writings

Rosati, Clayton. (Forthcoming). "Walkout NYC!." ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies.

Rosati, Clayton and Mitchell, Don. (2009). “‘Live Monster: Black Friday and the All Consuming City.” Human Geography 2 (1).

Rosati, Clayton and Mitchell, Don. (2008). “It’s Black Friday and So the Wind Must Blow: Consumption, Culture, and the New City.” In Alejandro Mercado, Miriam Alfie and Graciela Martinez (Eds.) Encrucijadas, Encuentros y Divergencias en las Ciudades/Region de America del Norte. Centro de Estudios Sobre America del Norte, UNAM and Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana- Cuajimalpa, Mexico.

Rosati, Clayton. (2007). “MTV: 360o of the Industrial Production of Culture.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 32 (4): 556-575.

ABSTRACT:  A political economic analysis of mass media and culture is conspicuously absent in geography. The symbolic or textual emphasis of most materialist media theories presents media simply as a struggle over images, omitting space from the equation altogether, except in metaphorical terms. This paper presents a framework for understanding the conditions under which culture is increasingly produced by media corporations for the global accumulation of capital. The paper first discusses the importance of thinking about the production of culture as the ‘industrial production of culture’ and its relationship to the media as part of the capitalist division of labour. Second, it explores more fully the spatial and material limits to the industrial production of culture through mass media. Lastly, it uses MTV and its ‘360°’ initiative as a critical case study to describe the role of a particularly successful industrial cultural producer within the spatial division of labour, as an advertising platform for international marketing.

Rosati, Clayton. (2007). “Media Geographies: Towards a Spatial Politics of the Image.” Geography

Compass 32 (4): 556-575.

Mitchell, Don and Rosati, Clayton. (2006). "The Globalization of ‘Culture’: Geography and the Industrial Production of Culture.” In D. Conway and N. Heynen (Eds.) Globalization’s Contradictions: Geographies of Discipline, Destruction and Resistance? New York, Routledge.