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11 November 2006

Homi Bhabha - Excerpts

by jlesage
excerpts from postcolonial scholar's major works, also bibliography, links, other material

07 November 2006

06 November 2006

Multimedia - From Wagner to Virtual Reality

by jlesage
attractive web site dealing with concepts, pioneers, images, theory

howstuffismade.org

by jlesage
visual encyclopedia that documents manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products.--summative photo essays produced by students guided by faculty

Documenting America

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

Syllabus - SOC 4391 - Social Theory

by jlesage
value of the course outline is that there are links to chapters of most classics in social theory, reproduced as full text chapters and extensive excerpts

Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society

by jlesage
very large bibliography on Critical Whiteness Studies, broken down into various categories; not interactive and does not lead to full text essays; worth going to the library to follow up on

The geopolitics of knowledge and the colonial difference

by jlesage
by Walter Mignolo; "'modernity' is not a strictly European but a planetary phenomenon to which the "excluded barbarians" have contributed, although their contribution has not been acknowledged."

Invincible Cities

by jlesage
photographic exploration of two poor cities, a combination of Walter Benjamin's interest in traces and overlays with systematic, extensive visual ethnography

After September 11: Images from Ground Zero: Joel Meyerowitz

by jlesage
The foremost color photographer in the US had special access to Ground Zero in NY shortly after the attack; this site has images from his major exhibit

Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry

by jlesage
Course outline and reading list for fine arts course on landscape photography; excellent bibliography; will require a trip to the photography books section of a fine arts library

03 November 2006

"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

02 November 2006

BLDG/BLOG

by jlesage & 3 others
lots of fascinating image material; architectural conjecture :: urban speculation :: landscape futures

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

Variant

by jlesage
journal of arts and culture in social context; theoretical essays; international in scope

filmscreed

by jlesage
film blog with lots of images regularly posted

01 November 2006

31 October 2006

30 October 2006

I Photograph to Remember

by jlesage
Pedro Meyer's photoessay about his father's last days; a classic

24 October 2006

course outline on photography and place

by jlesage
using photography as disciplined mode of exploration, expressing ideas

23 October 2006

18 October 2006

Movement by Grigorio Agamben

by jlesage
author traces concept of movement from Aristotle and asks us to "rethink the concept of movement and its relation to biopolitics."