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Web videos play a crucial role in the political protests that mobilize today‘s civil society. Spread and shared across social media, they draw attention to a variety of issues, serve as evidence and, ultimately, as a call to action. In the attempt to win viewers’ hearts and minds, various new film forms and practices are emerging in the networked spaces of the Web 2.0. These new types of videos actively engage their audience by inviting participation, and thus contribute to the formation of counterpublics and social movements. However, the power of web videos remains a contentious issue, as it is often associated with problems such as misuse, deception, ‘clicktivism‘ or surveillance. The conference will bring together international researchers and activists to discuss the political aesthetics, strategies, and impact of these new lm forms – in short, the power of contemporary activist videos.For longer version please see www.videoactivism.net, The Power of Activist Videos, conference, ICI Berlin, 12–13 May 2017

Web videos play a crucial role in the political protests that mobilize today‘s civil society. Spread and shared across social media, they draw attention to a variety of issues, serve as evidence and, ultimately, as a call to action. In the attempt to win viewers’ hearts and minds, various new film forms and practices are emerging in the networked spaces of the Web 2.0. These new types of videos actively engage their audience by inviting participation, and thus contribute to the formation of counterpublics and social movements. However, the power of web videos remains a contentious issue, as it is often associated with problems such as misuse, deception, ‘clicktivism‘ or surveillance. The conference will bring together international researchers and activists to discuss the political aesthetics, strategies, and impact of these new lm forms – in short, the power of contemporary activist videos.For longer version please see www.videoactivism.net, The Power of Activist Videos, conference, ICI Berlin, 12–13 May 2017

An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today. What does it mean to be a liberal in neoliberal times? This collection of short essays attempts to show how liberals and the wider concept of liberalism remain relevant in what many perceive to be a highly illiberal age. Liberalism in the broader sense revolves around tolerance, progress, humanitarianism, objectivity, reason, democracy, and human rights. Liberalism's emphasis on individual rights opened a theoretical pathway to neoliberalism, through private property, a classically minimal liberal state, and the efficiency of “free markets.” In practice, neoliberalism is associated less with the economic deregulation championed by its advocates than the re-regulation of the economy to protect financial capital. Liberalism in Neoliberal Times engages with the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism, viewing it in relation to four central areas of public life: human rights, ethnicity and gender, education, and the media. The contributors explore the transformations in as well as the transformative aspects of liberalism and highlight both its liberating and limiting capacities.

An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today. What does it mean to be a liberal in neoliberal times? This collection of short essays attempts to show how liberals and the wider concept of liberalism remain relevant in what many perceive to be a highly illiberal age. Liberalism in the broader sense revolves around tolerance, progress, humanitarianism, objectivity, reason, democracy, and human rights. Liberalism's emphasis on individual rights opened a theoretical pathway to neoliberalism, through private property, a classically minimal liberal state, and the efficiency of “free markets.” In practice, neoliberalism is associated less with the economic deregulation championed by its advocates than the re-regulation of the economy to protect financial capital. Liberalism in Neoliberal Times engages with the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism, viewing it in relation to four central areas of public life: human rights, ethnicity and gender, education, and the media. The contributors explore the transformations in as well as the transformative aspects of liberalism and highlight both its liberating and limiting capacities.

An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today. What does it mean to be a liberal in neoliberal times? This collection of short essays attempts to show how liberals and the wider concept of liberalism remain relevant in what many perceive to be a highly illiberal age. Liberalism in the broader sense revolves around tolerance, progress, humanitarianism, objectivity, reason, democracy, and human rights. Liberalism's emphasis on individual rights opened a theoretical pathway to neoliberalism, through private property, a classically minimal liberal state, and the efficiency of “free markets.” In practice, neoliberalism is associated less with the economic deregulation championed by its advocates than the re-regulation of the economy to protect financial capital. Liberalism in Neoliberal Times engages with the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism, viewing it in relation to four central areas of public life: human rights, ethnicity and gender, education, and the media. The contributors explore the transformations in as well as the transformative aspects of liberalism and highlight both its liberating and limiting capacities.

This project argues that British women writers of the 1930s and 1940s adapted state-supported discourses of food to critique contemporary theories of embodiment. To support total war—the First and Second World Wars as well as wars of colonial aggression—and to sustain empire, the British government managed the consumption, production, and materiality of food on the home front. This alimentary shift was discursively rendered and enforced through what I refer to as a "rhetoric of rationing", which shaped the infant feeding manuals, food propaganda, imperial advertising, and journalism in circulation. The writers in this study, Betty Miller, Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, and Virginia Woolf, expose the "how to" didacticism of such tracts as supporting a biopolitical control of the state through the regulation of life. The "rhetoric of rationing" emerges as a restraint of the female body in order to homogenize the British body politic. Through chapters that move from a focus on infant feeding and meal rituals, to gustatory taste, to hunger, to waste, this dissertation charts how women writers recast state-supported discourses of food ideologically geared towards women. The first two chapters, on Betty Miller and Elizabeth Bowen, engage with narratives of ingestion—of infant feeding and taste—while the second two chapters, on Jean Rhys and Virginia Woolf, engage with narratives of expulsion—of asceticism and waste. Their reconceiving of the "rhetoric of rationing" resists popular conceptions of the body, those related to theories of eugenics, involuntary memory, imperial hunger, and modern waste. By exposing the instability of matter and affect as it pertains to food and food discourses, these writers challenge biopolitical control and imagine alternative forms of life.

Marxist approaches to power focus on its relation to class domination in capitalist societies. Power is linked to class relations in economics, politics and ideology. In capitalist social formations, the state is considered to be particularly important in securing the conditions for economic class domination. Marxists are also interested in why dominated classes seem to accept (or fail to recognize) their oppression; so they address issues of resistance and strategies to bring about radical change. Much recent Marxist analysis also aims to show how class power is dispersed throughout society, in order to avoid economic reductionism. This chapter summarizes the main trends in contemporary Marxism and identifies some significant spatio-temporal aspects of class domination. It also assesses briefly the disadvantages of Marxism as a sociological analysis of power. These include its neglect of forms of social domination that are not directly related to class; a tendency to overemphasize the coherence of class domination; the continuing problem of economic reductionism; and the opposite danger of a voluntaristic account of resistance to capitalism.

Bldg #: 266; Name(s): Health Sciences and Services Building, Health Sciences Center; Function(s): Health sciences center; Completed: 6/6/89; Architect: Holmes, Sabatini, Smith, & Eeds; UNM Style: --; Preservation Listing: --. Front entrance seen across lawn with trees in bloom.

Bldg #: 206; Name(s): North Golf Course; Function(s): Golf Course; Completed: 1952; Architect: William H. Tucker, Meem, Zehner, Holien, & Associates; UNM Style: Pueblo; Preservation Listing: --. Wooden fence slat and rear of clubhouse.

Bldg #: 48; Name(s): Dane Smith Hall; Function(s): classrooms; Completed: 1996; Architect Custer-Basarich, LTD.; Principal architect: Patrick Affholter under construction. Looking down unfinished ramp. Wrought iron railing, red wheelbarrow, construction workers on scaffolding, blue tarp, and yellow crane.

Looking northeast from corner of Yale Boulevard and Las Lomas Road at Air Force ROTC Aerospace Studies building. Turquoise and black building sign on lawn, trees, flagpole, and bushes. Behind building at left of frame: cars parked in parking lot and Naval Sciences Building.

Astrological Observatory on North Campus, completed in 1956, tree, electric pole, parking lot, and bushes. West Mesa in background.

White-painted anchor on blue-painted concrete slab surrounded by gravel on front lawn of Bldg #: 151; Name(s): Naval Sciences Building, ROTC; Function(s): Naval ROTC; Completed: 1941; Architect: John Gaw Meem; UNM Style: Spanish-Pueblo Revival Phase II A. White fence made of metal poles and chains, flagstone walkway, flag pole, and tree limbs visible overhead.

Turquoise and black building sign on lawn in front of Bldg #: 151; Name(s): Naval Sciences Building, ROTC; Function(s): Naval ROTC; Completed: 1941; Architect: John Gaw Meem; UNM Style: Spanish-Pueblo Revival Phase II A. White fence made of metal poles and chains, Twp white-painted anchors, flagstone walkway, flag pole, and cottonwood trees. Parking lot with parked cars and rear of Air Force ROTC building visible at top right hand corner of frame.

Bldg #: 48; Name(s): Dane Smith Hall; Function(s): classrooms; Completed: 1996; Architect Custer-Basarich, LTD.; Principal architect: Patrick Affholter under construction. Metal framework of staircase, red and white safety pennants, bags of concrete on lowest level on stairs, and sawhorse with board on top in foreground.

Looking east at turquoise front doors of Bldg #: 151; Name(s): Naval Sciences Building, ROTC; Function(s): Naval ROTC; Completed: 1941; Architect: John Gaw Meem; UNM Style: Spanish-Pueblo Revival Phase II A. Top crossbar of white anchor on lawn, white fence made of metal poles and chains, flagstone walkway, flag pole, and tree limbs visible overhead.

Facility Planning Building; two-storied building with light brown stucco and red decorative tiles between second story windows. View from Lomas Boulevard of turquoise and black building sign, cottonwood trees, evergreen trees, glass brick decorations on front of building, low stuccoed wall with brown wooden gate, ivy growing on building, front doors, light fixtures, bushes, sidewalks, and grass.

Building #301; looking down from bleachers at field and opposite set of bleachers, mesa and Sandia mountains in background.

Lobo Baseball field, view of bleachers and dugout.

Bldg #: 206; Name(s): North Golf Course; Function(s): Golf Course; Completed: 1952; Architect: William H. Tucker, Meem, Zehner, Holien, & Associates; UNM Style: Pueblo; Preservation Listing: --. Looking west at a golfer with clubs outside of clubhouse, parked golf carts, flag flying at half-mast, Children's Psychiatric Hospital in background.

Building #: 308; completed 1998; window with red Lobo design and reflection of lettering on front of L.F. "Tow" Diehm Athletic Facility.

Building #: 308; completed 1998; tree and grass and front entrance of L.F. "Tow" Diehm Athletic Facility with two cherry pickers.

Looking through fences of South Campus tennis courts.

Lobo Baseball field, University Arena "The Pit," in the background.

Bldg #:302; Name(s): The Pit; Function(s): Basketball Arena; Completed: 0/12/67; Architect: Joe Boehning; UNM Style: -; Preservation Listing: --. View of northeast corner of building looking northwest across Avenida Cesar Chavez at South Campus buildings on hill.

Building #: 308; completed 1998; front entrance of L.F. "Tow" Diehm Athletic Facility with two cherry pickers.

Building #301; view from parking lot of back of back of seating structure showing stairways.

Bldg #: 206; Name(s): North Golf Course; Function(s): Golf Course; Completed: 1952; Architect: William H. Tucker, Meem, Zehner, Holien, & Associates; UNM Style: Pueblo; Preservation Listing: --. View of greens and cottonwood trees.

Building #301; ticket booth. Red metal railing.

Bleachers for the UNM running track and soccer field on South Campus.

Bldg #:302; Name(s): The Pit; Function(s): Basketball Arena; Completed: 0/12/67; Architect: Joe Boehning; UNM Style: -; Preservation Listing: --. Sign in front of building reads "UNM Arena, Lobo Basketball, Mc David Lounge."

Building #301; view from parking lot at distant scoreboard, back of near scoreboard, and press boxes.

Building #301; turquoise and black sign which reads "The University of New Mexico; University Stadium; 301," parking lot, back of scoreboard, and press boxes.

NM State Health Laboratory building, decorative red metal piping and sign which reads "State of New Mexico, Department of Health Scientific Laboratory Division" in front.

NM State Health Laboratory seen with views of landscaping and decorative red metal piping in front of building.

UNM running track and soccer field on South Campus with bleachers in background.

Looking north across Camino de Salud at sign which reads "UNM Hospital west entrance, patient and visitor parking," back of Bldg #249; Name: Novitski Hall; Function: Dental programs; Completed: 1978; Architect: Holmes & Gianinni, and two other buildings.

Looking east into channel, parking garage on right side of frame, other buildings.

NM State Health Laboratory building, decorative red metal piping and sign which reads "NM Department of Agriculture Division of Veterinary Diagnostic Services" in front; in background behind bare trees, bldg #: 248; Name(s): Family Practice Center; Function(s): Family practice center; Completed: 1977; Architect: Dale Crawford & Associates; UNM Style: --; Preservation Listing: -- .

Bldg #: 206; Name(s): North Golf Course; Function(s): Golf Course; Completed: 1952; Architect: William H. Tucker, Meem, Zehner, Holien, & Associates; UNM Style: Pueblo; Preservation Listing: --. Looking over wooden fence at Golf Course clubhouse, flag on pole at half mast, and rear of Bratton Hall.

Close-up view of Lifeguard emergency transport helicopter parked on top of UNM Hospital, bldg #: 235; Name(s): Bernalillo County - Indian Hospital (BC-I); Bernalillo County Medical Center (BCMC); University of New Mexico Medical Center; University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH); Function(s): Hospital, treatment facility; Completed: 10/15/54; Architect: Ferguson & Stevens; UNM Style: --; Preservation Listing: --.