public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags bibliography & space

December 2006

November 2006

James Elkins - Syllabi

many of this teacher's lectures on art, visual culture, and social issues are here, along with his syllabi

Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview

longstanding and well maintained site by Internet humanities pioneer, George P. Landow. Organized by country and by conceptual approaches. Courses linked to. Useful internal search engine.

GEO 101 World Human Geography

very evocative discussion guides for students doing exercises in and thinking about a wide variety of physical and cultural spaces; writers can gets lots of ideas from this course and its notes

culture.info - sharing knowledge for culture - visual

the visual page from a large European web portal for arts professionals; another page is for media

Dave Harris and Colleagues

large collection of work, lectures, course materials in media studies, leisure studies, sociology

Photoethnography.com - Photoethnographers

bibliography with many links to historically important photographers

Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society

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

Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry

Course outline and reading list for fine arts course on landscape photography; excellent bibliography; will require a trip to the photography books section of a fine arts library

October 2006

Professor Stephen Graham - Writing & Publication

left urban geographer, with many online writings, often with an international focus

Anxious Libraries

wonderfully designed hypertext project on what libraries might mean today, with all those books few people read; a model of a hypertext exploration of an important intellectual topic

course outline on social construction of space

understanding this topic is crucial for folks in the visual arts, especially documentarians