October 2006
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 jlesageOct 06. Innovative academic TV site, Flow, has upcoming conversational conference coming at end of month. Contributors submit short position papers, available for downloading.
Networked Public Culture
by jlesagetheses 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.
H-Net Review: John C. Ehrhardt on Tourism: Between Place and Performance
by jlesageFor students of documentary, it is useful to conceptualize place, space, locale, and social performance all at the same time.
The Kitchen - Essays
by jlesage"SELECTION OF ESSAYS AND PUBLICATIONS RELEVANT TO ART, CRAFT AND POLITICS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF VIDEO"
Steve Bussey's Blog: "Interpreting Popular Culture" Course
by jlesageBlogger describes course, including a bibliography of exciting readings.
H-Net Review: J. Michael Ryan on Sharon Zukin's "Point of Purchase"
by jlesagesubtitle of Zukin's book: How Shopping Changed American Culture; H-Net review offers reviews of humanities scholarship
re-public: re.imagining democracy
by jlesagee-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 jlesage1993, complete text of essay delineating important event in Internet history
"Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet"
by jlesagemajor essay by Lisa Nakamura
September 2006
The House Next Door
by jlesagethoughtful and substantial essays on TV shows and current and foreign films; excellent set of links on right side to film blogs and other Intenet film resources
De una de las mujeres que amo. | Negra cubana... tenĂa que ser
by jlesageCuban woman's blog with article about the representation of black women in advertising, in Spanish
August 2006
MPI - Participant Rooms
by jlesageexcellent set of academic online essays related to "global and local factors that enable/constrain cultural production and resignification/resistance by a varierty of media audiences"
Autonomy & Solidarity | Autonomy & Solidarity Network
by jlesageleft journal: change comes from self organization of workers and oppressed groups
Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net
by jlesageinteresting left theory online journal--"exploring culture and politics after the net"
Upperstall.com - A Better View of Indian Cinema
by jlesageanalytic writing about Indian cinema; a good place to start if you want to start looking at films from India in a serious way
July 2006
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by jlesageEd Halter's reviews of avant-garde film, often for the Village Voice, and his observations on the experimental film world
rogerebert.com :: FRONTPAGE (xhtml)
by jlesage & 2 othersa newspaper and tv film reviewer with consistently good writing over many years
eye | the international review of graphic design
by jlesage & 2 othersnew journal of graphic design and visual culture
Posthegemony
by jlesagecultural theory, literature, media--from the perspective of a Latin Americanist
The Mass Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism
by jlesageimportant essay by Miriam Hansen