01 December 2006
Cyberculture Links
prepared by noted scholar, Sean Cubitt, extensive links in various categories, good links to theory
30 November 2006
Miradas--in Spanish
extensive critical discussion of Latin American film and TV; Cuban site
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
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
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
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).
Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space by Neil Smith
entire book by major left social geographer available in three downloads
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
"Contributions to a Resistant Visual Culture Glossary"
essay introducing concepts that can help critic look at visual culture more politically
The Forms of Capital
Bourdieu on economic, cultural, and social capital; full text essay
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
Fast Capitalism ejournal
interdisciplinary journal on information and communication in 21st cent. economy and culture; good authors; focus on new media
19 October 2006
New Urbanism
website and organization promoting good urbanism, sustainable development, smart transportation, and transit oriented development.
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