public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags culturalstudies & rhetoric

02 December 2006

Making Sense of Metaphors by Bernard J. Tibbetts

subtitle: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse, 1994, long full-text essay online

01 December 2006

27 November 2006

group hug // anonymous online confessions

by 9 others
like postsecrets but in prose; "type a note about a fault of your own, something you did or thought about and are not proud of"; filters out obvious lies, overtly vulgar, identifying specific others.

20 November 2006

18 November 2006

Journal E: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America

one of the most important exhibitions of our time, also raising questions about the ethics of exhibiting violence in our media culture today

Dr Daniel Chandler's UWA Home Page

extensive website of visual semiotician, with course outlines, online papers, and an interesting links page

13 November 2006

"We"--with the words of Arundhati Roy

a 64-minute Internet documentary made anonymously in New Zealand, using Roy's speech and a montage of politically inflected imagery; new style of essayistic documentary; DVD at hi-res available

06 November 2006

Roadside Architecture

documenting roadside architecture in the US, under many whacky categories; this is a favorite theme of mine in photography

03 November 2006

Jahsonic, a vocabulary of culture

intriguing website taking up themes and critical theories/ists, with many links; check out "index" link on home page

03 October 2006

net critique ยป Interview with Alan Liu

Liu is author of "The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information"