<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all<div><br></div><div>Rick Maxwell here. I'm working on environmental impact of media technologies, including the workplace hazards associated with electronics production, use, and disposal/recycling--ie., digital play/labor is not a post-industrial endeavor; it has toxic roots, and theories on labor/fun/affective economies, etc must think through what that means. I've also written about labor in the global film and media business with Toby Miller (using the concept of the New International Division of Cultural Labor to talk about creative economies/labor markets from a political economic perspective). </div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, following up on recent posts I wanted to add another aspect of political economy that deserves more attention in our discussions of the military-industry-politics complex--namely, spectrum allocation and control. Check out <a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/osmhome.html">http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/osmhome.html</a> where you can download the Federal Strategic Spectrum Plan (March 2008). Not that fun to read, but you get the idea.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, and definitely more fun, I wanted to pitch Daniel Suarez's novel, Daemon. If you haven't read it already, it depicts some thought-provoking scenarios of game playing in a near-futuristic division of labor that resonates with much of the recent correspondence here in the idc space. .</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.thedaemon.com">http://www.thedaemon.com</a>/</div><div><br></div><div>best</div><div>rm</div><div><br></div>PS: enjoying David Golumbia's book a lot--thanks for writing it!<div><br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div>Richard Maxwell Tel: 718-997-2950</div><div>Chair and Professor </div><div>Media Studies Department </div><div>Queens College-CUNY <a href="http://qcpages.qc.edu/mediastudies/">http://qcpages.qc.edu/mediastudies/</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>