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PUBLIC MARKS with tags culturalstudies & space

03 November 2006

Jahsonic, a vocabulary of culture

by jlesage
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

by jlesage
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"

by jlesage
essay attempting to analyze potential agency of teachers and students

Pierre Bourdieu and taste

by jlesage
overview, with many links; part of a larger, interesting cultural studies site

BOURDIEU AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF AESTHETICS

by jlesage
interpretive essay that provides good overview for cultural studies; constrasts Bourdieu and Derrida

02 November 2006

Place: Cultural, Disability, Ethnic, Media, Postcolonial, Race Studies

by jlesage
huge multi-page database of links on space and place in cultural geography as applicable to interdisciplinary studies

LeisureArts: Some context for Concept Trucking

by jlesage
"practice engaged with various forms of ephemeral, convivial, and quotidian cultural production"

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.

31 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."

21 October 2006

Knowing Knowledge - a photoset on Flickr by George Siemens

by jlesage
for those interested in infoaesthetics, this set of 57 images about aspects of knowledge is a stimulating philosophical exercise and a way to ask students how they might have made an image of similar interacting concepts

17 October 2006

Sleepy City | urban photography

by jlesage & 1 other
photographically deconstructing the urban environment

placekraft

by jlesage
generating and studying: tactical urbanism, speculative cartography, ephemeral/vernacular architecture, and itinerant practices

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"

Anxious Libraries

by jlesage
wonderfully designed hypertext project on what libraries might mean today, with all those books few people read; a model of a hypertext exploration of an important intellectual topic

16 October 2006

Swarming Media

by jlesage
blog that give good reports on conferences and reviews of books, often on digital culture

15 October 2006

09 October 2006

Semiotics for Beginners by Daniel Chandler

by jlesage
semiotics, like connotation, and metaphor and metonymy are terms that convey how images bear meaning; valuable for anyone interested in film and photography