public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags politicaleconomy & space

01 December 2006

27 November 2006

eipcp.net

transversal is a multilingual web journal; interesting web design

26 November 2006

media teacher's home page, lots of resouces, links pages

"news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics--\perspective informed by media history, political economy and social and cultural theory."

20 November 2006

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

$99,000 house

built out of shipping containers, schematics given; is this sustainability?

Why Work?

CLAWS: Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery. Since I am retired and a webmistress for a media site, ejumpcut.org, I love the idea of this site for personal reasons. But most people do have to work, so this maintains an utopian sensibility for al

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

Howie's Home Page

homepage and access to many of Howard Becker's essays online; major figure in sociology of art

06 November 2006

Henry Jenkins: Taking the You Out of YouTube?

what kinds of censorship face You Tube and My Space, in addition to the site's ownership of content?

howstuffismade.org

visual encyclopedia that documents manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products.--summative photo essays produced by students guided by faculty

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."

Invincible Cities

photographic exploration of two poor cities, a combination of Walter Benjamin's interest in traces and overlays with systematic, extensive visual ethnography

03 November 2006

"Flaubert's Point of View" by Pierre Bourdieu

complete text of long essay; Flaubert was a touchstone for Bourdieu in establishing the concept of the field of cultural production

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

one small project

learning from those who "claim leftover spaces in cities and live in unauthorized dwellings made of scavenged, leftover materials"; solicits contributions

Fast Capitalism ejournal

interdisciplinary journal on information and communication in 21st cent. economy and culture; good authors; focus on new media

19 October 2006

New Urbanism

website and organization promoting good urbanism, sustainable development, smart transportation, and transit oriented development.