01 December 2006
Cyberculture Links
prepared by noted scholar, Sean Cubitt, extensive links in various categories, good links to theory
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."
Alive with Alzheimer's, the first photographic book on AD by Cathy Greenblat
by a visual sociologist, a site for everyone
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
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
Howie's Home Page
homepage and access to many of Howard Becker's essays online; major figure in sociology of art
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).
subsol index
links to many full text essays on art and activism
Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space by Neil Smith
entire book by major left social geographer available in three downloads
Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society
very large bibliography on Critical Whiteness Studies, broken down into various categories; not interactive and does not lead to full text essays; worth going to the library to follow up on
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
The Forms of Capital
Bourdieu on economic, cultural, and social capital; full text essay
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
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 on Mike Davis' "Planet of Slums"
review, lays out historical context
17 October 2006
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.
Mute
online magazine exploring "culture after the net"
