December 2006
Lateral Thinking Problems - Preconceptions
by jlesage
The site poses problems in lateral or logical thinking, from easy to hard, with both hints and answers. Great party conversation and something kids will like.
November 2006
ArtLex on New Media
by jlesage
entry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful
Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University
by jlesage
Geography 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 other
huge 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."
Conversations with Dina
by jlesage
post on how students did visual ethnography using Flickr and the tags people put there
Visual Culture and the Contemporary City
by jlesage
extensive course lectures with special attention to Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin's concepts, especially Benjamin on the flaneur.
Enculturation: Barry Mauer on Found Photographs
by jlesage
"The Found Photograph and the Limits of Meaning"
Bruce B. Janz Home Page
by jlesage
very large academic resources collection for arts, humanities, social theory, philosophy
Philosophy and Contemporary Culture
by jlesage & 1 other
extensive links page for cultural studies, theory, web resources, major figures by a teacher
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.
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
'The Science Of Ghosts' - Derrida In 'Ghost Dance' (1983)
by jlesage
Derrida 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
October 2006
Knowing Knowledge - a photoset on Flickr by George Siemens
by jlesage
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
Composing Cyberspace, by Rich Holeton
by jlesage
website for book, with sections on knowledge, community, and identity; does not have text of book but many useful questions, links, and resources
A Rape in Cyberspace By Julian Dibbell
by jlesage
1993, complete text of essay delineating important event in Internet history
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