Ulises Mejias
Biographic Data
| ID | 7577581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulises Mejias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulises |
| FAMILY NAME | Mejias |
| SIGNATURE | MEJIAS U |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York at Oswego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Uses and Abuses of the Conquista
Spanish people can detect my Mexican accent as soon as I open my mouth, and it’s interesting to see their reactions during my travels through that country. Most Spaniards are kind and curious. But I do remember a taxi driver who convivially told me that, to be sure, Spain had done horrible things to Mexico, but that I should still think of Spain like a father — a drunk and abusive father, in his words, but a father nonetheless. One can take such …
Analyzing the Platform Economy – Feudalism, Medievalism and Colonialism as Useful Frameworks
The platform economy challenges existing economic systems, social interactions and participation as well as the very foundation of democracy. As data is replacing labor as the central economic good, economy, society, class structures and democracy might change fundamentally. Or we might experience old wine on new bottles. Karl Marx famously said that history tends to repeat itself, first as comedy, later as tragedy. In this panel we ask, whether …
Re–approaching Nearness
An interesting transposition has happened. It used to be that the farther things were, the more difficult it was to know them. Today, thanks to communication technologies, we often develop relationships with what is far at the expense of what is immediately around us. This paper explores the increased irrelevancy that the near acquires through our use of online technologies. But by proposing a model of praxis that incorporates our actions online …
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Re–approaching Nearness
An interesting transposition has happened. It used to be that the farther things were, the more difficult it was to know them. Today, thanks to communication technologies, we often develop relationships with what is far at the expense of what is immediately around us. This paper explores the increased irrelevancy that the near acquires through our use of online technologies. But by proposing a model of praxis that incorporates our actions online …
Analyzing the Platform Economy – Feudalism, Medievalism and Colonialism as Useful Frameworks
The platform economy challenges existing economic systems, social interactions and participation as well as the very foundation of democracy. As data is replacing labor as the central economic good, economy, society, class structures and democracy might change fundamentally. Or we might experience old wine on new bottles. Karl Marx famously said that history tends to repeat itself, first as comedy, later as tragedy. In this panel we ask, whether …
Uses and Abuses of the Conquista
Spanish people can detect my Mexican accent as soon as I open my mouth, and it’s interesting to see their reactions during my travels through that country. Most Spaniards are kind and curious. But I do remember a taxi driver who convivially told me that, to be sure, Spain had done horrible things to Mexico, but that I should still think of Spain like a father — a drunk and abusive father, in his words, but a father nonetheless. One can take such …
Political science (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Data science (1 work) · Digital Games and Media (1 work) · Economic Theory and Institutions (1 work) · Economic Theory and Policy (1 work) · Economics (1 work)