11 November 2006
Homi Bhabha - Excerpts
excerpts from postcolonial scholar's major works, also bibliography, links, other material
contemporary literary theory, lectures and essays by John Lye
on many currents, also external links
The Imperial Archive
influence of the British imperial process on literature from the 19th through the 21st centuries; deals with specific areas of the world that were former colonies
Confronting Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Ed'n in 21st Century
Henry Jenkins, with Katie Clinton, Ravi Purushotma, Alice J. Robinson, and Margaret Weigel ; PDF or online in 6 parts; sensible and sparks new directions of thought; respectful of students
Knowing Knowledge
useful summary by George Siemens of his ideas from new book; educators need to rethink all ideas about knowledge, education, and learning for young people growing up in the Internet era
10 November 2006
Henry Jenkins: Eight Traits of the New Media Landscape
succinct and useful as an overview 11/06
09 November 2006
Teaching resources links
a wide variety of intriguing paths to follow, listed alphabetically; a interesting way to set up a links page, although I prefer annotations
06 November 2006
archive : s0metim3s | Undercommons 2.0 | October | 2006
Andrew Ross: “Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property” (American Quarterly, 58:3, 2006).
Internet resources for course on web art production
links to theory, artists sites, institutional resources, good sites for tutorials, and ejournals on/for web art
subsol index
links to many full text essays on art and activism
Durham e-Prints - Department/Research Group: Cultural and Social Geography
28 papers from Univ. Durham on cultural geography, full text
Department of Geography : Research Clusters / Groups - Durham University
publications of Mike Crang, major cultural geographer and sociologist
Contemporary Aesthetics: ejournalof theory, research, and application in aesthetics.
lots of essays in each issue
Digital Library in leisure studies
links to full text essays; important to consider how people choose to organize their time and attention, when they can
Teaching Art in the Context of Everyday Life
a useful essay for all production teachers who want students to see the world around them anew
Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space by Neil Smith
entire book by major left social geographer available in three downloads
Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society
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 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
papers and audiovisual texts on "the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of new media apparatuses"
Jahsonic, a vocabulary of culture
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
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"
essay attempting to analyze potential agency of teachers and students
Pierre Bourdieu and taste
overview, with many links; part of a larger, interesting cultural studies site
BOURDIEU AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF AESTHETICS
interpretive essay that provides good overview for cultural studies; constrasts Bourdieu and Derrida
