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05 October 2006

critcrim.org

by jlesage
Essay summarizing differences between modernist and postmodernist thought, useful for grad students, those who want to catch up quickly.

b o r d e r l a n d s e-journal :: all issues

by jlesage
"writings cutting across and between politics, media, literature, history, law, science, medicine, philosophy, economics, music, film and more." Attractive and informative graphic design for ejournal homepage.

Flow Conference 2006

by jlesage
Oct 06. Innovative academic TV site, Flow, has upcoming conversational conference coming at end of month. Contributors submit short position papers, available for downloading.

DIY Media Weblog

by jlesage
new blog as of Sept 06, good authors; participatory democracy in Internet communications

Networked Public Culture

by jlesage
theses for a proposed book on this topic, to which readers are invited to contribute, with comments included in "symposia" after each chapter, first announcement. Later entries include chapter contributors, topics, comments.

03 October 2006

net critique ยป Interview with Alan Liu

by jlesage
Liu is author of "The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information"

Collectivate.net -- Distributed Aesthetics

by jlesage
expanded discussion of a workshop on this topic. See "theses" by Munster and Lovink

Critique of Ranking and Listing; Exchange with Kenneth C. Werbin

by jlesage
"Our increasing emphasis on quantitative reductions, like ranking lists, at the expense of critically engaged qualitative thought, can be seen as bottom-line strategies for efficiently navigating our increasingly .. networked cybernetic order."

02 October 2006

Street Media: A Thesis Proposal

by jlesage
Images found in an urban environment and how to evaluate them: a key component of photography, film, photos, visual anthropology.

course outline on space, place, and landscape in contemporary art

by jlesage
You will need to cut and paste URLs into your browser, but there is much here to followup on in terms of bibliography and links.

course outline on social construction of space

by jlesage
understanding this topic is crucial for folks in the visual arts, especially documentarians

H-Net Review: John C. Ehrhardt on Tourism: Between Place and Performance

by jlesage
For students of documentary, it is useful to conceptualize place, space, locale, and social performance all at the same time.

01 October 2006

Marita Sturken'sHomePage

by jlesage
links to full text of some of her essays, especially one on Katrina, weather media, and Homeland Security

Martin Irvine, Georgetown University

by jlesage
useful website of communication, culture, and technology professor; many links to courses,lectures, slideshows and essays on art, visual culture, media theory

OUP: Cartwright & Sturken: "Practices of Looking"

by jlesage
Oxford U. Press offers PDFs of chapters one and nine of this introduction to visual culture

H-Net Review: J. Michael Ryan on Sharon Zukin's "Point of Purchase"

by jlesage
subtitle of Zukin's book: How Shopping Changed American Culture; H-Net review offers reviews of humanities scholarship

re-public: re.imagining democracy

by jlesage
e-journal: "process of re-imagining democracy, broadly conceived as referring to the multitude of practices that shape everyday life"; in-depth left essays from an international perspective

A Rape in Cyberspace By Julian Dibbell

by jlesage
1993, complete text of essay delineating important event in Internet history