public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags politicaleconomy & history

27 November 2006

eipcp.net

transversal is a multilingual web journal; interesting web design

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

Communication Studies Resources: The University of Iowa

one of the largest set of links, updated regularly, to all aspects of communication; many political themes; a wide range of disciplinary approaches included; highly recommended

13 November 2006

Internet history

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

11 November 2006

The Imperial Archive

influence of the British imperial process on literature from the 19th through the 21st centuries; deals with specific areas of the world that were former colonies

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).

howstuffismade.org

visual encyclopedia that documents manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products.--summative photo essays produced by students guided by faculty

The geopolitics of knowledge and the colonial difference

by Walter Mignolo; "'modernity' is not a strictly European but a planetary phenomenon to which the "excluded barbarians" have contributed, although their contribution has not been acknowledged."

Invincible Cities

photographic exploration of two poor cities, a combination of Walter Benjamin's interest in traces and overlays with systematic, extensive visual ethnography

03 November 2006

"Flaubert's Point of View" by Pierre Bourdieu

complete text of long essay; Flaubert was a touchstone for Bourdieu in establishing the concept of the field of cultural production