04 December 2006
U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights - Yahoo! News
by jlesage
Film professors can copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.
01 December 2006
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
20 November 2006
Picture This: Literary Theory and the Study of Visual Culture
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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
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good overview of shifts in theory and focus of studies
Bruce B. Janz Home Page
by jlesage
very large academic resources collection for arts, humanities, social theory, philosophy
Local consumption cultures in a globalizing world by Peter Jackson
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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.
Geographies of Responsibility by Doreen Massey
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on political implications of considering space within political discussions of responsibility and identity
19 November 2006
(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography
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blog that reviews and critiques aspects of art and visual culture and photojournalism, often from an ethical standpoint
16 November 2006
David Butz and Michael Ripmeester - Finding Space for Resistant Subcultures
by jlesage
combines concept of Third Space with that of subcultural resistance
Book Review of "Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization"
by jlesage
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.
13 November 2006
Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity
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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
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"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
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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
11 November 2006
A People's History Of The United States - Howard Zinn | libcom.org
by jlesage
entire text of this major left history is online
Confronting Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Ed'n in 21st Century
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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
06 November 2006
archive : s0metim3s | Undercommons 2.0 | October | 2006
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Andrew Ross: “Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property” (American Quarterly, 58:3, 2006).
howstuffismade.org
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visual encyclopedia that documents manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products.--summative photo essays produced by students guided by faculty
Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space by Neil Smith
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entire book by major left social geographer available in three downloads
Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society
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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
03 November 2006
"Rhetorical and Political Agency in the Habitus"
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essay attempting to analyze potential agency of teachers and students
02 November 2006
"Cyberfeminism with a difference" by Rosi Braidotti
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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.
Loïc Wacquant
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site of sociologist who was often a co-author with Pierre Bourdieu; many links to full text essays online.
