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Failure in the field : Article : Nature - 0 views

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shared by Daniel Elliott on 12 Dec 08 - Cached
  • The immediate problems with the Human Terrain System can be traced to BAE Systems, the military contractor based in Rockville, Maryland, that screens potential employees
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Human Terrain System and the Minerva Project? - 4 views

started by Daniel Elliott on 11 Dec 08 no follow-up yet
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    #1 Daniel Elliott on 11 Dec 08
     
    How about some good links to articles, blogs, etc. focused on the Pentagon's Project Minerva and/or M. McFate's HTS project in Iraq..
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Althusserian Ideology - 1 views

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shared by Daniel Elliott on 27 Nov 08 - Cached
  • With the rise of industrialization, urbanization, mass culture and public institutions, intellectuals began to consider the influence of these phenomena in shaping the individual personality, and the recognition that identity is socially dependent gained acceptance.
  • Many of these thinkers study the concept of subjectivity or the belief that identity is socially constructed and that it is formed in relation to dominant beliefs, values and norms known as ideology.
  • Althusser was the first cultural theorist concerned with ideology to put the subject at the center of his research (Chandler 181).
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  • Regardless of our willingness to take on these subject positions, Althusser maintained that we are unaware of the extent to which they determine our thoughts, behaviour and relations to others (Smith 54).
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