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
21 November 2006
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
20 November 2006
Modern Ruins, Photographic Essays - Shaun and Wendy O'Boyle
Traces, in the sense of Walter Benjamin's Arcades project, mark visual culture and always tell a story, if we take the time to notice
Picture This: Literary Theory and the Study of Visual Culture
by Paul Jay, Univ. of Chicago
Nicholas Mirzoeff : An Introduction to Visual Culture (Routledge, 1999)
Introduction to book, tells basic concepts, history
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
by 1 othervery well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers
Bruce B. Janz Home Page
very large academic resources collection for arts, humanities, social theory, philosophy
Joel Kovel
many of this important writer's essays online, a psychoanalyst who has long been a political commentator
19 November 2006
(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography
blog that reviews and critiques aspects of art and visual culture and photojournalism, often from an ethical standpoint
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
Journal E: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
one of the most important exhibitions of our time, also raising questions about the ethics of exhibiting violence in our media culture today
16 November 2006
David Butz and Michael Ripmeester - Finding Space for Resistant Subcultures
combines concept of Third Space with that of subcultural resistance
Book Review of "Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization"
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
www.theory.org.uk -- the media theory site
large site, attractive new design as of 11/06. essays, links, delving into popular culture and playing with it, theoretical explorations and savvy; highly recommended
"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
Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity
Braidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.
11 November 2006
06 November 2006
SUBSOL other worlds
links to art and activism, art ejournals
03 November 2006
"Contributions to a Resistant Visual Culture Glossary"
essay introducing concepts that can help critic look at visual culture more politically
"Rhetorical and Political Agency in the Habitus"
essay attempting to analyze potential agency of teachers and students
02 November 2006
essays by Grant Kester
links to Kester's full text essays on art and culture
31 October 2006
M/C Journal - Latest Issue
from Australia, looking at media internationally and politically
17 October 2006
TRANSFORMATIONS
"different modes of life embodied within local domains, yet globally interconnected at the same time"
