01 December 2006
Black Film Research Online
good discussion of Black film in Chicago; also a large section on how to do Black film research on the Internet
26 November 2006
media teacher's home page, lots of resouces, links pages
"news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics--\perspective informed by media history, political economy and social and cultural theory."
20 November 2006
Joel Kovel
many of this important writer's essays online, a psychoanalyst who has long been a political commentator
19 November 2006
Community and Activist Video - Welcome to the Videosphere!
especially about Chicago in the 1970s and 80s; the experimental and activist media communities have always been close here
18 November 2006
ZoneZero: from analog to digital photography
a large socially committed ejournal, edited by Pedro Meyer, one of the pioneers in digital photographic art; galleries, essays, investigations into image circulation and production within digital communication, especially the Internet
16 November 2006
The History Place - Child Labor in America
online collection of Lewis W. Hine photos
13 November 2006
Why Work?
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
"We"--with the words of Arundhati Roy
a 64-minute Internet documentary made anonymously in New Zealand, using Roy's speech and a montage of politically inflected imagery; new style of essayistic documentary; DVD at hi-res available
06 November 2006
subsol index
links to many full text essays on art and activism
McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto, version 4
edited version of essay
howstuffismade.org
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
03 November 2006
"Rhetorical and Political Agency in the Habitus"
essay attempting to analyze potential agency of teachers and students
02 November 2006
Radical Graphics
large collection organized by thematic and political categories; useful for office door poster, flyer, or demonstration
24 October 2006
one small project
learning from those who "claim leftover spaces in cities and live in unauthorized dwellings made of scavenged, leftover materials"; solicits contributions
23 October 2006
Mute magazine on Mike Davis' "Planet of Slums"
review, lays out historical context
19 October 2006
CNU: Charter
charter of the new urbanism
18 October 2006
Praxis (e)Press - Contents
"critical works in theory and practice in several fields from a variety of different theoretical perspectives – including anarchist, anti-racist, environmentalist, feminist, marxist, postcolonial, poststructuralist, queer, situationist and socialist"
17 October 2006
RUT } Radical Urban Theory: writings on the modern urban condition
includes many essays by Mike Davis
howstuffismadeblog
manufacturing processes, labor conditions, and environmental issues involved in the production of contemporary goods
multilingual web journal
check out sections to left on main page, and also writings listed under "correspondence"
translations of essays on activist art
On republicart, click on the words listed to the left under Discourse to see essays on topics such as: alternative economics, public sphere, precariousness, represenations, space of empire, art sabotage.
TDR: "'You are here': the DNA of Performance"
essay by Diana Taylor about how traumatic events may be represented and possibly transmitted to those who did not experience them
