public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags identity & progressive

01 December 2006

Orion Magazine

ideas of sustainability and its cultural contexts; many notable writers and artists here

20 November 2006

Joel Kovel

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

18 November 2006

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

11 November 2006

Howie's Home Page

homepage and access to many of Howard Becker's essays online; major figure in sociology of art

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).

03 November 2006

Sal Randolph

attractive web site with art and essays by artist who lives in New York and produces independent art projects involving gift economies and social architectures

02 November 2006

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

24 October 2006

one small project

learning from those who "claim leftover spaces in cities and live in unauthorized dwellings made of scavenged, leftover materials"; solicits contributions

23 October 2006

05 October 2006

Networked Public Culture

theses for a proposed book on this topic, to which readers are invited to contribute, with comments included in "symposia" after each chapter, first announcement. Later entries include chapter contributors, topics, comments.