empire or imperialism?

1汪晖 帝国的冲突，或帝国主义时代的冲突？－－《帝国的话语政治》座谈会上的发言 http://wen.org.cn/modules/article/view.article.php/1862

2 Samir Amin has written more than 30 books including Imperialism & Unequal Development, Specters of Capitalism: A Critique of Current Intellectual Fashions, Obsolescent Capitalism: Contemporary Politics and Global Disorder and The Liberal Virus. His memoirs were published in October 2006. also http://monthlyreview.org/2005/10/01/empire-and-multitude

3.Hannah Arendt, Imperialism [= Part II of The Origins of Totalitarianism. But her economics is bad.]

4. Mark Elvin, The Pattern of the Chinese Past [The first section has a very interesting discussion of the determinants of imperial size]

5. William McNeill [Excellent works, whose main flaw is a tactful silence about the American and even the Soviet empires.] The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force and Society since A.D. 1000 The Global Condition: Conquerors, Catastrophe and Community

6Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance 7 Daniel R. Headrick a) The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century

b) Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present [blurb]

8 Bernard Semmel, The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire: Theories of Imperialism from Adam Smith to Lenin 9 George Steinmetz, The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa

10 (For a quite annihilating leftist critique of Samir Amin, Arghiri Emmanuel, et al., see Alec Nove's The Economics of Feasibly Socialism.)

mostly from http://www.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/

soviet film

about stalinist Charisma The Abyss 1992 glasnost'films by Sergei Soloviev Assa (1988) The black rose 1990--- full title "black rose is an emblem of sadness, red rose is an emblem of love" The House under the starry sky (1988)

common places: mythologies of everyday life in Russia

Chekhov stories about banal domestic life "The Literature Teacher" romance between a young schoolteacher and a young girl banality "the little plump wife" and her "little fluffy cat" p53 "The last sentence pits 'conscious life' against family happiness, an opposition that will be at the center of modernist aesthetics and ethics."

common places: mythologies of everyday life in Russia Svetlana Boym

Harvard university Press 1994

Kitsch: The Anthology of Bad Taste ed. Gillo Dorfles 1969 Chernyshevsky and the age of realism: study in the semiotics of behavior, Irina Paperno 1989

Between Tsar and People: Educated society and the quest for public identity in late imperial Russia, eds. Edith W. Clowes etc.. 1991 (about Russian middle-class)

on the intelligentsia: Isaiah Berlin The Russian thinkers 1956 Richard Pipes, ed. Russian Intelligentsia 1961 Lev Gudkov, "Intelligenty i intellectualy" in Znamia 3/4, 1992, 203-220

on the making of a new soviet man see Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr., The positive hero in Russian literature 1975

Bolshevik Visions, ed. William Rosenberg 1990 (about soviet new city)

Montage and Modern Life ed Matthew Teitelbaum 1992 (about soviet construction of space and politics of montage)

For a historical description of revolutionary utopias, see Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution; Moisei Ginzburg, Style and Epoch 1982 For theory and comparative views on Utopia see Frank and Frizie Maneul, Utopian Thought in the Western world 1979

S. Frederick Starr, Melnikov: solo Architect in the mass society 1978

The body in Pain: the making and unmaking of the world 1985

Susan Stewart, On Longing: narratives of the miniature, the Gigantic, the souvenir, the collection 1984

Late Soviet Culture from Perestroika to Novostroika 1993

(bordom and domesticity) Cathy Popkin, The Pragmatics of Insignificance: Chekhov,Zoshchenko, Gogol 1993

Mario Praz, An illustrated history of interior decoration from Pompeii to Art Nouveau (London: Thames and Hudson, 1981)

Man Ray and Lee Miller

rayography solarization

Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China Fostering Talent Search the full text of this book Lisa M. Hoffman

In the post-Maoist era, China adopted a strategy for investing in the "quality" of its people—through education and training opportunities—that created talented labor. In her significant ethnographic study, Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China, Lisa Hoffman explains why the development of "human capital" is seen as fundamental for economic growth and national progress. She examines these new urban employees, who were deemed vital to the success of the global city in China, and who hoped for social mobility, a satisfying career, and perhaps a family. Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China addresses the emergence of this urban professional subject in Dalian, a port city in China. Hoffman identifies who these new professionals are, what choices they have made, and how they have remained closely connected with the nation—although not necessarily the Communist party—leading to a new social form she calls "Patriotic Professionalism." Hoffman contributes to the understanding of changing urban life in China while providing an analysis of the country's "late-socialist neoliberalism." In the process, she asks pressing questions about how such shifts impact cities, how individuals and families negotiate these changes, and how "choice" itself is a part of the subject formation process for these young professionals.

Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries

Gina Neff is an associate professor of communication at the University of Washington. She studies the contemporary economics of media production by examining the relationship between work and technology in both high-tech and media industries. Her book Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (MIT 2012) examines the risk and uncertainties borne by New York City’s new media pioneers during the first Internet boom.