Farm to Robot to Table Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food Movement, first opposed McDonald’s opening in Italy by handing out plates of penne pasta to protesters. According to Alison Leitch, the Slow Food Movement is “an international consumer movement dedicated to the protection of ‘endangered foods'” (437). Not only does the Slow Food Movement seek … [Read more...]
Case Study for 10/25: The Slow Food Movement & The Food Industrial Complex
The Slow Food movement originally began in Italy in 1989. Representing not just a shift in the production of food, Italians wished to hold on to their cultural values of food. Slow food means everything from production to consumption, an idea that most developed countries are less in touch with than developing countries. Where developed countries must focus their food intake … [Read more...]
HBO vs. Netflix: The Future of HBO and HBO Now
HBO to Netflix The speculation around Viacom's disconcerting performance detailed in "Viacom is Having a Midlife Crisis" by Felix Gillette was especially eye-opening in relation to mass media and how I think about TV/entertainment today. I don't really watch TV or any of the "popular" networks under Viacom's umbrella. However, I do occasionally watch Friday Night Lights and … [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...]
Developing a Global Consciousness in the Absence of Nation-States
One of the most defining features of the world today is how interconnected we are. The global world is more familiar to us now than it has even been. However, there is some growing concern over the nature of human governance and our relation to the entire world. This is especially in reference to the citizenship of a nation-state. In "World Citizenship Defined" we see an … [Read more...]
