01 December 2006
Orion Magazine
by jlesageideas of sustainability and its cultural contexts; many notable writers and artists here
30 November 2006
Miradas--in Spanish
by jlesageextensive critical discussion of Latin American film and TV; Cuban site
20 November 2006
Joel Kovel
by jlesagemany of this important writer's essays online, a psychoanalyst who has long been a political commentator
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).
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
Sal Randolph
by jlesageattractive web site with art and essays by artist who lives in New York and produces independent art projects involving gift economies and social architectures
"Contributions to a Resistant Visual Culture Glossary"
by jlesageessay introducing concepts that can help critic look at visual culture more politically
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.
Dialogic: Giorgio Agamben: Means Without Ends
by jlesagea collection of ideas from Agamben that summarizes some of his key ideas; blog from "a dialogic provocateur searching for viable alternative/oppositional cultures." Much on film; many links.
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
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
18 October 2006
Movement by Grigorio Agamben
by jlesageauthor traces concept of movement from Aristotle and asks us to "rethink the concept of movement and its relation to biopolitics."
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.