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That's President Bush '41, mind you. The National Archive announced today that more than 254,000 pages of presidential records will be available for the public to look at beginning next Monday at the Reagan library in Simi Valley, CA and the GWHB library in Houston, Texas. The archive notes that these records "were still pending with the George W. Bush
Administration as of January 20, 2009," took only two months to clear the review process established by President Obama's executive order 13849. Among the records include 13,000 pages of declassified memos on foreign policy topics as well as many presidential briefings.

That's President Bush '41, mind you. The National Archive announced today that more than 254,000 pages of presidential records will be available for the public to look at beginning next Monday at the Reagan library in Simi Valley, CA and the GWHB library in Houston, Texas. The archive notes that these records "were still pending with the George W. Bush
Administration as of January 20, 2009," took only two months to clear the review process established by President Obama's executive order 13849. Among the records include 13,000 pages of declassified memos on foreign policy topics as well as many presidential briefings.

The trailer for Duncan Jones’s Moon looks terrific, like a cross between 2001, Solaris, The Shining, and Primer. The poster is pretty good too.

One of the most productive things to come out of the University of Virginia conference was some rapproachment between political economy (which dominates the current media reform movement) and cultural studies (which has been much more closely associated with the participatory culture paradigm). The cliche is that political economy is all structure and no agency and cultural studies is all agency and no structure. We are, as Robert McChesney suggests, at a "critical juncture" because there are structures and constraints which could be locked down, resources that can be lost, and rich potentials which are fragile. In such a time, we need to look at both agency and structure and so we need to end the theoretical conflict in favor of identifying shared goals -- working together when we can, working separately but in parallel where our goals and tactics differ, but wasting little time on squabbles on the borders between fields.

One of the most productive things to come out of the University of Virginia conference was some rapproachment between political economy (which dominates the current media reform movement) and cultural studies (which has been much more closely associated with the participatory culture paradigm). The cliche is that political economy is all structure and no agency and cultural studies is all agency and no structure. We are, as Robert McChesney suggests, at a "critical juncture" because there are structures and constraints which could be locked down, resources that can be lost, and rich potentials which are fragile. In such a time, we need to look at both agency and structure and so we need to end the theoretical conflict in favor of identifying shared goals -- working together when we can, working separately but in parallel where our goals and tactics differ, but wasting little time on squabbles on the borders between fields.

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