CAQTUS Collaborative - Info Age Insights
At a meet organized at the University of Texas- Pan American (UTPA) in August 2009, Professor A. Fuat FIRAT and associated scholars launched the CAQTUS Collaborative. The goal of CAQTUS Collaborative is to initiate, support, and critique studies of Culture, Business, Markets, Consumption, Organizations, Globalization, and related topics from poststructural and cognate perspectives. In addition to A. Fuat FIRAT, Nikhilesh Dholakia, Romain Laufer, Cory Wemberly, Alladi Venkatesh, Amy Wendling, Jorge Rocha, Salavador Trevino Martinez, and Mohammadali Zolfagharian attended the founding discussions of the CAQTUS Collaborative.
Among the initial topics that CAQTUS Collaborative will focus on are these:
- Paradoxes of Value, Contradictions of Capital
- Bureaucracy, Legitimacy, and Emancipatory Possibilities
- Cultures of Migration, Migrating Cultures
- Dynamic Reshaping of Needs, Wants, Desires
- Technology, Culture & Experience
- Cultural Embeddedness of Business Frameworks
- Rhetoric, Symbols, Strategies, Subversions
- Marketing as a Desire Machine
- Appropriation, Reappropriation, Exploitation, Liberation
SURVIVAL IN THE E-JUNGLE
Nik Dholakia
In the year 2000, the e-jungle transformed from a merry petting zoo into a snarly, nasty, scary, ferocious, predatory place.
But the basic infrastructure of global connectivity is in place and getting stronger. The underbrush and the canopy of the e-jungle are thickening, not thinning out.
Watch this space for ways to create salubrious lifespaces in the global e-jungle!
