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Vodacom Superstars – Akon goes to the Congo
Given that Congo is back in the news, I’m reposting this piece I wrote for SSG Music in 2011, which I noticed is no longer available online. In my contemporaneous post on this blog “Congo, Coltan, and Colonialism,” I provide some more historical and political context that didn’t fit into this piece. Congo has been…
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Fetishism of Digital Commodities and Hidden Exploitation: the cases of Amazon and Apple
Wu Ming is a collective of anonymous Italian authors, a group that grew out of the Luther Blisset collective, known for the popular novel Q. Wu Ming have been active for over a decade now, releasing many novels collectively and individually, as well as co-writing the script to Lavorare con Lentezza (Working Slowly), a fantastic…
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Congo, Coltan, and Colonialism
by Joseph Sannicandro Joseph.Sannicandro@gmail.com As entertainment obessed consumers, we rarely ever think about where things come from, let alone the hidden costs of production. How is it that ethnic violence in central Africa has anything to do, causally, with my owning an iPhone or playing videogames? ——- The ravages of ethnic violence in the Congo,…
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