@sarahljaffe If anyone paid for reporting on political economy, & I could get hired to do so, I'd be delighted. Instead, studying for bar.
I really really really want someone to lay out the political economy of the surveillance state. Much needed.
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@sarahljaffe I'd love to start a site that was all political economics, all the time, & wasn't as neoliberal/neocolonial as the Economist. -
@KMBTweets if I had money I would donate to this project. -
@sarahljaffe Hey, that's a start. :-D
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@sarahljaffe perhaps too philosophical but Foucault's lectures on biopolitics seem prescient. http://amzn.to/1a1INvd#gradschooltheory -
@sashacuerda yeah, I know what you mean. and I haven't read nearly as much Foucault as I should have. -
@sarahljaffe@sashacuerda Won't give you much in the way of political economy unfortunately. -
@pagalpanchi@sashacuerda nope, but also seems relevant/necessary. -
@sarahljaffe@pagalpanchi Well I guess it depends on how you define but political economy, but it's certainly not a contemporary analysis.
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@Toffleresque Yes, I've seen it. It's not what I mean.
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@sarahljaffe lots of money in that gov't-comtracted IT, for sure. -
@sarahljaffe easy. Fear --> need more protection --> fulfilled by contractors who find more terrorists --> fear ... -
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@sarahljaffe I really really really want someone to lay out the political economy of the surveillance state. Much needed. -
@DavidKaib@sarahljaffe Start with Charles Tilly and James Scott.
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@sarahljaffe all about gov contracts to private industry.#economicsofsurveillencestate -
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@sarahljaffe: I really really really want shttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/ political economy of surveillance state -
@sarahljaffe Is this a good start? A little old perhaps: http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html …
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