commentary 
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798) Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of the state capitals
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792) Jazz Protest Music: The Freedom Now Suite
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782) Making Mothers of Fake Babies
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780) Debunking the "Eat Local" Myth
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773) The discourse of engineering needs to be expanded
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766) Facebook Viral Campaign
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764) Tracking the trackers: Unmasking wiki
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762) Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians
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761) The videogame based on the McDonald's production chain
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760) Plastic Bottles: Five minutes worth of consumption in North America
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751) Humanities: meaning, value, and significance
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744) The mystery of discourse is not order, but disorder, incoherence
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735) Yes Prime Minister: entertaining parody of the Australian Prime Minister
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733) Chernobyl Legacy: photographic essay with audio commentary
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731) Kingdom of Piracy: online, open work space to explore the free sharing of digital content
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724) A devout Christian is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else
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722) Regionalisation: Educational Reform in New Zealand
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718) Rip, Mix, Burn, Autolink
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698) Bodymouse: the potential of biomedical science?
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695) Jihad videos posted on YouTube website
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680) Bright: undermining the heterosexual love triangle in the heterosexual narrative
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677) Parody Through Recurring Motifs of Suspense and Clichés of Plot
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672) Symbolic Control Through Appropriation of Local Stories
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663) Citizen Reporting of the London Bombings
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613) New Zealand is not naive to the great cost of waging war
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602) art and design students look at surveillance
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596) Database of Virtual Art: a richly interlinked online repository
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588) Boal: the intervention of the art of tragedy
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574) (un)Smart-Mobs: Text-Messages Used to Incite Racial Violence at NSW's Cronulla beach
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567) Terra Nova: collaborative weblog about virtual worlds
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559) Diagnosing Iranian history in terms of European past
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546) Regulation Through Discourses/Practices
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529) the
War on Terror and other conservative catchphrases
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520) historical materialism: offering critical resources for the de-reification of capitalism
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519) ethics question satirising Australian Prime Minister
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518) industrialisation: pin making and the the division of labour
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506) Culture Jamming: Australian International University
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505) Culture Jamming the Forbes Global CEO Conference
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496) Enemy Image: where is the human tragedy?
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494) NICHT loschbares Feuer / Inextinguishable Fire
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490) Christian forces humiliating Muslims in their own heartland
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400) Heartfield: political commentary through photomontage
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350) Seven Up! series: glimpses of Britain's future
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331) Freire: answers to exploitation in photographs
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319) Escape from Woomera: videogame social commentary
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207) Social Inclusion and Exclusion
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199) Faces of the Fallen: photomosaic
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201) eugenics: forced sterilization
(73) urban theory: world systems
http://folksonomy.org.uk/?s=73
Utterance:
The idea of the world system arises out of neo-Marxist scholarship, particularly the work of Wallerstein ([Wallerstein, I.M. 1974. The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World Economy in the Sixteenth Century. New York: Academic Press], [Wallerstein, I.M. 1979. The Capitalist World Economy: Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press], [Wallerstein, I.M. 2000. 'Globalisation or the Age of Transition? A Long-Term View of the Trajectory of the World System'. International Sociology 15, 249-65]). For Wallerstein, the present world system emerged in the sixteenth century with the discovery by Europeans of the new world. This allowed the population of the European world to expand beyond its carrying capacity through importing resources to supplement those within the existing nations. This set in train a system of dependency and exploitation that led to the colonial expansion and the system of markets and dependencies shaping the world into 'core', semi-peripheral and peripheral nations. The core nations initially dominant were the maritime and later industrial powers of Europe; Britain, the Netherlands, Spain and France. The system was initally built around trade, within which the European powers explored and obtained commodities for sale in Europe. These included spices, silks, and new foods. The dominance of the core was secured through their wealth and their military and naval capacities. With the discovery of new worlds, migration then settlement occurred, firstly, of the Americas and later of Southern Africa and Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. One of the consequences of this migration was to create what some have called dominion capitalist societies (Armstrong, W. 1980. 'Land, Class, Colonialism: The Origins of Dominion Capitalism'. In New Zealand and the World (ed.) W.E. Willmott. Christchurch: University of Canterbury). What characterised this group of countries was their dependency on land-based production. The beef ranches of Argentina and the sheep farms of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand played a significant role in the chain of food production for the industrialising populations of Europe. A consequence of this particular pattern of production and its orientation to exporting has been a different pattern of urbanisation with cities being built on the coast and serving as entrepôt, transportation and service centres rather than bases for industrial production and attractors of rural domestic populations ([Mullins, P. 1981. 'Theoretical Perspectives on Australian Urbanisation: Material Components in the Reproduction of Australian Labour Power: Australian and New Zealand journal of Sociology 17, 56-76], [Berry, M. 1983, 'The Australian City in History: Critique and Renewal'. Urban Political Economy: The Australian Case (eds) L. Sandercock and M. Berry. Sydney: George Allen and Unwin], [Berry, M. 1984. 'Urbanisation and Accumulation: Australia's First Long Bom Revisited'. Conflict and Development (ed.) P. Williams. Sydney: George Allen and Unwin]; [Denoon, D. 1983. Settler Capitalism: The Dynamics of Dependent Development in the Southern Hemisphere. Oxford: Pergamon]). In Aotearoa/New Zealand, for example, it was not until the post-second-world-war period that the indigenous population shifted from being rural to urban based. In 1945, the distribution was 74 per cent rural and 26 per cent urban. By 1971, this had reversed to 71 per cent urban and 29 per cent rural (Thorns, D. and C. Sedgwick. 1997. Understanding Aotearoa. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press).
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©D Thorns (The Transformation of Cities. p. 81)
Image: King, Michael (1914). . Wellington, New Zealand: Alexander Turnbull Library [photograph]
Motivation:
Book: King, Michael. 1996 Maori: A Photographic and Social History, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND: Reed Books. 079000500X
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2) Futurist manifesto: War is beautiful
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