02 November 2006
Loïc Wacquant
site of sociologist who was often a co-author with Pierre Bourdieu; many links to full text essays online.
01 November 2006
The Art of Rent by David Harvey, SR 2002 | Socialist Register
"a widespread belief that there is something special about certain cultural products and events (be they in the arts, theatre, music, cinema, architecture or more broadly in localized ways of life, heritage, collective memories and affective communities).
Continental Drift a seminar with Brian Holmes
"articulating the immense geopolitical and economic shifts which took place between 1989-2001, the effects of those changes on bodies of governance and in turn the effects on subjectivity today"; links to political and social readings
Project Premises : Sed : A Trail of Thirst
hypertext and visual arts project on southwest US and politics of the border; extensive essay with incorporated artistic material; new vision of documentary media, visual ethnography
31 October 2006
M/C Journal - Latest Issue
from Australia, looking at media internationally and politically
24 October 2006
one small project
learning from those who "claim leftover spaces in cities and live in unauthorized dwellings made of scavenged, leftover materials"; solicits contributions
23 October 2006
The Propaganda Remix Project
by 2 othersold WW2 posters with contemporary messages; very well thought out designwise; print out for your office door
21 October 2006
Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race
current issue has free articles, progressive social geography
19 October 2006
New Urbanism
website and organization promoting good urbanism, sustainable development, smart transportation, and transit oriented development.
18 October 2006
Movement by Grigorio Agamben
author traces concept of movement from Aristotle and asks us to "rethink the concept of movement and its relation to biopolitics."
17 October 2006
PhD Project: Vernacular Creativity and New Media at creativity/machine
abstract for thesis that sparks some interesting trains of thought
RUT } Radical Urban Theory: writings on the modern urban condition
includes many essays by Mike Davis
howstuffismadeblog
manufacturing processes, labor conditions, and environmental issues involved in the production of contemporary goods
multilingual web journal
check out sections to left on main page, and also writings listed under "correspondence"
translations of essays on activist art
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.
TDR: "'You are here': the DNA of Performance"
essay by Diana Taylor about how traumatic events may be represented and possibly transmitted to those who did not experience them
graphic illustration of data about US
by 2 othersI learned new search terms for visualization: infosthetics or infoviz.
Mute
online magazine exploring "culture after the net"
16 October 2006
Reconstruction 6.3 (Summer 2006)
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
Long Sunday
attractive, interesting leads
09 October 2006
06 October 2006
05 October 2006
Carnival of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
accumulation of blog entries on important postcolonial theorist
