public marks

PUBLIC MARKS with tag essays

October 2006

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.

The House Next Door

by jlesage
thoughtful and substantial essays on TV shows and current and foreign films; excellent set of links on right side to film blogs and other Intenet film resources

De una de las mujeres que amo. | Negra cubana... tenía que ser

by jlesage
Cuban woman's blog with article about the representation of black women in advertising, in Spanish

MiT4 abstracts and papaers

by jlesage
conference at MIT in 05 on the work of stories

Queers and Theory

by jlesage
a class blog, fall 06. We'll see where it goes.

Continuum Contents

by jlesage
online film journal from Australia

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

Film Studies Resources - Academic Info

by jlesage
useful site with lots of resources: bibliographies, "digital library" links, academic programs listed; full text artices; Online Film Collections, Archives, Themes: women, genre, theory; Film History, silent and sound eras, International--by region; Indiv

August 2006

MPI - Participant Rooms

by jlesage
excellent set of academic online essays related to "global and local factors that enable/constrain cultural production and resignification/resistance by a varierty of media audiences"

Autonomy & Solidarity | Autonomy & Solidarity Network

by jlesage
left journal: change comes from self organization of workers and oppressed groups

Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net

by jlesage
interesting left theory online journal--"exploring culture and politics after the net"

Upperstall.com - A Better View of Indian Cinema

by jlesage
analytic writing about Indian cinema; a good place to start if you want to start looking at films from India in a serious way

eLearn: Feature Article

by jlesage & 1 other
good overview of shifts in edtech to new kinds of networked learning

girish

by jlesage
originator of avant-garde blogathon, Aug. 2, 2006; good links on left to other film blogs; Aug. 2 entry has links to bloggers who responded to call.

Notes on the Cinema Stylographer: Ganeden, 2003

by jlesage
contains a list of every blogger that contributed to the avant-garde film blogathon, a good compilation of bloggers interested in the topic. This blog gathers intelligent comments for its postings.

CultureSpace

by jlesage
intelligent movie blog with good comments posted as well

left media resources

by jlesage
left links to alternate analysis of current and historical events

July 2006

edddhhhaalllltteerrr.....ccccoooommmm

by jlesage
Ed Halter's reviews of avant-garde film, often for the Village Voice, and his observations on the experimental film world