22 November 2006
ArtLex on New Media
by jlesageentry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful
21 November 2006
Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University
by jlesageGeography courses, both present and past, with exercises, links, bibliography. Also see Urban Studies and American Indian Studies. Understanding place as cultural should inform both fiction and non-fiction film.
Research on Place and Space
by jlesage & 1 otherhuge portal site, across disciplines; "...other terms are sometimes used in place of place, such as home, dwelling, milieu, territory, and of course, space. None of these, though, are necessarily equivalent to the notion of place."
20 November 2006
Enculturation: Barry Mauer on Found Photographs
by jlesage"The Found Photograph and the Limits of Meaning"
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
by jlesagelarge American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research
Theories of Internet Culture and Internet Textuality by Janez Strehovec, Ph.D.
by jlesageuseful and intriguingly designed website, with resources such as essays, links, keywords and definitions pages
Picture This: Literary Theory and the Study of Visual Culture
by jlesageby Paul Jay, Univ. of Chicago
Nicholas Mirzoeff : An Introduction to Visual Culture (Routledge, 1999)
by jlesageIntroduction to book, tells basic concepts, history
Bruce B. Janz Home Page
by jlesagevery large academic resources collection for arts, humanities, social theory, philosophy
16 November 2006
Philosophy and Contemporary Culture
by jlesage & 1 otherextensive links page for cultural studies, theory, web resources, major figures by a teacher
David Butz and Michael Ripmeester - Finding Space for Resistant Subcultures
by jlesagecombines concept of Third Space with that of subcultural resistance
Book Review of "Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization"
by jlesageFilmmakers and writers need to be aware of the history and social practice "spoken" by spaces and places. This is about the politics of gardens.
13 November 2006
Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity
by jlesageBraidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.
12 November 2006
'The Science Of Ghosts' - Derrida In 'Ghost Dance' (1983)
by jlesageDerrida plays himself in 1983 film about concepts of memory; he says he is here a ghost in the art of ghosts, cinema. Many clips from this film found here
11 November 2006
Literary Theory. Literary Criticism
by jlesagevery large site, also contains links for art and film, among other things, lots of branching possiblities
Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
by jlesagebrief overview of many currents, with links and bibliography
03 November 2006
"Contributions to a Resistant Visual Culture Glossary"
by jlesageessay introducing concepts that can help critic look at visual culture more politically
Jahsonic, a vocabulary of culture
by jlesageintriguing website taking up themes and critical theories/ists, with many links; check out "index" link on home page
"Rhetorical and Political Agency in the Habitus"
by jlesageessay attempting to analyze potential agency of teachers and students
Pierre Bourdieu and taste
by jlesageoverview, with many links; part of a larger, interesting cultural studies site
02 November 2006
21 October 2006
Knowing Knowledge - a photoset on Flickr by George Siemens
by jlesagefor 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
17 October 2006
Anxious Libraries
by jlesagewonderfully designed hypertext project on what libraries might mean today, with all those books few people read; a model of a hypertext exploration of an important intellectual topic