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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags identity & politics

01 December 2006

Trinh T. Minh-ha essay

Not You/Like You: Post-Colonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference, by Trinh T. Minh-ha

27 November 2006

eipcp.net

transversal is a multilingual web journal; interesting web design

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

Welcome to Transparency

by 1 other
"interprets and critiques movies and television, news and political rhetoric, theme parks and advertising, computer games and the Internet, and other creations of contemporary culture"

Changing Approaches to Cultural Landscapes

good overview of shifts in theory and focus of studies

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

Local consumption cultures in a globalizing world by Peter Jackson

Focusing on the resilience of distinctive local consumption cultures, with evidence from three contrasting consumption cultures: consumption and 'public culture' in India, 'consumer nationalism' in China, and 'artful consumption' in Russia.

Geographies of Responsibility by Doreen Massey

on political implications of considering space within political discussions of responsibility and identity

19 November 2006

Open Source Radio Show

"Every time we have an idea for an hour of radio we post it to the site." Via blog viewers help build shows which air after research.

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

16 November 2006

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

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

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

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

07 November 2006

WWF - A way of life threatened by climate change

an audio/slideshow with native peoples of Alaska testifying to effects of climate change

06 November 2006

archive : s0metim3s | Undercommons 2.0 | October | 2006

Andrew Ross: “Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property” (American Quarterly, 58:3, 2006).

02 November 2006

"Cyberfeminism with a difference" by Rosi Braidotti

an important essay building on the work of Donna Haraway, emphasizing the kinds of empoverishment that come with globalization, and the possibilities for new forms of collective identity in cyberspace, while eschewing utopianism.

Radical Graphics

large collection organized by thematic and political categories; useful for office door poster, flyer, or demonstration

01 November 2006

Project Premises : Sed : A Trail of Thirst

hypertext and visual arts project on southwest US and politics of the border; extensive essay with incorporated artistic material; new vision of documentary media, visual ethnography