04 December 2006
U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights - Yahoo! News
Film professors can copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.
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
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
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
Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
"multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era... how technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations...including issues of globalization, mobility, power, and access"
11 November 2006
A People's History Of The United States - Howard Zinn | libcom.org
entire text of this major left history is online
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
Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space by Neil Smith
entire book by major left social geographer available in three downloads
03 November 2006
"Contributions to a Resistant Visual Culture Glossary"
essay introducing concepts that can help critic look at visual culture more politically
02 November 2006
Radical Graphics
large collection organized by thematic and political categories; useful for office door poster, flyer, or demonstration
Loïc Wacquant
site of sociologist who was often a co-author with Pierre Bourdieu; many links to full text essays online.
01 November 2006
The Art of Rent by David Harvey, SR 2002 | Socialist Register
"a widespread belief that there is something special about certain cultural products and events (be they in the arts, theatre, music, cinema, architecture or more broadly in localized ways of life, heritage, collective memories and affective communities).
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
Mute magazine-"Time, Labour & Social Domination"
long review by Moishe Postone; in-depth analysis of contemporary theories of non-material labor in information field
19 October 2006
New Urbanism
website and organization promoting good urbanism, sustainable development, smart transportation, and transit oriented development.
15 October 2006
The Google YouTube Tango
essay about the political consequences of marketing based on Internet-use data
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