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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tag culturalstudies

03 November 2006

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

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

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

LeisureArts: Some context for Concept Trucking

"practice engaged with various forms of ephemeral, convivial, and quotidian cultural production"

"The Mirror and the Veil: An Overview of American Online Diaries and Blogs"

theoretical study from the Netherlands about functioning and origins of blogs in US

walking as knowing as making

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

Dialogic: Giorgio Agamben: Means Without Ends

a collection of ideas from Agamben that summarizes some of his key ideas; blog from "a dialogic provocateur searching for viable alternative/oppositional cultures." Much on film; many links.

The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation which might occur in a story or performance"; tips for screenwriters looking for ideas

31 October 2006

Jeffrey Ruoff: Publications

major writer on visual ethnography has many of his essays online

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

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

18 October 2006

lecturelinks of Mary Klages

extensive lecture notes on major cultural figures and critical concepts for course Modern Critical Thought

syllabus05: Visual Studies and Visual Culture

follow up on the links to his slide shows, with images from history of art; also links to online materials of interest

Cultural Studies Central

large omnibus site with many resources

17 October 2006

Sleepy City | urban photography

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photographically deconstructing the urban environment