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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags space & culture

13 November 2006

"We"--with the words of Arundhati Roy

a 64-minute Internet documentary made anonymously in New Zealand, using Roy's speech and a montage of politically inflected imagery; new style of essayistic documentary; DVD at hi-res available

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"

Wayfaring

by 26 others
Create a map of your life* Build a map for your event* Make a travelogue* Create a map with photos and videos

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

12 November 2006

'The Science Of Ghosts' - Derrida In 'Ghost Dance' (1983)

Derrida plays himself in 1983 film about concepts of memory; he says he is here a ghost in the art of ghosts, cinema. Many clips from this film found here

11 November 2006

Thich Nhat Hahn

many links to this philosopher's writings on the web

Newest Webcams

by 12 others
random live webcams from the net, a new kind of documentary media, mostly surveillance

benditonontze.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

a fascinating narrative flash animation, perhaps a metaphor about war in our times

07 November 2006

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

Roadside Architecture

documenting roadside architecture in the US, under many whacky categories; this is a favorite theme of mine in photography

Documenting America

by 1 other
huge photographic archive from Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection

Photoethnography.com - Photoethnographers

bibliography with many links to historically important photographers

Syllabus - SOC 4391 - Social Theory

value of the course outline is that there are links to chapters of most classics in social theory, reproduced as full text chapters and extensive excerpts

The Mirror Project: Adventures in Reflective Surfaces

by 4 others
collection of images from people who photographed themselves in reflective surfaces; since this is a favorite tactics of lovers of light, many images are well composed and intriguing

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."