public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags essays & theory

02 December 2006

Making Sense of Metaphors by Bernard J. Tibbetts

subtitle: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse, 1994, long full-text essay online

01 December 2006

Media Art Net | Sitemap

English site overview page of a large German site for media, art, and the Internet

Hayden White, Historiography and Historiophoty

"Historiophoty" is Robert Rosentstone's term for our representing history visually and filmically; in contrast, according to White, is "historiography," representing history verbally, in prose.

Offscreen.com :: Volume 10, Issue 10

by 2 others
Canadian film journal online since 1997, wide coverage of independent and international film; many resources

Art, Design, and Visual Thinking

by 3 others
a basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin

Trinh T. Minh-ha essay

Not You/Like You: Post-Colonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference, by Trinh T. Minh-ha

30 November 2006

Synoptique

film journal from Concordia University in Montreal

27 November 2006

eipcp.net

transversal is a multilingual web journal; interesting web design

26 November 2006

Mediascape

ejournal, interdisciplinary approaches to visual culture

22 November 2006

DIGITALSOULS.COM - new media art | philosophy | culture

"one of the longest continuously running online galleries and e-zines dedicated to new media art, digital culture and philosophy; contributions by international artists and writers including Brian Eno, Yoko Ono, John Berger, Sean Cubitt, Susan Sontag..."

21 November 2006

Generation, translations and essays

translations and essays of key European cultural theorists, often Marxists; interestingly crafted site

20 November 2006

Visual Anthropology Papers

many full text papers available from visualnathropology.net

Notes on The Gaze

Daniel Chandler's overview of the use of an important concept in media theory

Welcome to Transparency

by 1 other
"interprets and critiques movies and television, news and political rhetoric, theme parks and advertising, computer games and the Internet, and other creations of contemporary culture"

Changing Approaches to Cultural Landscapes

good overview of shifts in theory and focus of studies

Design Observer: writings about design & culture

by 1 other
very well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers

Aesthetics and Visual Culture

extensive links page, from a philosophy disciplinary perspective; updated Aug. 06