public marks

PUBLIC MARKS with tags space & theory

06 November 2006

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."

03 November 2006

NMEDIAC : THE JOURNAL OF NEW MEDIA AND CULTURE : nmediac.net

by jlesage
papers and audiovisual texts on "the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of new media apparatuses"

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

"Cyberfeminism with a difference" by Rosi Braidotti

by jlesage
an important essay building on the work of Donna Haraway, emphasizing the kinds of empoverishment that come with globalization, and the possibilities for new forms of collective identity in cyberspace, while eschewing utopianism.

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

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.

01 November 2006

The Art of Rent by David Harvey, SR 2002 | Socialist Register

by jlesage
"a widespread belief that there is something special about certain cultural products and events (be they in the arts, theatre, music, cinema, architecture or more broadly in localized ways of life, heritage, collective memories and affective communities).

31 October 2006

Media Chops

by jlesage
the techniques and aesthetics of media making, including animation; wonderfully designed site

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."

24 October 2006

Fast Capitalism ejournal

by jlesage
interdisciplinary journal on information and communication in 21st cent. economy and culture; good authors; focus on new media

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

19 October 2006

New Urbanism

by jlesage
website and organization promoting good urbanism, sustainable development, smart transportation, and transit oriented development.

18 October 2006

Bruno Latour: ARTICLES

by jlesage
most of these works are in English and have full text version online