public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags history & identity

01 December 2006

AwesomeStories.com, The Story Place of the Web

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narrative+history+pictures+encyclopedia; "safe, fast and fun way to learn the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest"

27 November 2006

eipcp.net

transversal is a multilingual web journal; interesting web design

22 November 2006

ArtLex on New Media

entry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful

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.

20 November 2006

Visual Culture and the Contemporary City

extensive course lectures with special attention to Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin's concepts, especially Benjamin on the flaneur.

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

American Lesbian Photography - Home

"aim is to provide an overview over those lesbian photographers that took pictures of lesbians, and .. to discuss their photography in relation to the time in which they worked"

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

18 November 2006

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

THE PECULIARITIES OF CYBERSPACE by Albert Benschop

complete book online, covers many areas often not dealt with, such as porn sites and dating sites; one insight that may draw you to read more: "the times that count in cyberspace are highly accelerated and strongly individualized."

16 November 2006

Geoff Stahl - Still 'Winning Space?': Updating Subcultural Theory

deals with the impact of computer mediated communication on subcultural theory; refutes role of "authenticity"; good overview of shifts in field

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.

15 November 2006

generations, translations

research and translations by a small group of people interested in developing critical approaches to philosophy and social and political thought. It involves theoretical openness as an experimental method, as an ethical principle and as a social practice

13 November 2006

Internet history

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on other pages, find history of other important Internet developments, such as Google and PayPal

translate.eipcp.net - translate.eipcp.net

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

11 November 2006

Homi Bhabha - Excerpts

excerpts from postcolonial scholar's major works, also bibliography, links, other material