02 December 2006
Making Sense of Metaphors by Bernard J. Tibbetts
subtitle: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse, 1994, long full-text essay online
01 December 2006
Cyberculture Links
prepared by noted scholar, Sean Cubitt, extensive links in various categories, good links to theory
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
Reconstruction
a cultural studies ejournal, with essays on literature and film; fall 06 issue is on blogging theories and practices.
essay on academic blogging in Reconstruction
06, overview, rationale, and links to academic blogs
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
ArtLex on New Media
entry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful
DIGITALSOULS.COM - new media art | philosophy | culture
"one of the longest continuously running online galleries and e-zines dedicated to new media art, digital culture and philosophy; contributions by international artists and writers including Brian Eno, Yoko Ono, John Berger, Sean Cubitt, Susan Sontag..."
George Mason's Nonfiction Universe: a resource for nonfiction writer and nonfiction teachers
lots of material useful for documentary film, blogging, autobiography
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
by 1 otherhuge 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
Visual Anthropology Review
online journal
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.
Enculturation: Barry Mauer on Found Photographs
"The Found Photograph and the Limits of Meaning"
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.
