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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags academic & theory

03 November 2006

The Forms of Capital

Bourdieu on economic, cultural, and social capital; full text essay

02 November 2006

SocioSite

a very large sociology site from the University of Amsterdam; of particular interest are a section on web sociology and one on famous sociology; site is full of both explanations and links to other full text articles

"Cyberfeminism with a difference" by Rosi Braidotti

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.

Place: Cultural, Disability, Ethnic, Media, Postcolonial, Race Studies

huge multi-page database of links on space and place in cultural geography as applicable to interdisciplinary studies

Variant

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

walking as knowing as making

a concept of walking = knowledge building sensorially; bibliography of readings linked to here

01 November 2006

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

"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

Jeffrey Ruoff: Publications

major writer on visual ethnography has many of his essays online

M/C Journal - Latest Issue

from Australia, looking at media internationally and politically

Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular

"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."

Transliteracies » Blog Archive » Lisa Parks

Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading

30 October 2006

24 October 2006

Fast Capitalism ejournal

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

23 October 2006

Mute magazine-"Time, Labour & Social Domination"

long review by Moishe Postone; in-depth analysis of contemporary theories of non-material labor in information field

21 October 2006

Knowing Knowledge - a photoset on Flickr by George Siemens

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

Driftline Lists and Archives

archived content from listservs dealing with theory and theorists

19 October 2006

Introduction to Genre Theory

by Daniel Chandler--the major theoretical concept that ties film/tv and literature together.

18 October 2006

Bruno Latour: ARTICLES

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

Professor Stephen Graham - Writing & Publication

left urban geographer, with many online writings, often with an international focus

Praxis (e)Press - Contents

"critical works in theory and practice in several fields from a variety of different theoretical perspectives – including anarchist, anti-racist, environmentalist, feminist, marxist, postcolonial, poststructuralist, queer, situationist and socialist"