November 2006
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by jlesage
Andrew Ross: “Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property” (American Quarterly, 58:3, 2006).
Syllabus - SOC 4391 - Social Theory
by jlesage
value of the course outline is that there are links to chapters of most classics in social theory, reproduced as full text chapters and extensive excerpts
The geopolitics of knowledge and the colonial difference
by jlesage
by Walter Mignolo; "'modernity' is not a strictly European but a planetary phenomenon to which the "excluded barbarians" have contributed, although their contribution has not been acknowledged."
Place: Cultural, Disability, Ethnic, Media, Postcolonial, Race Studies
by jlesage
huge multi-page database of links on space and place in cultural geography as applicable to interdisciplinary studies
"The Mirror and the Veil: An Overview of American Online Diaries and Blogs"
by jlesage
theoretical study from the Netherlands about functioning and origins of blogs in US
October 2006
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."
lecturelinks of Mary Klages
by jlesage
extensive lecture notes on major cultural figures and critical concepts for course Modern Critical Thought
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
Journal for MultiMedia History - Volume 3 (2000) Contents Page
by jlesage
journal of history that uses hypertext and multimedia
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
Haraway_CyborgManifesto.html
by jlesage & 1 other
full text of famous essay in feminist Internet theory
critcrim.org
by jlesage
Essay summarizing differences between modernist and postmodernist thought, useful for grad students, those who want to catch up quickly.
Welcome to convergence culture Henry Jenkins
by jlesage
opening chapter of Jenkins' new book, "Convergence Culture"
The Kitchen - Essays
by jlesage
"SELECTION OF ESSAYS AND PUBLICATIONS RELEVANT TO ART, CRAFT AND POLITICS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF VIDEO"
A Rape in Cyberspace By Julian Dibbell
by jlesage
1993, complete text of essay delineating important event in Internet history
September 2006
Lev Manovich - Avant-garde as Software
by jlesage
The 1920s avant garde "revolution" in film, arts, typography, and architecture has become part of computer hard- and software design; new media does not now provide new ways of seeing but radically new ways of using already accumulated media.
Film Bibliographies: Media Resources Center UCB
by jlesage
Good place to start research for both scholars and students, comprehensive resource collection for film studies at UC-Berkeley: Bibliographies here for many film/TV Topics,Themes, Genres, Directors; on National Cinemas; and on Individual Films/Videos; Ful
August 2006
Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net
by jlesage
interesting left theory online journal--"exploring culture and politics after the net"
