the predominant discussion which focuses only on the coercive capabilities of the state. The Chinese Social Credit System reinforces power-relations within Chinese society, as indiv...
China has launched its "social credit system," hoping to increase social trust. But when value is calculated by opaque algorithms using vast amounts of personal data, what will happen to China, and indeed, what might it mean for the world?
China has launched its "social credit system," hoping to increase social trust. But when value is calculated by opaque algorithms using vast amounts of personal data, what will happen to China, and indeed, what might it mean for the world?
China has launched its "social credit system," hoping to increase social trust. But when value is calculated by opaque algorithms using vast amounts of personal data, what will happen to China, and indeed, what might it mean for the world?
This data collection contains seven files of Canadian census and election data, each corresponding to a particular electoral period when the number of constituencies was fixed. The data files include returns from the federal elections of 1908 and 1911 and data from the 1911 Census (Part 1), the elec...
This dissertation is an elaboration of presentations and articles on Friedrich List (Cf. Daastøl, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2007, and 2013 (forthcoming). This dissertation is a systematised and thematic study of Friedrich List’s economic approach, showing: 1) The fundamental importance of...
Les syndicats ouvriers ne peuvent pas rester étrangers à l'action politique. Celle-ci peut cependant prendre plusieurs formes. Dans cette étude l'auteur montre l'évolution de la CSN (autrefois CTCC) face à l'action politique.
L'histoire de la jurisprudence constitutionnelle canadienne, comparée à celle des Etats-Unis, illustre la faiblesse des lois et des structures juridiques aux prises avec la réalité historique et sociale. Sous l'apparence d'une lutte entre deux conceptions du régime fédéral, il y eut un conflit plus...