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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags Activism & essays

November 2006

Joel Kovel

many of this important writer's essays online, a psychoanalyst who has long been a political commentator

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

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

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"

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

Papers for the 06 International Symposium on Electronic Arts

many full text papers available, with theoretical reflections and case studies, across media

Steve Bussey's Blog: "Interpreting Popular Culture" Course

Blogger describes course, including a bibliography of exciting readings.

September 2006

De una de las mujeres que amo. | Negra cubana... tenía que ser

Cuban woman's blog with article about the representation of black women in advertising, in Spanish

August 2006

Autonomy & Solidarity | Autonomy & Solidarity Network

left journal: change comes from self organization of workers and oppressed groups

left media resources

left links to alternate analysis of current and historical events

July 2006

Counterpunch

by 7 others
excellent daily newsletter / articles from Left authors