public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags politicaleconomy & identity

01 December 2006

27 November 2006

eipcp.net

transversal is a multilingual web journal; interesting web design

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."

20 November 2006

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

Neoliberalizing Space

essay on updating space-place theory for contemporary economics

13 November 2006

Internet history

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

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

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

Henry Jenkins: Taking the You Out of YouTube?

what kinds of censorship face You Tube and My Space, in addition to the site's ownership of content?

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

Radical Graphics

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

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