04 December 2006
U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights - Yahoo! News
Film professors can copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.
01 December 2006
Black Film Research Online
good discussion of Black film in Chicago; also a large section on how to do Black film research on the Internet
Trinh T. Minh-ha essay
Not You/Like You: Post-Colonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference, by Trinh T. Minh-ha
27 November 2006
eipcp.net
transversal is a multilingual web journal; interesting web design
21 November 2006
Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview
longstanding and well maintained site by Internet humanities pioneer, George P. Landow. Organized by country and by conceptual approaches. Courses linked to. Useful internal search engine.
GEO 101 World Human Geography
very evocative discussion guides for students doing exercises in and thinking about a wide variety of physical and cultural spaces; writers can gets lots of ideas from this course and its notes
Generation, translations and essays
translations and essays of key European cultural theorists, often Marxists; interestingly crafted site
20 November 2006
Picture This: Literary Theory and the Study of Visual Culture
by Paul Jay, Univ. of Chicago
Nicholas Mirzoeff : An Introduction to Visual Culture (Routledge, 1999)
Introduction to book, tells basic concepts, history
Changing Approaches to Cultural Landscapes
good overview of shifts in theory and focus of studies
Bruce B. Janz Home Page
very large academic resources collection for arts, humanities, social theory, philosophy
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
19 November 2006
(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography
blog that reviews and critiques aspects of art and visual culture and photojournalism, often from an ethical standpoint
18 November 2006
EServer.org: Accessible Writing
by 3 otherslarge collection of academic essays; "such diverse topics as art, architecture, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, and current social issues. Also hypertext and streaming audio and video recordings."
16 November 2006
David Butz and Michael Ripmeester - Finding Space for Resistant Subcultures
combines concept of Third Space with that of subcultural resistance
Book Review of "Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization"
Filmmakers and writers need to be aware of the history and social practice "spoken" by spaces and places. This is about the politics of gardens.
13 November 2006
www.theory.org.uk -- the media theory site
large site, attractive new design as of 11/06. essays, links, delving into popular culture and playing with it, theoretical explorations and savvy; highly recommended
Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity
Braidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.
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"
translate.eipcp.net - translate.eipcp.net
a multilingual web journal that challenges received ideas about linguistic and cultural "translation" along principles of a critique of culturalisation; social recomposition, beyond postcolonialism: a global commons; multilinguality vs. national language
11 November 2006
A People's History Of The United States - Howard Zinn | libcom.org
entire text of this major left history is online
Confronting Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Ed'n in 21st Century
Henry Jenkins, with Katie Clinton, Ravi Purushotma, Alice J. Robinson, and Margaret Weigel ; PDF or online in 6 parts; sensible and sparks new directions of thought; respectful of students
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).
