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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage

20 November 2006 17:00

Modern Ruins, Photographic Essays - Shaun and Wendy O'Boyle

Traces, in the sense of Walter Benjamin's Arcades project, mark visual culture and always tell a story, if we take the time to notice

Photo Essays in Black and White by Herman Krieger

views of vernacular architecture and everyday use in small towns; from Eugene Oregon

American Studies Electronic Crossroads

large American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research

ArtLex Art Dictionary

by 3 others
search, arranged in alphabetical order, large number of terms

culture.info - sharing knowledge for culture - visual

the visual page from a large European web portal for arts professionals; another page is for media

American Lesbian Photography - Home

"aim is to provide an overview over those lesbian photographers that took pictures of lesbians, and .. to discuss their photography in relation to the time in which they worked"

Notes on The Gaze

Daniel Chandler's overview of the use of an important concept in media theory

Welcome to Transparency

by 1 other
"interprets and critiques movies and television, news and political rhetoric, theme parks and advertising, computer games and the Internet, and other creations of contemporary culture"

20 November 2006 16:00

Changing Approaches to Cultural Landscapes

good overview of shifts in theory and focus of studies

Design Observer: writings about design & culture

by 1 other
very well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers

Bruce B. Janz Home Page

very large academic resources collection for arts, humanities, social theory, philosophy

Aesthetics and Visual Culture

extensive links page, from a philosophy disciplinary perspective; updated Aug. 06

MRQE - Movie Review Query Engine

by 1 other
perhaps an improvement over Rotten Tomatoes, also gives links to blogs that dealt with a given film; worth a try

Storytelling in Flickr on Flickr

various modes of flickr storytelling are described, and the keywords needed to get to them

Joel Kovel

many of this important writer's essays online, a psychoanalyst who has long been a political commentator

Connectivism Blog

by 1 other
a new theory of education and learning, for a digital Internet culture

20 November 2006 15:00

Local consumption cultures in a globalizing world by Peter Jackson

Focusing on the resilience of distinctive local consumption cultures, with evidence from three contrasting consumption cultures: consumption and 'public culture' in India, 'consumer nationalism' in China, and 'artful consumption' in Russia.

Geographies of Responsibility by Doreen Massey

on political implications of considering space within political discussions of responsibility and identity