public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags identity & space

01 December 2006

Orion Magazine

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

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"

28 November 2006

jlesage's reviews

my tagcloud from stumbleupon; just discovered I could import my delicious tags and comments there. Stumbleupon is my newest obsessively visited site.

27 November 2006

eipcp.net

transversal is a multilingual web journal; interesting web design

Reconstruction

a cultural studies ejournal, with essays on literature and film; fall 06 issue is on blogging theories and practices.

26 November 2006

media teacher's home page, lots of resouces, links pages

"news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics--\perspective informed by media history, political economy and social and cultural theory."

Cyberstudies webring

collection of sites with interest in cyberculture, many from the social sciences

22 November 2006

www.somedancersandmusicians.com

includes net pieces, short essays on art, quicktime movies

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.

Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University

Geography courses, both present and past, with exercises, links, bibliography. Also see Urban Studies and American Indian Studies. Understanding place as cultural should inform both fiction and non-fiction film.

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

Research on Place and Space

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huge portal site, across disciplines; "...other terms are sometimes used in place of place, such as home, dwelling, milieu, territory, and of course, space. None of these, though, are necessarily equivalent to the notion of place."

20 November 2006

Conversations with Dina

post on how students did visual ethnography using Flickr and the tags people put there

Visual Anthropology Papers

many full text papers available from visualnathropology.net

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

Photo Essays in Black and White by Herman Krieger

views of vernacular architecture and everyday use in small towns; from Eugene Oregon

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"

Welcome to Transparency

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"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