public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tag academic

02 November 2006

Loïc Wacquant

site of sociologist who was often a co-author with Pierre Bourdieu; many links to full text essays online.

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).

Continental Drift a seminar with Brian Holmes

"articulating the immense geopolitical and economic shifts which took place between 1989-2001, the effects of those changes on bodies of governance and in turn the effects on subjectivity today"; links to political and social readings

Project Premises : Sed : A Trail of Thirst

hypertext and visual arts project on southwest US and politics of the border; extensive essay with incorporated artistic material; new vision of documentary media, visual ethnography

U B U W E B

by 28 others
"independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts"; lots on experimental film

31 October 2006

Jeffrey Ruoff: Publications

major writer on visual ethnography has many of his essays online

Dr. Helena Sheehan / Home Page

much material on her media and society courses, including powerpoint lectures

Story Myth Dream Drama by Helena Sheehan

chapter one of "Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories" offered by author 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

Planned Obsolescence

Kathleen Fitzpatrick is a media teacher and is spearheading an important online project for media scholars, Media Commons. Her blog has many teaching resources and summaries of sessions at the recent Flow TV Conference.

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