March 2008
December 2006
Offscreen.com :: Volume 10, Issue 10
by jlesage & 2 others
Canadian film journal online since 1997, wide coverage of independent and international film; many resources
Trinh T. Minh-ha essay
by jlesage
Not You/Like You: Post-Colonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference, by Trinh T. Minh-ha
November 2006
Welcome to Transparency
by jlesage & 1 other
"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"
Picture This: Literary Theory and the Study of Visual Culture
by jlesage
by Paul Jay, Univ. of Chicago
Nicholas Mirzoeff : An Introduction to Visual Culture (Routledge, 1999)
by jlesage
Introduction to book, tells basic concepts, history
Changing Approaches to Cultural Landscapes
by jlesage
good overview of shifts in theory and focus of studies
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
by jlesage & 1 other
very well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers
Bruce B. Janz Home Page
by jlesage
very large academic resources collection for arts, humanities, social theory, philosophy
Joel Kovel
by jlesage
many of this important writer's essays online, a psychoanalyst who has long been a political commentator
Local consumption cultures in a globalizing world by Peter Jackson
by jlesage
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.
(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography
by jlesage
blog that reviews and critiques aspects of art and visual culture and photojournalism, often from an ethical standpoint
David Butz and Michael Ripmeester - Finding Space for Resistant Subcultures
by jlesage
combines concept of Third Space with that of subcultural resistance
Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity
by jlesage
Braidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.
Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
by jlesage
"multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era... how technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations...including issues of globalization, mobility, power, and access"
translate.eipcp.net - translate.eipcp.net
by jlesage
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
Confronting Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Ed'n in 21st Century
by jlesage
Henry Jenkins, with Katie Clinton, Ravi Purushotma, Alice J. Robinson, and Margaret Weigel ; PDF or online in 6 parts; sensible and sparks new directions of thought; respectful of students
archive : s0metim3s | Undercommons 2.0 | October | 2006
by jlesage
Andrew Ross: “Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property” (American Quarterly, 58:3, 2006).
Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space by Neil Smith
by jlesage
entire book by major left social geographer available in three downloads
Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society
by jlesage
very large bibliography on Critical Whiteness Studies, broken down into various categories; not interactive and does not lead to full text essays; worth going to the library to follow up on
