06 November 2006
Invincible Cities
photographic exploration of two poor cities, a combination of Walter Benjamin's interest in traces and overlays with systematic, extensive visual ethnography
After September 11: Images from Ground Zero: Joel Meyerowitz
The foremost color photographer in the US had special access to Ground Zero in NY shortly after the attack; this site has images from his major exhibit
Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry
Course outline and reading list for fine arts course on landscape photography; excellent bibliography; will require a trip to the photography books section of a fine arts library
03 November 2006
NMEDIAC : THE JOURNAL OF NEW MEDIA AND CULTURE : nmediac.net
papers and audiovisual texts on "the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of new media apparatuses"
"Contributions to a Resistant Visual Culture Glossary"
essay introducing concepts that can help critic look at visual culture more politically
Jahsonic, a vocabulary of culture
intriguing website taking up themes and critical theories/ists, with many links; check out "index" link on home page
"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
"Rhetorical and Political Agency in the Habitus"
essay attempting to analyze potential agency of teachers and students
Pierre Bourdieu and taste
overview, with many links; part of a larger, interesting cultural studies site
BOURDIEU AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF AESTHETICS
interpretive essay that provides good overview for cultural studies; constrasts Bourdieu and Derrida
Pierre Bourdieu, The Essence Of Neoliberalism
key essay in English
02 November 2006
"Cyberfeminism with a difference" by Rosi Braidotti
an important essay building on the work of Donna Haraway, emphasizing the kinds of empoverishment that come with globalization, and the possibilities for new forms of collective identity in cyberspace, while eschewing utopianism.
Place: Cultural, Disability, Ethnic, Media, Postcolonial, Race Studies
huge multi-page database of links on space and place in cultural geography as applicable to interdisciplinary studies
Welcome to House of Lime
by 2 otherscheck out category "dings" to see a huge collection of innovative dingbats
LeisureArts: Some context for Concept Trucking
"practice engaged with various forms of ephemeral, convivial, and quotidian cultural production"
essays by Grant Kester
links to Kester's full text essays on art and culture
walking as knowing as making
a concept of walking = knowledge building sensorially; bibliography of readings linked to here
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
U B U W E B
by 28 others"independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts"; lots on experimental film
31 October 2006
Jeffrey Ruoff: Publications
major writer on visual ethnography has many of his essays online
Story Myth Dream Drama by Helena Sheehan
chapter one of "Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories" offered by author online
