PUBLIC MARKS with tags identity & politics

The Obama presidential campaign was an innovation in American politics and American design. For the first time, a candidate used art and design to bring together the American people—capturing their voices in a visual way. The Design Director of the Obama campaign, Scott Thomas, has collaborated with artists and designers to create Designing Obama, a chronicle of the art from the historic campaign.

Si l’on examine l’ensemble de ces marques on constate globalement une mise en perspective des projets ou du moins des positionnements politiques de chacun des partis représentés. Mais dire que ces marques sont vraiment porteurs des valeurs contemporaines des préoccupations des électeurs, il y a un pas.

Not You/Like You: Post-Colonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference, by Trinh T. Minh-ha

Traces, in the sense of Walter Benjamin's Arcades project, mark visual culture and always tell a story, if we take the time to notice

"interprets and critiques movies and television, news and political rhetoric, theme parks and advertising, computer games and the Internet, and other creations of contemporary culture"

good overview of shifts in theory and focus of studies

very large academic resources collection for arts, humanities, social theory, philosophy

many of this important writer's essays online, a psychoanalyst who has long been a political commentator

Focusing on the resilience of distinctive local consumption cultures, with evidence from three contrasting consumption cultures: consumption and 'public culture' in India, 'consumer nationalism' in China, and 'artful consumption' in Russia.

on political implications of considering space within political discussions of responsibility and identity

"Every time we have an idea for an hour of radio we post it to the site." Via blog viewers help build shows which air after research.

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

combines concept of Third Space with that of subcultural resistance

Filmmakers and writers need to be aware of the history and social practice "spoken" by spaces and places. This is about the politics of gardens.

CLAWS: Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery. Since I am retired and a webmistress for a media site, ejumpcut.org, I love the idea of this site for personal reasons. But most people do have to work, so this maintains an utopian sensibility for al

a multilingual web journal that challenges received ideas about linguistic and cultural "translation" along principles of a critique of culturalisation; social recomposition, beyond postcolonialism: a global commons; multilinguality vs. national language

an audio/slideshow with native peoples of Alaska testifying to effects of climate change

Andrew Ross: “Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property” (American Quarterly, 58:3, 2006).

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.

large collection organized by thematic and political categories; useful for office door poster, flyer, or demonstration

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

learning from those who "claim leftover spaces in cities and live in unauthorized dwellings made of scavenged, leftover materials"; solicits contributions

abstract for thesis that sparks some interesting trains of thought

"different modes of life embodied within local domains, yet globally interconnected at the same time"