December 2006
November 2006
Theories of Internet Culture and Internet Textuality by Janez Strehovec, Ph.D.
by jlesageuseful and intriguingly designed website, with resources such as essays, links, keywords and definitions pages
Picture This: Literary Theory and the Study of Visual Culture
by jlesageby Paul Jay, Univ. of Chicago
Nicholas Mirzoeff : An Introduction to Visual Culture (Routledge, 1999)
by jlesageIntroduction to book, tells basic concepts, history
Book Review of "Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization"
by jlesageFilmmakers and writers need to be aware of the history and social practice "spoken" by spaces and places. This is about the politics of gardens.
Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity
by jlesageBraidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.
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
"Contributions to a Resistant Visual Culture Glossary"
by jlesageessay introducing concepts that can help critic look at visual culture more politically
Jahsonic, a vocabulary of culture
by jlesageintriguing website taking up themes and critical theories/ists, with many links; check out "index" link on home page
October 2006
A Rape in Cyberspace By Julian Dibbell
by jlesage1993, complete text of essay delineating important event in Internet history
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