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PUBLIC MARKS with tags culture & essays

18 October 2006

12 Principles of Web Writing and Design

by jlesage
from teacher Craig Stroupe, who has online many useful teaching tools across tech and cultural fields

lecturelinks of Mary Klages

by jlesage
extensive lecture notes on major cultural figures and critical concepts for course Modern Critical Thought

17 October 2006

multilingual web journal

by jlesage
check out sections to left on main page, and also writings listed under "correspondence"

translations of essays on activist art

by jlesage
On republicart, click on the words listed to the left under Discourse to see essays on topics such as: alternative economics, public sphere, precariousness, represenations, space of empire, art sabotage.

influence of Henri Lefevre

by jlesage
Stuart Elden traces influence of Lefevre's concept of space on contemporary theorists like Castells

TDR: "'You are here': the DNA of Performance"

by jlesage
essay by Diana Taylor about how traumatic events may be represented and possibly transmitted to those who did not experience them

Papers for the 06 International Symposium on Electronic Arts

by jlesage
many full text papers available, with theoretical reflections and case studies, across media

A Brief History of Parking

by jlesage
essay: "A Brief History of Parking: The Life and After-life of Paving the Planet" by Jane Holtz Kay; again, reading social geographers enhances media making, especially non-fiction

Mute

by jlesage
online magazine exploring "culture after the net"

16 October 2006

Reconstruction 6.3 (Summer 2006)

by jlesage
studies in contemporary culture, upcoming issues include Blogging; Threatening Bodies: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race; Eco-Cultures: Culture Studies and the Environment; Frontier and Film: Cultural Icons of American Cinema; Class, Culture and Public Int

15 October 2006

09 October 2006

jan van eyck . avantgarde film biopolitics

by jlesage
list of films and readings putting together a film series and discussions of biopolitics in a new and interesting way; complete texts of accompanying theoretical readings

screenonline

by jlesage & 1 other
"Screen" is the British Film Institute's major journal; here look at film and television headings for many short articles and resources about UK film/tv

Bright Lights Film Journal | Welcome!

by jlesage & 1 other
well designed web site, excellent essays, covers experimental and gay/lesbian work

06 October 2006

Jahn: PPP/Narratology

by jlesage
Manfred Jahn Narratology: A Guide to the Theory of Narrative

05 October 2006

Rob Shields | Publications

by jlesage
many full text essays on space, including online space

Carnival of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

by jlesage
accumulation of blog entries on important postcolonial theorist

Cultural Studies Central

by jlesage
last updated, 2002; a plan and partial execution of a clearinghouse, discussion formum, journal

critcrim.org

by jlesage
Essay summarizing differences between modernist and postmodernist thought, useful for grad students, those who want to catch up quickly.

Theorizing in real time: hyperaesthetics for the technoculture

by jlesage
"As bad as bad media aesthetics are when static, they will worsen as they become interactive. It is not enough to struggle towards hypermedia: we need to develop a hyperaesthetic."