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When Life Imitates Science Fiction

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Wednesday, January 07, 2004

When did science fiction and reality become indistinguishable? How have the writings of Ballard, Burroughs and others directed our lives and the technology around us? Steven Shaviro, author of Connected discusses life in a network society. Also: our series on the Mid-East, today focusing on the Arab media. Also, a 9/11 memorial is chosen, street vendors, and debating the Arab media.

Reflecting Absense

Andrea Bernstein WNYC Reporter and Martin Filler Architecture critic for the New Republic
on the announcement of the World Trade Center memorial designers

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Vend Over Backwards

Mitchell Duneier sociology professor at Princeton and the City University of New York Graduate Center, author, Sidewalk (Farrar Straus & Giroux; (January 2001)
on the plight of city vendors

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Revealed in Translation?

Rachel Fish director of the David Project's New York office
explains how she fought anti-Israel rhetoric
Hussein Ibish Communications Director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee on Israeli reaction to the Arab media and Itamar Marcus Director Palestinian ...

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Connect-i-cut

Steven Shaviro Author, Professor of Film Studies and English, University of Washington Connected or What It Means to Live in a Network Society, University Of Minnesota Press, 2003
on the merge between reality and science fiction

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