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PUBLIC MARKS with tags culturalstudies & essays

November 2006

"The Mirror and the Veil: An Overview of American Online Diaries and Blogs"

by jlesage
theoretical study from the Netherlands about functioning and origins of blogs in US

walking as knowing as making

by jlesage
a concept of walking = knowledge building sensorially; bibliography of readings linked to here

Dialogic: Giorgio Agamben: Means Without Ends

by jlesage
a collection of ideas from Agamben that summarizes some of his key ideas; blog from "a dialogic provocateur searching for viable alternative/oppositional cultures." Much on film; many links.

October 2006

Story Myth Dream Drama by Helena Sheehan

by jlesage
chapter one of "Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories" offered by author online

Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular

by jlesage
"Vectors maps the multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era, crystallizing around themes that highlight the social, political, and cultural stakes of our increasingly technologically-mediated existence."

Transliteracies » Blog Archive » Lisa Parks

by jlesage
Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading

lecturelinks of Mary Klages

by jlesage
extensive lecture notes on major cultural figures and critical concepts for course Modern Critical Thought

TRANSFORMATIONS

by jlesage
"different modes of life embodied within local domains, yet globally interconnected at the same time"

Vectors

by jlesage
Journal of Cultural and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular

multilingual web journal

by jlesage
check out sections to left on main page, and also writings listed under "correspondence"

Rosa Braidotti and Judith Butler on ethics of relation

by jlesage
a vivid debate between two feminist theorists described in detail

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.

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

July 2006

alterity

by jlesage
Danah Boyd's blog specifically for commenting on all the basic readings she did for her PhD exams

timescape syllabus

by jlesage
course outline with interesting links, especially lecture notes: "Since the birth of cinema, architectural and urban space, and ideas of landscape have played a crucial role in the visual representation of space on screen."

City of Sadness by Hou Hsiao-Hsien

by jlesage
a large hypertextual site with an analysis of the Taiwan classic film in its various aspects, especially social/historical and aesthetic; an early example of the possibilities of using the Internet for in-depth film analysis and yet to be surpassed

June 2006

EServer: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory

by jlesage
large bibliography with links to many full text essays--american studies, critical legal studies, literature, marxism, media, popular culture, postcolonialism, queer, race, women's studies