June 2009
1 post
Dudeism... →
November 2007
1 post
whois Eric Avery?
I was surfin’, listening to Jane’s with M., and I found Eric Avery’s blog here. Eric was co-creator and bassist in Jane’s addiction
October 2007
1 post
Worrisome
From cocaine to plutonium: mafia clan accused of trafficking nuclear waste Article here
September 2007
1 post
Web 2.0 in the context of Development
It’s worthy read this blog :) http://mmcnairnay.wordpress.com/
August 2007
2 posts
Italian coherence
Italian contribution to the fight against global poverty: what’s going on? The 2nd report by ActionAid has been recently released. The title is “Italy and the fight against world poverty”, and is available here.
Yochai Benkler
You can download The wealth of Networks here. The translation in Italian is available here.
July 2007
2 posts
“Ciò che cerchiamo nella letteratura non è la realtà, ma un’epifania della...”
– Azar Nafisi, Leggere Lolita a Teheran
The world’s World Bank problem
Robert Wade’s article on OpenDemocracy.net focuses on a big question, again: Does the world need the World Bank?
June 2007
2 posts
Facebook si, Facebook no
I was considering to quit… not smoking, but posting on Facebook… Last Lebowskiana’s web addiction… Let’s read this article, Facing up to Facebook fears Internet law professor Michael Geist says attempts to block social media sites...
Alfred Chandler (15 Sep.1918 - 09 May 2007)
Alfred Chandler died on May 9 in Cambridge, Mass. Chandler’s famous book, “The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business” (1977), won the Pulitzer Price for history and Columbia University’s prestigious Bancroft Prize . His thesis was that managers, functioning as a “visible hand,” had replaced the “invisible hand” of Adam Smith’s free market in allocating...
May 2007
10 posts
Update
At times, my worries grow in an exponential manner. The point in time at which the thesis’ draft must be completed is arriving, and I feel like in hostage. Is it possible that, even if I’m in the 3rd year of my doctoral studies, I feel still not well-focused on my research question? My visit to Warwick is almost over… Many factors are seriously contributing to reduce my level of...
A Russian diary by Anna
Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow in October 2006. She was the thirteenth journalist to be killed in a contract style killing since Putin came to power in 2000. A Russian diary is her last book, the one she had recently completed. The book is full of interviews of people whose lives have been devastated by Putins policies, including the mothers of children who died in the Beslan siege,...
9th of June: George in Rome, Francesca in Warwick
George W.Bush is coming to Italy on the 9th of June. That day I won’t be in Rome, I will be in Warwick trying to end the draft of my doctoral thesis, due to my Italian supervisor the 20th of June. Anyway I post some links on the visit of the US president. 9th of June everyone in Rome for No Bush No War Day Contro Bush il 9 giugno a Roma Last but not least, that day will be also my...
Edu-factory. Conflicts and transformations of the... →
Post-Wolfowitz: what's the role of Europe? →
(courtesy of Financial Times)
Wolfowitz resigns!!!
Let’s have a look here
A good article by David Warsh →
Beirut... senza parole... →
non perdeteveliiii
Sandra Braman on line!
I didn’t go to the seminar at OII ‘cause I had an appointment with my supervisor in Warwick. But the seminar’s video is on line! Thanks to the Staff of the Oxford Internet Institute.Information, Policy, and Power in the Informational State
Blair & Sarkozy
Nicholas Sarkozy ha vinto le elezioni e Blair si congratula su Downing St., il channel su YouTube. C’è ancheun’altra versione in francese, ma i commenti sono disabilitati…
April 2007
2 posts
Top story: Wolf & Shaha
Il salario di Shaha Riza, partner del presidente della World Bank Wolfowitz, è sotto osservazione. Wolf è under attack, lo Staff dell’organizzazione chiede le sue dimissioni. La crociata anti-corruzione subisce un grave colpo. Il Financial Times aveva rivelato il coinvolgimento di Wolf in questo brutto affare. Sembra che il presidente abbia ordinato l’approvazione di un aumento...
The unflappable traveller
John Cassidy sul New Yorker offre un ritratto del presidente della World Bank. Riporto qualche stralcio tradotto: La World Bank impiega più di tredicimila persone in più di cento paesi e distribuisce in prestito a nazioni povere e a medio reddito una cifra di venticinque miliardi di dollari. Quando Wolf esamina i programmi della Banca spesso visita i siti religiosi e altri monumenti. A questo...
March 2007
17 posts
My supervisor @Università degli studi di Salerno →
My supervisor @Warwick Business School →
Geert's blog (net critique) →
Interessante il blog di Lovink. Si consiglia lettura…
“With Chungking [sic] I just dived in. It was like a student film. We...”
– Wong Kar-Wai, CinemaScope, Winter 2000
Man hangs himself live on internet chatroom →
In West Midlands c’è chi assiste ai suicidi in diretta…
Segnalibro
Majiid Tehranian, Sandra Braman, Vincent Mosco, ancora Hamelink… e chi altri? Un certo McPhail…
Test your Knowledge (by World Bank) →
Quanto ne sai a proposito di World Development Report 2007?
Whitney's gone
Hey, ma la canzone di Carole King - You’ve got a friend - le andava dedicata! Anche se ho scoperto che partire da Birmingham per Toronto costa 50 sterline! I will take in consideration…
La ricerca improbabile... →
Banca Mondiale in Mali
Aspetto di vedere Bamako del mauritano Sissako. Nel frattempo qui c’è un bell’articolo sulla sua filmografia.
Cees J.Hamelink
E’ alquanto datato questo testo, ma sembra piuttosto utile. Ai tempi lo utilizzai e saccheggiai per la tesi di laurea e adesso con la conclusione del dottorato alle porte me lo sono ritrovato mentre cercavo di dar forma alla prima sezione della tesi. Il titolo? The Politics of World Communication, Sage Publications 1994
Culture & Power
Qualche appunto sulla sociologia della sociologia, come pensata da Bourdieu, o reflexivity… David Swartz, Culture & power. The sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, The University of Chigago Press, Chicago and London, 1997.
Continental Drift →
The routine
Dopo aver cenato a base di dumplings, creati ad arte dai coinquilini cinesi, ho visto The routine. La giornata si è dunque conclusa degnamente. Dopo aver scritto e tradotto per un pò di ore, mi sono ritrovata nel bel mezzo di una contesa. In mattinata, avevo deciso di parlare alla mia coinquilina riguardo ad alcune regole di convivenza… Purtroppo dopo averla incontrata ed aver ascoltato le...
Thai Prawn Cracker
In attesa del U8 International Development Summit che si svolgerà domani, ho trascorso le ultime giornate al Modern Records Centre a consultare documenti, precedenti tesi di dottorato sulla World Bank, nel tentativo di riassemblare il materiale in mio possesso. Writing up a parte, ho ancora molto da collect… La mancanza di primary data mi ossessiona e sono sempre lì a perfezionare...