When the pharmaceutical firm Burroughs Wellcome chose to move its headquarters from suburban New York to North Carolina […]
Category Archive: post-industrial society
The Sound of Motor City: Ruin Porn, Popular Memory, and Protomartyr’s Vision of 21st Century Detroit
For the past couple years, one of the most vital sounds in music today has come out of […]
“Creative people have always gravitated to certain kinds of communities such as the Left Bank in Paris or […]
Eighty years ago, Clifford Odets wrote a play about striking taxi drivers in New York City. With too […]
Why do we play the shell game of the so-called “knowledge economy”? The reasons are many, and few […]
Education is a classic example of the confusion that arises when we reframe all different kinds of economic […]
What is information, though? And what is intellectual property? These questions bring us back to the issue of […]
“Here, and shockingly few other places in this country, men are paid to increase knowledge, to work toward […]