18 October 2006
Bruno Latour: ARTICLES
by jlesage
most of these works are in English and have full text version online
Movement by Grigorio Agamben
by jlesage
author traces concept of movement from Aristotle and asks us to "rethink the concept of movement and its relation to biopolitics."
The Center for American Places Online Gallery
by jlesage
photogallery of many US sites, seen with critical and loving eyes
Professor Stephen Graham - Writing & Publication
by jlesage
left urban geographer, with many online writings, often with an international focus
Imaginary Museum Projects - Tjebbe van Tijen
by jlesage & 1 other
innovative uses of image and text in a wide range of projects, many cultural and historical, to create an uniquely online museum-like experience
Praxis (e)Press - Contents
by jlesage
"critical works in theory and practice in several fields from a variety of different theoretical perspectives – including anarchist, anti-racist, environmentalist, feminist, marxist, postcolonial, poststructuralist, queer, situationist and socialist"
17 October 2006
Peter Murphy's Panoramic VR Weblog
by jlesage
panoramic pictures and social context; often witty in their detail
Urban Exploration - a photoset on Flickr
by jlesage
Construction sites, underground, abandoned buildings etc. All photo's were taken late at night as long exposures.
Sleepy City | urban photography
by jlesage & 1 other
photographically deconstructing the urban environment
PhD Project: Vernacular Creativity and New Media at creativity/machine
by jlesage
abstract for thesis that sparks some interesting trains of thought
RUT } Radical Urban Theory: writings on the modern urban condition
by jlesage
includes many essays by Mike Davis
howstuffismadeblog
by jlesage
manufacturing processes, labor conditions, and environmental issues involved in the production of contemporary goods
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
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
architechtural, music, media blog
by jlesage & 2 others
well written; of use to media people, especially for mise en scene, ways of attending to space
16 October 2006
Kate Bornstein's Blog for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws: The Voice Lesson
by jlesage
"Kate Bornstein in a slide show version of "The Voice Lesson," a trans-positive, feminist, funny look at how women are expected to talk." Makes good use of audio as unique medium for exposition of this content. Example of how audio slide show works.
09 October 2006
Semiotics for Beginners by Daniel Chandler
by jlesage
semiotics, like connotation, and metaphor and metonymy are terms that convey how images bear meaning; valuable for anyone interested in film and photography
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
