01 December 2006
Cyberculture Links
prepared by noted scholar, Sean Cubitt, extensive links in various categories, good links to theory
30 November 2006
Miradas--in Spanish
extensive critical discussion of Latin American film and TV; Cuban site
27 November 2006
eipcp.net
transversal is a multilingual web journal; interesting web design
20 November 2006
Joel Kovel
many of this important writer's essays online, a psychoanalyst who has long been a political commentator
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
Neoliberalizing Space
essay on updating space-place theory for contemporary economics
13 November 2006
Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
"multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era... how technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations...including issues of globalization, mobility, power, and access"
11 November 2006
A People's History Of The United States - Howard Zinn | libcom.org
entire text of this major left history is online
Howie's Home Page
homepage and access to many of Howard Becker's essays online; major figure in sociology of art
The Imperial Archive
influence of the British imperial process on literature from the 19th through the 21st centuries; deals with specific areas of the world that were former colonies
06 November 2006
archive : s0metim3s | Undercommons 2.0 | October | 2006
Andrew Ross: “Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property” (American Quarterly, 58:3, 2006).
Media Art Net | Overview of Media Art | MassMedia
links to many full text essays on television; site is a little difficult to navigate, but links to much good writing
The geopolitics of knowledge and the colonial difference
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."
03 November 2006
"Contributions to a Resistant Visual Culture Glossary"
essay introducing concepts that can help critic look at visual culture more politically
Pierre Bourdieu, The Essence Of Neoliberalism
key essay in English
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).
24 October 2006
Fast Capitalism ejournal
interdisciplinary journal on information and communication in 21st cent. economy and culture; good authors; focus on new media
23 October 2006
Mute magazine-"Time, Labour & Social Domination"
long review by Moishe Postone; in-depth analysis of contemporary theories of non-material labor in information field
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