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PUBLIC MARKS with tag culturalstudies

16 November 2006

Revealing Pictures & Reflexive Frames 2004

by jlesage
visual anthropology open archive, photos with comments: "opportunity to examine photographic modes of communication across societies, cultures, and academic worlds"

Geoff Stahl - Still 'Winning Space?': Updating Subcultural Theory

by jlesage
deals with the impact of computer mediated communication on subcultural theory; refutes role of "authenticity"; good overview of shifts in field

Book Review of "Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization"

by jlesage
Filmmakers and writers need to be aware of the history and social practice "spoken" by spaces and places. This is about the politics of gardens.

15 November 2006

Film Experience Blog: The Vampire Blog-a-Thon

by jlesage
Oct. 31, 06; over fifty film bloggers contributed to the Vampire blogathon

100 films

by jlesage
film blog; announces upcoming blogathons: Lovesick Cinema, Feb. 14; Unspoken Cinema, 08 January; Film Criticism, 01 December-03 December; Alfred Hitchcock, 15 November; large network of film bloggers write for these

Video History Project: Resources - Collections & Distribution Links

by jlesage
documents video art and community television, as it evolved in rural and urban New York State, and across the US

13 November 2006

Center for History and New Media

by jlesage & 1 other
extensive site, with resources about historical moments and syllabi, tools for Internet research, and projects undertaken by the Center

Not Fooling Anybody: Bad Conversions of Storefronts

by jlesage
vernacular conversions of old IHOPs, KFCs, BurgerKings, etc. to another commercial use; a wonderful collection of tacky architectural facades

Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity

by jlesage
Braidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.

12 November 2006

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

by jlesage
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

Literary Theory. Literary Criticism

by jlesage
very large site, also contains links for art and film, among other things, lots of branching possiblities

Howie's Home Page

by jlesage
homepage and access to many of Howard Becker's essays online; major figure in sociology of art

06 November 2006

SUBSOL other worlds

by jlesage
links to art and activism, art ejournals

Roadside Architecture

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

Digital Library in leisure studies

by jlesage
links to full text essays; important to consider how people choose to organize their time and attention, when they can

Documenting America

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