03 December 2006
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22 November 2006
ArtLex on New Media
by jlesageentry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful
21 November 2006
Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University
by jlesageGeography courses, both present and past, with exercises, links, bibliography. Also see Urban Studies and American Indian Studies. Understanding place as cultural should inform both fiction and non-fiction film.
Research on Place and Space
by jlesage & 1 otherhuge portal site, across disciplines; "...other terms are sometimes used in place of place, such as home, dwelling, milieu, territory, and of course, space. None of these, though, are necessarily equivalent to the notion of place."
20 November 2006
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by jlesage11th edition, 2006, extensive, downloadable word files, not links
Visual Culture and the Contemporary City
by jlesageextensive course lectures with special attention to Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin's concepts, especially Benjamin on the flaneur.
Enculturation: Barry Mauer on Found Photographs
by jlesage"The Found Photograph and the Limits of Meaning"
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
by jlesagelarge American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research
ArtLex Art Dictionary
by jlesage & 3 otherssearch, arranged in alphabetical order, large number of terms
Theories of Internet Culture and Internet Textuality by Janez Strehovec, Ph.D.
by jlesageuseful and intriguingly designed website, with resources such as essays, links, keywords and definitions pages
Picture This: Literary Theory and the Study of Visual Culture
by jlesageby Paul Jay, Univ. of Chicago
Nicholas Mirzoeff : An Introduction to Visual Culture (Routledge, 1999)
by jlesageIntroduction to book, tells basic concepts, history
Bruce B. Janz Home Page
by jlesagevery large academic resources collection for arts, humanities, social theory, philosophy
Connectivism Blog
by jlesage & 1 othera new theory of education and learning, for a digital Internet culture
16 November 2006
Philosophy and Contemporary Culture
by jlesage & 1 otherextensive links page for cultural studies, theory, web resources, major figures by a teacher
illusions.html
by jlesagea page of links to visual illusions and their explanations; kids love these
David Butz and Michael Ripmeester - Finding Space for Resistant Subcultures
by jlesagecombines concept of Third Space with that of subcultural resistance
13 November 2006
Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity
by jlesageBraidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.
translate.eipcp.net - translate.eipcp.net
by jlesage a multilingual web journal that challenges received ideas about linguistic and cultural "translation" along principles of a critique of culturalisation; social recomposition, beyond postcolonialism: a global commons; multilinguality vs. national language