December 2006
artists and art...the-artists.org
by jlesage & 1 other
extended visual, biographical, and textual database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists
[debates] A Concise Lexicon of / for the Digital Commons
by jlesage
by Raqs Media Collective / September 2001; keywords not usually used by folks in literature and film, yet they will want to enter the fora where these ideas have a formative influence
November 2006
Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
by jlesage & 4 others
portal to essays, museums, art work web reproductions
Notes on The Gaze
by jlesage
Daniel Chandler's overview of the use of an important concept in media theory
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
by jlesage
invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers
A People's History Of The United States - Howard Zinn | libcom.org
by jlesage
entire text of this major left history is online
contemporary literary theory, lectures and essays by John Lye
by jlesage
on many currents, also external links
Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
by jlesage
brief overview of many currents, with links and bibliography
Jahsonic, a vocabulary of culture
by jlesage
intriguing website taking up themes and critical theories/ists, with many links; check out "index" link on home page
Pierre Bourdieu and taste
by jlesage
overview, with many links; part of a larger, interesting cultural studies site
October 2006
Knowing Knowledge - a photoset on Flickr by George Siemens
by jlesage
for those interested in infoaesthetics, this set of 57 images about aspects of knowledge is a stimulating philosophical exercise and a way to ask students how they might have made an image of similar interacting concepts
screenonline
by jlesage & 1 other
"Screen" is the British Film Institute's major journal; here look at film and television headings for many short articles and resources about UK film/tv
critcrim.org
by jlesage
Essay summarizing differences between modernist and postmodernist thought, useful for grad students, those who want to catch up quickly.
September 2006
IDEA Photographic | After Modernism
by jlesage
a useful and attractive comparison of modernist and postmodernist photography, with explanations and thematic organizations
August 2006
The Observer | Review | Websites that changed the world
by jlesage & 3 others
has interesting information about founding and use of favorite websites; good classroom handout
MPI - Participant Rooms
by jlesage
excellent set of academic online essays related to "global and local factors that enable/constrain cultural production and resignification/resistance by a varierty of media audiences"
Autonomy & Solidarity | Autonomy & Solidarity Network
by jlesage
left journal: change comes from self organization of workers and oppressed groups
Upperstall.com - A Better View of Indian Cinema
by jlesage
analytic writing about Indian cinema; a good place to start if you want to start looking at films from India in a serious way
July 2006
Bloglines | About Bloglines
by jlesage
I tried a number of ways to do RSS news feeds but could not get the hang of it. This is a site that keeps a free news aggregator for you. It has an intuitive and practical interface. The disadvantage is that once again I contribute to marketing data co
Welcome to Landscapes of Capital
by jlesage
how space/time (speed), capital and globalization are represented in corporate television advertising, one of the best academic web sites in scope, graphic design, and visual analysis
Theory, Culture & Society -- short essays defining key concepts
by jlesage
very useful for theoretical studies in the humanities
June 2006
EServer: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
by jlesage
large bibliography with links to many full text essays--american studies, critical legal studies, literature, marxism, media, popular culture, postcolonialism, queer, race, women's studies
