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		<title>Missing the Twitter Mark</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genghis Philip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This comic is hilarious. It&#8217;s also entirely wrong. No no. I really do get it. No one cares about your dog, your girlfriend&#8217;s favorite muffin, or which character you slept with in Mass Effect 2. I understand that that&#8217;s INCREDIBLY banal information. It&#8217;s boring and mundane and no single piece is useful in, really, any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoryschmucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2760371&amp;post=73&amp;subd=theoryschmucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transparency: An Introduction to Panopticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genghis Philip</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bentham]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before we can begin to understand transparency (or even really define it), we first need to understand disciplinary systems. I know, that connection makes no sense from the outset, but I promise it is crucially important. It will become abundantly clear in a moment, but why it’s a big deal to become transparent—to volunteer our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoryschmucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2760371&amp;post=52&amp;subd=theoryschmucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">I&#039;m. Watcheeeeng. Youuu.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">No, For Realsies. You can&#039;t avoid these in England.</media:title>
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		<title>California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban</title>
		<link>http://theoryschmucks.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/california-supreme-court-overturns-gay-marriage-ban/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 19:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Levine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[california]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Usually I try to provide information, analysis and criticism whenever I post, but I think this one&#8217;s worth posting all on its own: &#8220;The California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage,&#8221; ruling that &#8220;domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage.&#8221; It&#8217;s no mission accomplished, but it&#8217;s a strong step [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoryschmucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2760371&amp;post=51&amp;subd=theoryschmucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Shelf-Life of Marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 19:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Levine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good news: the divorce rate in America is falling. From its peak at 5.8 divorces per 1000 people in 1983, the divorce rate has gradually fallen to its most recent recorded statistic at 3.6 per 1000 in 2005. The bad news: 66% of marriages don&#8217;t survive to see their 25th anniversary. You might think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoryschmucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2760371&amp;post=50&amp;subd=theoryschmucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harold and Kumar: the 21st Century Grail</title>
		<link>http://theoryschmucks.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/harold-and-kumar-the-21st-century-grail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 18:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Levine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critical Theory]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[harold and kumar go to white castle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle was great.&#8221; You heard it a lot when it came out in 2004. You&#8217;ve heard it a lot recently, since the sequel came out last Friday. You&#8217;ve probably thought it a few times yourself &#8212; like, &#8220;Harold and Kumar was great.&#8221; Not to step on your toes, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoryschmucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2760371&amp;post=49&amp;subd=theoryschmucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Digital distribution: ready or not&#8230;!</title>
		<link>http://theoryschmucks.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/digital-distribution-ready-or-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Levine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critical Theory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple, Steam and Radiohead: what do they have in common? In the last few years, they&#8217;ve proved that digital distribution can be profitable for artists and publishers. The iTunes Store, for example, sells more music than anywhere else in America, including Wal-Mart, that parasitic vine of the retail tree. What caught my attention about that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoryschmucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2760371&amp;post=47&amp;subd=theoryschmucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Work Hard, Play Never</title>
		<link>http://theoryschmucks.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/work-hard-play-never-in-the-usa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Levine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a Center for Economic and Policy Research report: &#8220;In the absence of government standards, almost one in four Americans have no paid vacation and no paid holidays. According to government survey data, the average worker in the private sector in the United States receives only about nine days of paid vacation and about six [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoryschmucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2760371&amp;post=45&amp;subd=theoryschmucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With friends like these&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genghis Philip</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Critical Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barack obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clinton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca Traister]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sexism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This entry is written as a response to Rebecca Traister’s “Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!”1 Before you read my response, I highly suggest you go and read Traister’s entire Salon.com article: it is well-written and reasonably argued. I take issue with only a small portion of it, and wish to clarify other bits That [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoryschmucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2760371&amp;post=43&amp;subd=theoryschmucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scrabble Was Enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Levine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Game Theory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless you often browse online for kids&#8217; games, you&#8217;re unlikely to know about Bananagram, a Scrabble knock-off my mother bought the family for Christmas. She buys a new game every year, and usually it&#8217;s a card-game &#8212; something easy to learn, easy to play, and low-stress. This year, we didn&#8217;t get a card-game. We got [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoryschmucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2760371&amp;post=41&amp;subd=theoryschmucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gary Vaynerchuk and Identity Narratives</title>
		<link>http://theoryschmucks.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/gary-vaynerchuk-and-identity-narratives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genghis Philip</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critical Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Vaynerchuk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender Trouble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judith Butler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panprojection]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Performativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As my last entry makes clear, I’m a huge fan of Gary Vaynerchuk. Over at his vlog, a recent episode focuses on pigeonholing and identity—in G.V.’s case, how strange people find it that he is a Wine Guy as well as a Tech Guy. Gary says that we, as a society, feel that people “need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoryschmucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2760371&amp;post=42&amp;subd=theoryschmucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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