19 November 2006
(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography
by jlesageblog that reviews and critiques aspects of art and visual culture and photojournalism, often from an ethical standpoint
18 November 2006
Alive with Alzheimer's, the first photographic book on AD by Cathy Greenblat
by jlesageby a visual sociologist, a site for everyone
13 November 2006
translate.eipcp.net - translate.eipcp.net
by jlesage a multilingual web journal that challenges received ideas about linguistic and cultural "translation" along principles of a critique of culturalisation; social recomposition, beyond postcolonialism: a global commons; multilinguality vs. national language
11 November 2006
Howie's Home Page
by jlesagehomepage and access to many of Howard Becker's essays online; major figure in sociology of art
Confronting Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Ed'n in 21st Century
by jlesageHenry Jenkins, with Katie Clinton, Ravi Purushotma, Alice J. Robinson, and Margaret Weigel ; PDF or online in 6 parts; sensible and sparks new directions of thought; respectful of students
06 November 2006
archive : s0metim3s | Undercommons 2.0 | October | 2006
by jlesageAndrew 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
by jlesageentire book by major left social geographer available in three downloads
Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society
by jlesagevery large bibliography on Critical Whiteness Studies, broken down into various categories; not interactive and does not lead to full text essays; worth going to the library to follow up on
The geopolitics of knowledge and the colonial difference
by jlesageby 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."
03 November 2006
02 November 2006
Loïc Wacquant
by jlesagesite 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
by jlesage"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).
Continental Drift a seminar with Brian Holmes
by jlesage"articulating the immense geopolitical and economic shifts which took place between 1989-2001, the effects of those changes on bodies of governance and in turn the effects on subjectivity today"; links to political and social readings
Project Premises : Sed : A Trail of Thirst
by jlesagehypertext and visual arts project on southwest US and politics of the border; extensive essay with incorporated artistic material; new vision of documentary media, visual ethnography
31 October 2006
M/C Journal - Latest Issue
by jlesagefrom Australia, looking at media internationally and politically
24 October 2006
Fast Capitalism ejournal
by jlesageinterdisciplinary journal on information and communication in 21st cent. economy and culture; good authors; focus on new media
23 October 2006
17 October 2006
multilingual web journal
by jlesagecheck out sections to left on main page, and also writings listed under "correspondence"
translations of essays on activist art
by jlesageOn republicart, click on the words listed to the left under Discourse to see essays on topics such as: alternative economics, public sphere, precariousness, represenations, space of empire, art sabotage.
05 October 2006
Networked Public Culture
by jlesagetheses for a proposed book on this topic, to which readers are invited to contribute, with comments included in "symposia" after each chapter, first announcement. Later entries include chapter contributors, topics, comments.
01 October 2006
Marita Sturken'sHomePage
by jlesagelinks to full text of some of her essays, especially one on Katrina, weather media, and Homeland Security
re-public: re.imagining democracy
by jlesagee-journal: "process of re-imagining democracy, broadly conceived as referring to the multitude of practices that shape everyday life"; in-depth left essays from an international perspective
"Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet"
by jlesagemajor essay by Lisa Nakamura