*** Image 1 Source: Iris Huang, @irisspace Image 2 Source: Iris Huang, @irisspace Image 3 Source: Carol Lan, @carolbluelan For more on: visual rhetoric Hariman, Robert, and John Louis Lucaites. No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. Chicago, Ill.: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011. Lee, Eunji, Jung-Ah Lee, Jang Ho Moon, … [Read more...]
US military intervention in Colombia and the Philippines
US interventionism was one of the most impactful foreign policies in the 20th century in which the United States government, in an effort to contain communism, interfered with the internal politics of various nations around the world. Certain social movements or groups such as the Taliban or the Hmong were sponsored and funded by the United States since they helped advance the … [Read more...]
IT, Cultural Creation or English Hegemony
The chapter that i read for today was Global/Indian Cultural Politics in the IT Workplace written by Smitha Radhakrishnan. In this chapter Radhakrishnan focuses on the idea of “The Global” a new kind of corporate culture “that is separate from either Indian culture or Western culture” (Blackwell 2015:470). The global is also indicative of the certain … [Read more...]
Sid Sriram: “A cocktail of Indian and Western influences”
Sid Sriram is an American-Indian jazz and blues artist. At the age of three, he began learning Carnatic music from his mother at her institution in San Francisco, then trained under Padmabushan Sri PS Narayanaswamy in 2002. In 2008, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and honed in on R&B, Blues, Jazz, and Gospel music. The Fader praises Sriram’s ability to … [Read more...]
