CULTURAL STUDIES
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GENERAL RESOURCES
- Alt.Culture ("an encyclopedia of '90s youth culture that spans grunge and gangsta, indie rock and indie film, cyberpunk and street fashion, extreme sports and political correctness, infomercials and zines. alt.culture both documents and participates in the nexus of popular culture and digital media"; searchable) (Nathaniel Wice and Steven Daly)
- Artificial Culture: Synthetic Anthropology ("Artificial culture is culture recreated inside a computer . . . Culture in this view is seen as a complex adaptive system. Such an experimental program may help to clarify the positions of the various schools of scientific and humanistic thought. The computer model itself is an instantiation of an emergent materialist epistemology") (Nicholas Gessler, UCLA)
- Biblioteca Virtual De Estudos Culturais / Cultural Studies Virtual Library (in Portuguese and English) (Prosiga / PACC [Advanced Program of Contemporary Culture], Federal U., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- Selected Resources:
- Research Projects
- Books, Articles, and Other Texts
- Periodicals
- Bibliographies
- Virtual Libraries
- Museums and Cultural Centers
- Black Cultural Studies Web Site (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee)
- Border Crossings (links to sites relating to the various "borders" that demarcate the postmodern and postindustrial social imagination) (Karla Tonella / Communication Studies, U. Iowa)
- Selected Pages
- Cyborgs
- Gender
- LesBiGay
- Diaspora
- La Frontera
- Border Incidents
- Centre for Social Theory and Technology, Keele U.
- Critical and Cultural Theory Resources (George Washington U. Program in Human Sciences)
- Critical Approaches to Culture, Communications, and Hypermedia (Ron Burnett, McGill U.)
- Cultural Studies and Critical Theory (English Server, Carnegie Mellon U.)
- Cultural Studies Central (Robin Markowitz)
- Dino Felluga (Stanford U.), "Modern Theoretical Discourses" (pedagogically-oriented set of explanations, definitions, and questions that applies concepts in contemporary literary theory to two sonnets from Spenser's Amoretti; covers New Historicism, cultural materialism, feminism, and psychoanalysis)
- Cultural Studies Resources (Communication Studies, U. Iowa)
- Digital Media: Technology, Postmodernism and Other Stuff (annotated guide to online resources) (Communication Studies Dept., U. Iowa)
- Disinformation: The Subculture Search Engine (annotated "alternative" guide/links to news and society; "the search service of choice for individuals looking for information on current affairs, politics, new science and the 'hidden information,' that seldom seems to slip through the cracks of the corporate owned media conglomerates. . . . Primarily the database draws from quality news sources") (Richard Metzger, et al.)
- FrontList Books: Scholarly Books on the Web (online bookstore offering "scholarly and literary titles to readers with decidedly theoretical interests;" emphasis on recently published and soon to be published titles from over 175 publishers in "literary, feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory; cinema, literary, gender, women's, asian, latin american, and cultural studies; fiction, philosophy, anthropology, history, and poetry"; allows browsing by category and includes brief descriptions of books) (Note: requires "cookies" to be enabled in your browser before you can order with the "shopping cart" feature; if you ordinarily disable cookies [the information files Web sites write and read on your computer], you must enable the feature temporarily)
- Selected Categories:
- African-American Studies
- Anthropology
- Art History & Theory
- Cinema Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Culture & Technology
- Culture & the Law
- Feminist Theory / Women's Studies
- Gender & Sexuality
- Queer Theory / Gay & Lesbian Studies
- French Stuff (French Theory)
- Literary NOT Theory
- Literary Studies/Mostly Theory
- Performand Studies/Performing Arts
- Philosophy
- Photography
- Political Theory / Politics
- (Post)Colonial Studies
- Race & Culture
- Science Studies
- Gallery of Social Structures: Network Visualization ("documents work in progress in our efforts to visualize social structures. The aim is to develop experience how automatic procedures can be combined with aesthetics to ease insight into usually complex phenomena") (Lothar Krempel)
- History of English Studies Page (page for the study of the development of English literary studies as a cultural and global force; cultural-critical and postcolonial perspectives upon the problem are anchored upon a series of texts or excerpts from authors both past and present--including Adam Smith, Thomas Macaulay, Michel Foucault, Gayatri Spivak, and others) (Rita Raley, U. Minnesota) | Bibliography
- Information Resources for Information Professionals ("This is a guide to basic resources information professionals use when looking to the written record to solve a problem or learn more about ourselves as a profession.") (Joe Ryan)
- Injustice Studies: An On-Line Journal (refereed)
- K.i.s.s. of the Panopticon: Cultural Theory and New Media (plain-speaking site that gives "people a quick, user-friendly, one-stop shopping guide to new media literacy, as well as cultural/critical theory and its relationship with communications and new media, including the Internet") (Doug Bicket, U. Washington)
- Selected Resources:
- Comprehensive Index (ambitious hypertext glossary of major authors and topics in cultural theory; supplies brief descriptions or intros)
- So What Is New Media Literacy Anyway?
- Special Topics (including "nature of the self," "postcolonialism and new media," "national identity," "British press in Europe," "machine intelligence," "how to read semiotics," "screen theory," and others)
- Marist College English Web: Postmodern Theory, Cultural Studies, and Hypertext (Tom Goldpaugh)
- Medieval Cultural Studies: A Basic Reading List (Martin Irvine, Georgetown U., and Michael Uebel, U. Kentucky)
- Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (Concordia U.) | Links
- The New Economic Literary Criticism (Web site for the Society for Critical Exchange project on this topic; includes info on the conference, related publications, and links)
- New Historicism (SWIRL)
- The Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy (Scott H. Moore, Baylor U.)
- Paradigms: Wacky Wordgame of Cultural Criticism and Limited Agency (forms-based "game" of cultural criticism; first question: "who was responsible for the death of the subject?" - multiple choices begin, "Foucault? . . .") (Thomas J. Thurston, Yale U.)
- Popcultures.com (Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center) | General Links (extensive, well-organized set of links and resources)
- Scholê: Teaching Culture in a Non-Linear Environment (theory and resources for rethinking pedagogy in a post-canonical and hypertextual environment; includes a well-selected set of online essays on teaching, culture, and digital media) (Rob van Kranenburg, Teacher Training Dept. in Gent [DLO])
- The/Untimely/Past (bibliographies and links "relating to the intersection of historiographic practice with poststructuralism, postmodernism, and allied areas of theory / practice"; partially annotated and includes some quotations from the works; also includes specialized bibliographies on Foucault, postcolonial / subaltern studies, discourse of historiography) (Jeffrey Hearn, U. Maryland, College Park)
- "What is Culture?" Page (definitions and curricular resources related to the topic of "culture") (Eric Miraglia, Richard Law, Peg Collins; Washington State U.)
AUTHORS, WRITINGS, INTERVIEWS (including sociologists)
(Note: Some Marxist theorists who have had a broad cultural-critical reception are included here. See also Marxist, Frankfurt School, & Later-Marxist Critique below. There is no firm distinction between these categories. See also Historiography on History page.)
- General Author Resources
- Cultural Studies Articles, Papers & Presentations (Sarah Zupko)
- Cultural Studies Theorists and Critics (Sarah Zupko)
- Cultural Studies Papers and Articles (Communication Studies, U. Iowa)
- Larry R. Ridener (Radford U.), Social Theory (course site that includes substantial excerpts from many online texts)
- Bibliographic References (Sarah Zupko)
- Pre-1860
- Auguste Comte, On the Positivistic Approach to Society (from The Positive Philosophy) (1830-42; trans. 1854) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Karl Marx (see Marxism below)
- Late 19th- and 20th-Century
- Gladys Adamson, "Posmodernidad y la lógica cultural del capitalismo tardío" (1997) (Sincronia)
- Ron Alcalay, "Morphing Out of Identity Politics: Black or White and Terminator 2 (1995) (Bad Subjects)
- Louis Althusser (see under Marxism below)
- Benedict Anderson
- Synopsis of Imagined Communities (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Houston A. Baker, Jr. Page (Black Cultural Studies Web)
- Jean Baudrillard (on Literary Theory page)
- Daniel Bell
- Synopsis of The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: Chap. 6, ''Who Will Rule? Politicians and Technocrats in the Post-Industrial Society'' (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- The End of Ideology (Chap. 13 on "The Mood of Three Generations" and excerpt from the Conclusion) (Al Fireis, U. Penn)
- Walter Benjamin (on Literary Theory page)
- Pierre Bourdieu
- The Bourdieu Forum (Marko Toivanen)
- Bourdieu List Archive (Spoons Collective)
- Synopsis of Distinction: Chap. 5, "The Sense of Distinction" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Synopsis of Outline of a Theory of Practice: Chap. 2, "Structure and the Habitus" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Synopsis of Toril Moi, "Appropriating Bourdieu's Feminist Theory and Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology of Culture" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Denis Byrne, "Traces of '65: Sites and Memories of the Post-Coup Killings in Bali" (1998) (essay that "reflects on the absence of physical traces of the 1965 killings and looks to the role of memory in commemoration") (Australian Humanities Review)
- Critical Art Ensemble, "The Technology Of Uselessness") (CTHEORY)
- Ralf Dahrendorf, Classes in Post-Capitalist Society (from Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Manthia Diawara
- Manthia Diawara Page (Black Cultural Studies Web)
- "Englishness and Blackness: Cricket as Discourse on Colonialism" (1990) (Black Cultural Studies Web / Callaloo)
- Emile Durkheim
- The Durkheim university Pages (Robert Alun Jones, U. Illinois in Urbana-Champaign) (temporarily unavailable)
- Selected Resources:
- Durkheim Timeline
- Glossary of Terms and Concepts
- Bibliography of Works by Durkheim
- The Division of Labor in Society (excerpt) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Synopsis of On the Division of Labor in Society (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Synopsis of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- What is a Social Fact? (from The Rules of the Sociological Method) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Simon During (U. Melbourne), "Teaching Culture" (1997) ("The heyday of English literature as an academic discipline is over. As worldwide enrollments show, interest in English is losing ground to a wider spread of contemporary culture forms from advertising and the internet to cartoons and art movies -- what we call cultural studies") (Australian Humanities Review)
- Responses:
- Don Anderson (U. Sydney), "Teachers, Intellectuals, Politics" ("Surely one had a choice: merely to accept such interventionist restructuring of universities . . . or, on the other hand, to critique such New Statism"; extracted from longer piece published in 1995)
- John Frow (U. Queensland), "Literature, Culture, Mirrors" (critique of both During's theses and Anderson's response; "The opposition set up here between cultural and literary studies is a phoney one. Cultural studies is a way of contextualizing texts, of any kind - of analysing the social relations of textuality; and there's no reason why it shouldn't include literary texts and literary regimes amongst its proper objects of knowledge")
- Norbert Elias
- "Processes of State Formation and Nation Building" (Robert van Krieken, U. Sydney)
- Norbert Elias and Process Sociology (Robert van Krieken, U. Sydney)
- Robert van Krieken (U. Sydney), Norbert Elias: Key Sociologist (support site for van Krieken's book; will include drafts of chapters)
- Itamar Even-Zohar (Tel Aviv U.)
- Culture Planning and the Market: Making and Maintaining Socio-Semiotic Entities" (1994)
- "Factors and Dependencies in Culture" (1996)
- "Language Conflict and National Identity" (1985)
- "Polysystem Theory" (1997) ("The idea that socio-semiotic phenomena, i.e., sign-governed human patterns of communication [such as culture, language, literature], could more adequately be understood and studied if regarded as systems rather than conglomerates of disparate elements has become one of the leading ideas of our time in most sciences of man")
- The Role of Literature in the Making of the Nations of Europe (1993)
- Andrew Feenberg (San Diego State U.), "Alternative Modernity? Playing the Japanese Game of Culture" (1994-95) (on Go gaming, rationality, culture, and non-Western modernities)
- Friedrich Engels (see under Marxism below)
- Michel Foucault
- General Resources
- Michel Foucault Page (Campus Community, Southern Oregon U.)
- Foucault Resources (Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
- Michel Foucault's Interpretive Analytics (interpretive explanation of Foucault's work from the Beginner's Guide to Research in the History of Science
- Foucault (biography, links to online texts, links to related Web pages, and papers) (Paul Ashton)
- Foucault Page (A Genealogy of Foucault) (Ben Attias)
- Foucault Page (Patrick Jennings)
- Foucault Page (Chris Marvin & Frank Sikernitsky, Trinity C.)
- World of Michel Foucault Page
- Foucault List: Archives (U. Virginia)
- The Untimely Past: Foucault Bibliography (extensive bibliography of primary and secondary works) (Jeffrey Hearn)
- Writings
- A Summary of Foucault's "The Discourse on Language" (John Lye, Brock U.)
- Synopsis of Foucault's The History of Sexuality, Vol. I (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Synopsis of Foucault's "Nietzsche, Geneology, History" (John Lye, Brock U.)
- Michel Foucault: "What is an Author?" (lecture notes created for a course) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)
- Secondary Literature
- Michael L. Humphries, "Michel Foucault on Writing and the Self in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and Confessions of St. Augustine" (1996) (Arethusa)
- Lois Shawver, "Notes on Reading Foucault's The Birth of the Clinic (1998)
- Other
- Parrhesiast ("Parrhesiastic games include the unabridged version of Michel Foucault's Discourse and Truth: The Problematization of Parrhesia," compiled from Foucault's lectures in English at UC Berkeley in 1983, ed. Joseph Pearson) (Camille Duchene and Julien Saucourt)
- Picture of Foucault (Philosopher's Gallery, U. Waterloo)
- Clifford Geertz
- Definitions of Culture (quotes and paraphrases of Geertz on the notion of "culture")
- Synopsis of "Deep Play:'' Notes on a Balinese Cockfight" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Synopsis of "Religion as a Cultural System" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Anthony Giddens
- 'Living in the world': Dilemmas of the Self (from Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Paul Gilroy Page (Black Cultural Studies Web)
- Erving Goffman
- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (excerpts) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.):
- Synopsis of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, pp. 1-76 (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- John Goldthorpe
- Synopsis of Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Alvin Gouldner (see under Marxism below)
- Jürgen Habermas
- Steve Stickle (Northern Illinois U.), "An Introduction to J. Habermas"
- Habermas Resources (Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
- Habermas List Archive (Spoon Collective)
- Theorems of Legitimation Crisis (from Legitimation Crisis) (Larry R. Ridener, Baylor U.)
- Stuart Hall (Open U., UK)
- Stuart Hall Page (Black Cultural Studies Web)
- Cultural Studies: Stuart Hall (slide lecture) (Robert T. Craig & Karen Tracy)
- Donna Haraway
- General Resources
- Donna Haraway Page (Campus Community, Southern Oregon U.)
- Hyperlink to Donna Haraway (Reverse Transcript)
- Reverse Transcript: Hyperlink to Donna Haraway (extensive Haraway page based in Japan)
- Robert M. Young (Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, U. Sheffield), "Science, Ideology and Donna Haraway" (1992)
- Writings
- "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" (1991) (History & Philosophy of Science, Stanford U.)
- Related Links
- Cyborgs (Karla Tonella / Communication Studies, U. Iowa)
- Cyborgs Links (Communication Studies Dept., U. Iowa)
- P. K. Jamison (Indiana U.), "Contradictory Spaces: Pleasure and the Seduction of the Cyborg Discourse" (1994) (Arachnet)
- Language Visualization and Multilayer Text Analysis ("prototype tool that can study language/discourse phenomena in three-dimensional space. The idea was to develop a tool which would allow a researcher to explore interactively the structures and typologies of discursive formation in large samples of textual data and develop new techniques for reading and interpreting text space"; first application is to Donna Haraway's essay, "Cyborg Manifesto") (Antonio Gonzalez-Walker, Cornell U.)
- John R. R. Christie (U. Leeds), "A Tragedy for Cyborgs" (1993) ("This essay therefore adopts strategies whose overall effect is to extend the relays of cyborg imagery well beyond those postulated in [Haraway's] "Manifesto," in order to recognize the cultural and political complexity of cyborg semiosis, and to grasp the aporias that such extension produces for Haraway's writing") (Configurations)
- Scott Heller, "Wearying of Cultural Studies, Some Scholars Rediscover Beauty" (1998) (article for Chronicle of Higher Education "Colloquy" discussion on "renewed attention to aesthetic criteria in criticism")
- Earl Jackson, Jr. (U. California, Santa Cruz), Unstill Life / Cultural Studies (online writings by Jackson; includes encounters with the press)
- Arthur Jafa Page (Black Cultural Studies Web)
- C.L.R. James (see under Marxism below)
- Frederic Jameson
- Frederic Jameson (bibliography) (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource/Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
- Frederic Jameson Page (Campus Community, Southern Oregon U.)
- Synopsis of "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Sean Homer (Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, U. Sheffield), "Fredric Jameson and the Limits of Postmodern Theory"
- "Theory in the Lobby of the Bonaventure Hotel: The Case of Fredric Jameson" (Re:WIRED; Workshop for the Invention and Research of Electronic Discourse, U. of Florida)
- Nancy Kaplan (U. of Baltimore), "E-Literacies: Politexts, Hypertexts and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print"
- Douglas Kellner (UCLA), "Intellectuals and New Technologies"
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- "The Structural Study of Myth" (substantial excerpt covering most of the discussion of the Oedipus myth) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Structural Study of Myth (lecture notes on the essay) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)
- Tristes Tropiques (brief excerpt) (Industrial Strength Travel)
- Wahneema Lubiano Page (Black Cultural Studies Web)
- Karl Marx (see Marxism below)
- George Herbert Mead, Mind, Self, and Society (excerpt) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Robert K. Merton, Bureaucratic Structure and Personality (from Social Theory and Social Structure) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- C. Wright Mills
- The Power Elite (excerpt) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Howard S. Becker (U. California, Santa Barbara), "Professional Sociology: The Case of C. Wright Mills" (1994)
- Vance Packard, The Status Seekers (1959) (excerpts) (chapters 1, 2, 10, 19, 22) (Al Filreis, U. Penn)
- Vilfredo Pareto, The Circulation of Elites (from The Mind and Society) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Talcott Parsons
- Synopsis of Institutions and Social Evolution (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Sex Roles in the American Kinship System (from "The Kinship System of the Contemporary United States," in Essays in Sociological Theory) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Synopsis of Essays in Sociological Theory: Chap. 2, The Professions and Social Structure (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Synopsis of "Suggestions for a Sociological Approach to the Theory of Organizations" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Action Systems and Social Systems (from The System of Modern Societies) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- The Unit Act of Action Systems (from The Structure of Social Action) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Marjorie Perloff (Stanford U.), "Something Is Happening, Mr. Jones" (Electronic Book Review)
- Mark Poster (U. California, Irvine): Home Page
- Essays
- Courses
- Interviews
- Erick Heroux, "Interview with Mark Poster: Community, New Media, Post-Humanism" (1995) (Undercurrent)
- Interview in Seulemonde
- Nico Poulantzas
- Synopsis of Political Power and Social Classes (sections on the concept of politics) (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- David N. Rodowick (Cornell U.), Preface to The Crisis of Political Modernism: Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Theory (2nd ed., 1994)
- Edward W. Said (bibliography) (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource/Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
- Ken Sanes, Transparency (site featuring essays by a former newspaper columnist and freelance writer on cultural studies and cyberculture; representative pieces include "Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: Holocaust as Metaphor," "The Electric Horseman: Escape from the Garden of Image Commodities," "The New Culture War," and "Situation Comedies and the Liberating Power of Sadism")
- Rakefet Sela-Sheffy (Tel Aviv U.), "Models and Habituses: Problems in the Idea of Cultural Repertoire" (1997)
- Bernhard Serexhe (Center for Art and Media ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany), "Deregulation / Globalisation: The Loss of Cultural Diversity?" (CTHEORY)
- Georg Simmel
- (Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
- "Conflict (Kampf)" (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Synopsis of On Individuality and Social Forms, ed. Donald Levine (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Synopsis of The SocSimmel Resourcesiology of Georg Simmel, trans. Kurt Wolff (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- "The Stranger" (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Julie Stephens (Victoria U. of Technology), "Cultural Outlaws, Political Organizers" (Excerpt from Anti-Disciplinary Protest: Sixties Radicalism and Postmodernism (1998) (Australian Humanities Review)
- Frederick Winslow Taylor
- Yonatan Reshef (U. Alberta), Taylor: Scientific Management (brief explanation of Taylorism)
- Terry Threadgold, "Cultural Studies, Feminist Values: Strange Bedfellows or Sisters in Crime?" (1996) (Australian Humanities Review)
- Synopsis of Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Ferdinand Tönnies
- On Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft (from Community and Society: Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Synopsis of "Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- María Elena Martínez Torres (U. California, Berkeley), "The Internet: Post-Modern Struggle by the Dispossessed of Modernity" (1997) ("The paradox of the revolution in technology that took world capitalism to a new stage of structure and organization-globalization-is that exactly the same technology has also made possible the creation of a counter-hegemonic movement, the global civil society spurred on by the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico") (Sincronia)
- Thorsten Veblen
- The Theory of the Leisure Class (McMaster U.)
- "Conspicuous Consumption" (from The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Paul Virilio (on Literary Theory page)
- Immanuel Wallerstein (see under Marxism below)
- Gabriel Watson & Jason Brown (U. California, Santa Barbara), "Cultural Proesthetics: The Mutational Aesthetics of the Late Organic" (multimedia, hypertext work) (Speed)
- Max Weber
- Brief Intro to Weber (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Yonatan Reshef (U. Alberta), Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (brief explanation of Weber)
- Characteristics of Bureaucracy (from Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Weber on Power and Bureaucracy (from the point of view of business culture) (Business Open Learning Archive)
- Synopsis of Economy and Society (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Synopsis of Methodology of the Social Sciences (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Synopsis of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- The Spirit of Capitalism (from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Cornel West & His Critics (Brent Edwards)
- William H. Whyte
- The Organization Man (1956) (substantial selections) (Al Filreis, U. Penn.)
- New York Times Obituary for William H. Whyte (1999) (Al Filreis, U. Penn.)
MARXIST, COMMUNIST, FRANKFURT SCHOOL, & LATER-MARXIST CRITIQUE
(Note: Marxist or Marx-influenced theorists who have also had a more broadly or less-strictly Marxist cultural-critical reception are included above under cultural-studies Authors, Writings, Interviews. There is no firm distinction between categories in this instance.)
- General Resources
- Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice
- Sean Homer (Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, U. Sheffield), "A Short History of the Marxist Literary Group"
- Marxism (SWIRL)
- Marxism List: Archives (U. Virginia)
- Marxist Sites on the Web (SheBeen)
- Marxism and Ideology (lecture notes created for a course) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)
- Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society (tables of contents & links)
- Marxism/Communism
- Marx & Engels
- Home Pages:
- Karl Marx (Tom Stone)
- Marxism Page (Rick Kuhn, Australian National U.)
- Writings:
- The Marx/Engels Archive (Ken Campbell)
- Marx & Engels WWW Library (archive of online works organized chronologically) (Marx/Engels Archive)
- Karl Marx / Frederick Engels Thumbnail Chronology
- Marx and Engels Writings
- Marx & Engels
- The Communist Manifesto (study guide) (Paul Brians, Washington State U.)
- Marx
- Capital (vol. 1) (Marx/Engels Archive)
- Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Marx/Engels Archive)
- Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (Marx/Engels Archive)
- The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Marx/Engels Archive)
- Grundrisse der Kritick der Politischen Ökonomie (Marx/Engels Archive)
- Letters to Arnold Ruge (Marx/Engels Archive)
- On the Jewish Question (Marx/Engels Archive)
- Theses on Feuerbach (Marx/Engels Archive)
- Wage-Labor and Capital (Marx/Engels Archive)
- Engels
- Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy (Marx/Engels Archive)
- "The Condition of England" (Review of Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present) (Marx/Engels Archive)
- The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Marx/Engels Archive)
- Synopsis of Capital, vol. 1 (Marx/Engels Archive)
- Other Socialist/Communist Authors
- Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky, Revolutionary Silhouettes (1923) (Marx/Engels Archive)
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Online Archive (Marx/Engels Archive)
- Leon Trotsky Online Archive (Marx/Engels Archive)
- Josef Stalin Online Archive (Marx/Engels Archive)
- Mao Tse-Tung Online Archive (Marx/Engels Archive)
- Frankfurt School
- Critical Theory & the Frankfurt School
- Frankfurt School List: Archives (U. Virginia)
- Theodor Adorno
- John Lechte, Biography of Adorno abstracted from Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers (1994)
- Adorno Page (David Gauntlett, U. Leeds)
- Adorno Resources (Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
- Walter Benjamin (on Literary Theory page)
- Max Horkheimer
- Horkheimer Resources (Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
- Herbert Marcuse
- Marcuse Resources (Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
- (See also Jürgen Habermas)
- Later-Marxist Critique
- Louis Althusser
- Synopsis of "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- C.L.R. James
- C.L.R. James Page (Andy Blunden)
- "The Property" (excerpt from Black Jacobins (ARM)
- Notes on Dialectics (excerpts) (Andy Blunden):
- The Doctrine of Being
- The Doctrine of Essence
- Review and Leninist Interlude
- Appearance and Actuality
- The Doctrine of the Notion
- Leninism and the Notion
- Paul Le Blanc, "Challenges of a Black Revolutionary: The Marxism of C. L. R. James"
- Alvin Gouldner
- The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class (synopsis) (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- "The Norm of Reciprocity: A Preliminary Statement" (1960) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Fredric Jameson (see above)
- "Marxist Approaches to Mass Media" (Daniel Chandler)
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- Synopsis of "The Rise and Future Demise of the Capitalist World System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century (excerpt) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Eric Olin Wright
- Synopsis of "Class Boundaries and Contradictory Class Locations" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- World-Systems Archive (U. Colorado, Boulder)
POPULAR / MASS CULTURE STUDIES (including "leisure," "everyday life," and "subculture" topics; see alsoConsumerism & Advertising Studies on Postindustrial Business Theory page)
- Academy of Leisure Studies
- Ian Buchahan (U. Tasmania), "Deleuze and Pop Music" (1997) (Australian Humanities Review)
- Karen Burns, "Zones of Theory and Amusement: Video Arcades and Luna Park" (1996) (Globe E-Journal)
- Bibliography: Consumer Culture and Leisure (Don Slater, U. London)
- Consumer Culture Research Site (Don Slater, Goldsmiths C., U. London)
- Digital Nostalgia (a "high-tech memory lane" of now antique computer games) (Marc Sakey)
- Fashion (from the view of Baudrillard, Marx, Freud) (part of U. Florida Fetish project)
- Joanne Finkelstein (Monash U.), "Chic Theory" (1997) (on the idea and practice of fashion) (Australian Humanities Review)
- Response Essays:
- Ruth Barcan (U. Western Sydney), Response (1997)
- Jennifer Craik (Griffith U.), "Chic to Chic" (1997)
- H-PCAACA Discussion Group
- Stuart Hall (see above)
- Henry A. Giroux (Pennsylvania State U.)
- "Doing Cultural Studies: Youth and the Challenge of Pedagogy"
- "Slacking Off: Border Youth and Postmodern Education" (1994) (JAC Online)
- Gerhard Jaritz (Krems an der Donau/Budapest), "Everyday Life in the Middle Ages and Digital Image Analysis" ("research into the history of everyday life and of material culture have been starting to concentrate on the analysis of [patterns of] messages borne by images") (CHart)
- Josh Kun, "Reading, Writing, & Rap: Literacy as Rap Sound System" (1994) (Bad Subjects)
- Tony Lack, "Consumer Society and Authenticity: The (Il)logic of Punk Practices" (Undercurrent)
- The McDonaldization of Society (brief digest of the "MacDonaldization" thesis for a course page) (Robert O. Keel, U. Missouri, St. Louis)
- Manchester Institute for Popular Culture Website (Manchester Metropolitan U.)
- Chris MacNeil, "The Paradox of Liberalism versus Illiberalism: The British Middle Class Portrayed in 1980s Popular Culture" (1994)(Undercurrent)
- Robin Markowitz, "Canonizing the Popular"
- Hugh Miller (Nottingham Trent U., UK), "The Social Psychology of Objects" (1995)
- Placing (a series of product "epiphanies" demonstrating the thesis that contemporary "placing" [product placements in movies, TV shows, and sporting events] "captures the essence of a new kind of selfhood for the '90s. No longer do people attempt to define themselves through the products they consume, best exemplified by the wanton excess and spectacle of the last decade. Instead, people define themselves in relation to the products that are ever-present in their everyday lives - they make meaning and significance of the multiple interdependences between themselves, others, and name-brand products. . . . Branding is corporate; placing is populist and personal") (Carl Steadman)
- Steve Mizrach, "Iterative Discourse and the Formation of New Subcultures" (essay using subcultural studies approach to discuss "hackers," "techno/ravers," and "modern primitives")
- Pop Culture (Communication Studies, U. Iowa)
- Popular Culture Dept., Bowling Green State U. | Research Resources in Popular Culture Studies
- Postmodern Culture: Pop-Cult Columns (Note: as of 1997 this online journal [including most back issues] is issued through the Johns Hopkins U. Press "Project Muse"; it is now accessible only to users at subscribing institutions)
- Repetition: The David Bowie Critical Analysis Page (essays on Bowie, his music, art, films, etc.)
- Retro: The Magazine of Classic 20th Century Popular Culture (motto: "anything that was ever cool")
- Steven Shaviro (U. Washington), Doom Patrols ("theoretical fiction about postmodernism and popular culture"; full text of book)
- Kim Stone (U. California, Santa Barbara), "Of Patented Ladybugs and Beneficial Nematodes: The Organic Garden as Foucauldian Heterotopia" (1997) (Thresholds)
- Thomas Swiss (Drake U.),Youth Music and Culture (course)
- Undercurrent: An Online Journal for the Analysis of the Present
POSTCOLONIAL (AND COLONIAL) STUDIES (see also Globalism below and Postcolonial /Anglophone courses on English Course page)
- General Resources
- Introduction to Postcolonial Studies (well-crafted overview with sub-pages on issues and authors) (Deepika Petraglia-Bahri / Postcolonial Studies Site, Emory U. English Dept.)
- Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English (extensive, well-organized site) (George P. Landow, Brown U.)
- Top-Level Links:
- Historical Contexts
- Political Contexts
- Religious Contexts
- Science and Technology
- Postcolonial and Postimperial Authors
- African Postcolonial Literature in English
- Literature of the Indian Subcontinent in English
- Literature in Australia and New Zealand
- Visual Arts
- Postcolonial Theory
- Selected Resources:
- Theorists and Critics
- Themes
- Terms
- Imagery
- Gender Matters
- Bibliography
- Commonwealth Essays and Studies ("critical studies concerning post-colonial literatures in English")
- Postcolonial Studies Site (well-developed site) (Deepika Petraglia-Bahri, English Dept.)
- ASEDA: Aboriginal Studies Electronic Archive(Australian National Univ.)
- African Postcolonial Literature in English (George Landow, Brown U.)
- Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935 (Jim Zwick, Syracuse U.)
- Selected Links:
- Sentenaryo/Centennial ("A Collaborative Exploration of the Cultural and Political Impacts of the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American War")
- Stereoscopic Visions of War and Empire (juxtaposes stereoscopic images distributed at the turn of the century with excerpts from letters sent home by U.S. soldiers fighting in the Phillipines and printed in local newspapers)
- Mr. Dooley on Imperialism: Satire by Finley Peter Dunne ("Cartoon Finley Peter Dunne [1867-1936] began to write "Mr. Dooley" columns in Chicago newspapers long before the Spanish-American War began, but his national reputation was a product of that war")
- Anti-Imperialist Writings by Edgar Lee Masters
- Voice of the Filipinos (editorials from El Renacimiento)
- Jim Zwick (Syracuse U.), "Imperialists and Anti-Imperialists: The Roots of American Non-Intervention Movements" (1990) (Friends of the Filipino People Bulletin)
- Daniel B. Schirmer, "U.S. Racism and Intervention in the Third World, Past and Present" (1994) (Friends of the Filipino People Bulletin / Jim Zwick)
- African Americans in the Anti-Imperialist Movement
- John Beverley (U. Pittsburgh), "On the Project of the Latin American Subaltern Studies" (1995)
- Nandi Bhatia, "Kipling's Burden: Representing Colonial Authority and Constructing the 'Other' through Kimball O'Hara and Babu Hurree Chander in Kim" (U. Texas)
- V. Carchidi, "Come Into My Web: Literary Postcolonialism in the Information Technology Age" (1997)
- Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas (U. Penn. Library exhibition from the collections of the Jay I. Kislak Foundation and the Rosenbach Museum & Library; includes images, explanations, and essays)
- DevelopNet News: On-Line News and Views on Technology Transfer in International Development (newsletter)
- Diaspora (Karla Tonella / Communication Studies, U. Iowa)
- ERCOMER - the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations
- Fourth World Documentation Project (Center for World Indigenous Studies)
- Leela Gandhi (La Trobe U.), "Indo-Anglian Fiction: Writing India, Elite Aesthetics, and the Rise of the 'Stephanian' Novel" (1997) (Australian Humanities Review)
- Anthony R. Guneratne, "The Virtual Spaces of Postcoloniality: Rushdie, Ondaatje, Naipaul, Bakhtin and the Others" (1997)
- Chris Healy (U. Melbourne), "In the Beginning was Captain Cook" (1997) (extract) (Australian Humanities Review)
- History of English Studies Page (a page for the study of the development of English literary studies as a cultural and global force; cultural-critical and postcolonial perspectives upon the problem are anchored upon a series of texts or excerpts from authors both past and present--including Adam Smith, Thomas Macaulay, Michel Foucault, Gayatri Spivak, and others) (Rita Raley, U. Minnesota) | Bibliography
- India and Its Neighbors (substantial, well-developed site) (Vinay Lal, UCLA)
- Top-Level Resources
- Selected Resources on Colonial / Postcolonial History:)
- Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies (North Carolina State U.)
- Neil Larsen, "Poverties of Nation: The Ends of the Earth, 'Monetary Subjects without Money,' and Postcolonial Theory" (1997) (critique of the recent intellectual fetishization of "globalism," "post-nationalism," "hybridity," "migrancy," "diaspora," etc. that takes as its negative allegory Robert D. Kaplan's, The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the Twenty First Century; "[the book] makes for a macabre demonstration of how the mythical underside of the postnational bonds as readily with new hybrids of eco-fascism as it does with postcolonialism or poststructuralism")
- First Online Conference on Postcolonial Theory (April 14, 1997, National U. Singapore) (full-texts of papers)
- Postcolonial Conferences and New Publications in Post-Colonial Studies (U. Bourgogne, France)
- Postcolonial List: Archives (U. Virginia)
- "Post-Colonial Reader" (experimental hypertext project with brief quotes relevant to postcolonial topics) (Aruna Krishnamurthy, U. Florida)
- Public Culture (journal of "transnational cultural studies"; includes article abstracts)
- Rita Raley (U. Minnesota), "Third World / Postcolonial Literary Studies" (course) (temporarily unavailable)
- SAGAR: South Asia Graduate Research Journal
- Edward W. Said (bibliography) (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource/Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
- E. San Juan, Jr., "Postcolonial Theory Versus Philippine Reality: The Challenge of Third World Resistance Culture to Global Capitalism"
- Jenny Sharpe (UCLA), "The Limits of What Is Possible: Reimagining Sharam in Salman Rushdie's Shame" (1997) (Jouvert)
- Ella Shohat (CUNY-Graduate Center), "Framing Post-Third-Worldist Culture: Gender and Nation in Middle Eastern/ North African Film and Video" (1997) (Jouvert)
- Some Issues in Postcolonial Theory(John Lye, Brock U.)
- U. Calif. Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (temporarily unavailable)
- Tim Watson (Montclair State U. ), "Jamaica, Genealogy, George Eliot: Inheriting the Empire After Morant Bay" (1997) (Jouvert)
- WWW Virtual Library: Migration and Ethnic Relations (Arthur J. Kosten)
SOCIOLOGY SITES
- General Sociology Resources
- Dead Sociologists' Society (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.)
- Information about Internet Resources in Social Theory, Organisation and Technology (STOT) (Olaf Boettger, Keele U., UK)
- International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam ("world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history in general and the history of the labour movement in particular")
- Resources of Scholarly Societies - Sociology (U. Waterloo)
- Larry R. Ridener (Radford U.), Social Theory (course site that includes substantial excerpts from many online texts)
- Social Science Information Gateway (Inst. for Research and Learning Technology, U. Bristol)
- The Social Science Research Engine (Cindy Alvarez, Harvard U.)
- Social Sciences WWW Virtual Library (T. Matthew Ciolek, Australian National U.)
- Society for Social Research Page (student-maintained page of the U. Chicago Sociology Dept.; includes extensive archive of summaries of major sociological theorists)
- Classical Sociology Theory
- Formal Organizations
- Urban and Ethnic
- Population / Family / Gender
- Social Stratification
- Social Change
- Political Sociology
- Sociology of Culture
- A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace (good set of links to sociology resources on the net) (Michael C. Kearl, Trinity U., Texas)
- Sociology Links (Princeton U. Sociology Dept.)
- Sociology Links (U. Sydney Sociology Dept.)
- Sociology Page (includes links on sociology, cultural theory, postmodern culture, and Marx/Engels) (Patrick Macartney, U. Leeds)
- Sociology Server (Andrew Miller, Boston U.)
- SocioSite - Going Dutch Sociology (very extensive, well-organized site for sociology and sociology-related areas; many areas overlap with humanities disciplines; esp. useful for its blend of global and specifically European resources) (Albert Benschop / Sociological Institute, U. Amsterdam)
- Selected Top-Level Links:
- Subject Areas
- Sociologists
- Sociology Courses
- Electronic Journals
- Libraries
- Data Archives
- Publishers & Bookstores
- Sociology in Amsterdam
- Sociology Departments
- Research Centers
- Expert Centers
- Professional Associations
- Institutions
- NewsGroups
- NewsLetters
- Mailing Lists
- NewsPapers
- The SocioWeb: A Sociological Resource Center (Mark Blair)
- Suite101.com: Sociology (Christopher Newman)
- Lytle Givens (Union U., Tennessee), History of Social Thought (course)
- Kearl's Guide to the Sociology of Death (deep page of death-related resources, including datasets on death rates, accidents, etc.) (Michael C. Kearl, Trinity U., Texas)
- Kearl's Guide to the Sociology of the Family (Michael C. Kearl, Trinity U., San Antonio, Texas)
- Gary King (Harvard U.), A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem (Preface and first chapter of a book published in 1997 by Princeton University Press that "presents a solution to the problem of inferring individual attributes from aggregate data, the first method of ecological inference that works in practice. The ecological inference problem has been among the longest standing, most actively pursued, and consequential in quantitative social science.")
- Peter Kollock(UCLA), The Sociology of Cyberspace (course)
- Rural Studies
- Center for Rural Studies (U. Vermont)
- Rural Society: A Quarterly Journal of Rural Social Issues (Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt U., Australia)
- Leonardo Salamini and Jim Brazell (Bradley U.), The Sociology of Cyberspace (course)
- The Times of Our Lives: Investigations into Socio-Chronology (page of links, commentary, and other resources related to research on "time and the revolutionary changes it has undergone [in] Western societies") (Michael C. Kearl, Trinity U., Texas)
BODY / CORPOREALITY THEORY
- Bodies and Technologies: Dora, Neuromancer, and Strategies of Resistance (Wendy Wahl, U. Vermont; essay from Postmodern Culture 1993)
- Body Art (Nerd World)
- Body Basics: Precision Tattooing & Body Piercing (includes links to other body modification sites)
- Nannette Brenner (U. Texas, Arlington), "The Cyborg of the Main Battle Tank: A Tool Of Human Engineering" (1997) (Enculturation)
- The Contortion Home Page
- Coded Messages: CHAINS (conceptual hypermedia project that raises "questions about the power of language and communications in traditional and post-modern society" by connecting "our friends in Ghana (where there is no Internet service at all) and Web surfers who can hop around the world at the click of a mouse") (NYU Center for Digital Multimedia/Courant Institute Media Research Lab)
- Corporeal Theory Home Page
- Shannon McRae, "Coming Apart at the Seams: The Erotics of Virtual Embodiment"
- Beth Spencer, "D-Cups, Groin-guards & Supermodels: Writing the Body into History" (1998) (Australian Humanities Review)
- Streams and Brian Present Piercing Mildred (interactive body modification and piercing)
- McKenzie Wark (Macquarie U., Sydney Australia), "Post Human? All Too Human"
- Zone Press (gopher)
CENSORSHIP (see also Cybercensorship)
- Banned Books On-Line (English Server, Carnegie Mellon U.)
- Bonfire of Liberties - Censorship of the Humanities (interactive exhibit) (Texas Humanities Resource Center)
- Censorship & The Arts in Canada (Leif Harmsen)
- Censorship Issues (list of online resources) (The Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource)
- Susan Dwyer (McGill U.), "A Plea to Ignore the Consequences of Free Speech" (1996) ("asks us to reject consquentialist terms in debating the limits on free speech; instead, she calls for a position in which those who argue to restrict pornography and hate speech must say something more about the ways in which these things threaten some people's substantive equality") (Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine)
- The File Room Censorship Archive (illustrated archive on censorship) (temporarily unavailable)
- Dan Georgakas, "Hollywood Blacklist" (informational article from Buhle, Buhle, and Georgakas, ed., Encyclopedia of the American Left, 1992) (Al Fireis, U. Penn)
- Index on Censorship ("the bi-monthly magazine for free speech . . . Index shows how free speech affects the political issues of the moment.")
- Most Frequently Banned Books in the US in the 1990s (English Server, Carnegie Mellon U.)
- Music Censorship
- A Brief History of Banned Music ("selective on-line chronicle of popular music that has been censored, banned or altered in the name of community standards and morals"; begins with the 1950s) (Eric Nuzum0
- Eric Nuzum, "Music Censorship: Elvis to Ice-T" (1998) (REV Magazine)
- Suite101.com: Censorship/Banned Books (Rick Russell)
CULTURE / CANON WARS
- African American Cultural Literacy (gravity) (temporarily unavailable)
- The Anthologies and Miscellanies Page (tables of contents of 18th- and 19th-century British literary anthologies, miscellanies, and "beauties" of historical relevance to the canon debate; includes discussion of site philosophy) (Laura Mandell, U. Miami, Ohio / Rita Raley, U. Minnesota)
- Harold Bloom (Yale U.)
- Marion Long, Interview with Harold Bloom: A Western Canon, Jr. ("Recently, Bloom shared exclusively with HomeArts his ideas about the authors and books that might form A Western Canon, Jr.--an imagined book about the best of Western literature for children. When we talked with Bloom in his home near the Yale University campus, he showed all the enthusiasm of a child as he spoke about his past and present as a reader") (HomeArts Network, Hearst Corp.)
- The Canon and the Web (site for a special session at the Modern Language Assoc. convention, Dec. 1996) (Alan Liu, U. California, Santa Barbara, and Laura Mandell, Miami U., Ohio)
- "The Canon and the Web," special issue of Romanticism on the Net (May 1998) (guest editors: Laura Mandell and Michael Gamer)
- Neil Fraistat, Steven Jones, and Carl Stahmer (Romantic Circles Site), "The Canon, The Web, and the Digitization of Romanticism" (1998) (Romanticism on the Net)
- Catherine Decker (California State U., San Bernardino), Crossing Old Barriers: The WorldWideWeb, Academia, and the Romantic Novel (1998) (Romanticism on the Net)
- (also: Theory, Walter Benjamin) Douglass H. Thomson (Georgia Southern U.), "The Work of Art in the Age of Electronic (Re)Production" (1998) (Romanticism on the Net)
- Elizabeth Fay (U. Massachusetts, Boston), "The Bluestocking Archive: Constructivism and Salon Theory Revisited" (1998)
- Chris Koenig-Woodyard (Oxford U.), "A Hypertext History of the Transmission of Coleridge's 'Christabel,' 1800-1816" (1998)
- David Chandler (Kyoto U.), " 'One Consciousness,' Historical Criticism and the Romantic Canon" (2000) (Romanticism on the Net)
- The Concept of Literary Canon: An Overview (Kathryn B. Stockton, U. Utah, and George Landow, Brown U. / Victorian Web)
- The Literary Canon, Introduction
- Canon: Dictionary Definitions
- Feminist Questions about the Literary Canon
- Feminist Responses to the Idea of a Literary Canon
- Calling into Question the Concept and Practice of the Literary Canon
- Inserting Women Writers into the Canon
- Developing a Counter-Canon
- Alternative Readings of Canonical (Male) Texts
- Cultural Literacy: Culture as a Field of Contest (quotations from recent critical and theoretical works that bear on the issue of canonicity) (Laura Mandell, Miami U., Ohio)
- Matthew M. Davis (U. Virginia), "The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics" (laudatory info piece on the conservative ALSC, here called a "counterrevolutionary organization" that "would combat this decay, a society that would promote high standards and scholarly research instead of deconstruction and trendy theorizing") | Update on the 1st national (U. S.) conference of the ALSC in 9/95
- David Denby, Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World (description of 1996 book) (Simon & Schuster)
- "The Economy and Its Impact on the Religious Right" ("multiculturalism is a genuine phenomenon in the New Communities. . . . this multiculturalism can be attributed to some degree to the liberal [and 'politically correct'] university educations most residents have received. But there seems to be a broader, more fundamental process at work here: to put it crassly, money! Participation in the economic process . . . demands a multicultural ethic. Why? . . . the multinational corporation") (Institute for the Study of Religion in Politics)
- T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (Project Bartleby)
- Robert M. Fowler (Baldwin-Wallace C., Ohio), "The Fate of the Notion of Canon in the Electronic Age" (1994)
- Great Contemporary Literature (Hatteras: A Journal of Conservative Thought / www.jollyroger.com)
- Alan Liu (U. California, Santa Barbara), "Canon Revision: History, Theory, Practice" (graduate seminar)
- Canon Dreaming, 1996 (online anthologies and courses designed by graduate students in the course)
- Electrifying the Renaissance: Hypertext, Literature, and the World Wide Web ("Early Modern paradigms for access to a variety of different texts provides both a way of discussing the WWW and a new way of looking at the western literary canon. Perhaps one of the most manageable ways to navigate through a possibly unlimited number of texts may be to deal with them based on a Renaissance paradigm") (Robert Hamm & Rebecca Wood, U. California, Santa Barbara)
- Romantic Movements ("online anthology intended to geographically situate writings of the period between 1760 and 1830. Knowledge of place is central to the literary history of the period, since it encompasses not only fiercely localized poetry centered in the Lake District, but also the European wanderings of the younger generation of writers") (Sheila Minn Hwang & Vince Willoughby, U. California, Santa Barbara)
- The Victorian Canon ("web site devoted to investigating the problem of taste and aesthetics with regard to the Victorian canon in particular, and to the canon debates in the academy in general . . .contains on-line syllabi [e.g. Victoriana: The Popular Canon; The Victorian Novel; Victorian Poetry; The Novel and the Long 19th Century; Literature of Empire], on-line texts [including short stories by Lady Jane Wilde and Mary Elizabeth Braddon], images, external links, and a theory archive") (Jennifer Jones & Rita Raley, U. California, Santa Barbara)
- Novel Courses ("Creating a course on the novel? In response to current directions in the canon debate, this site provides an anthology of courses that approach the syllabus at the nexus of pedagogical concerns, genre concerns, and historical concerns") (Alexandra Cook, E. Kim Stone, Benjamin Strong, Eric Weitzel, U. California, Santa Barbara)
- Canon Dreaming, 1998 (online anthologies and courses designed by graduate students in the course)
- So Funny, They Forgot to Laugh: British and American Women's Comedy, 1100-1998 ("Women's comedy has frequently been ignored or disparaged. We seek to change that. Our mission is to furnish scholars and teachers with information about primary and critical sources, and a sample course, on women's comic writing from 1100 to 1998") (Teresa Canosa & Diana Solomon, U. California, Santa Barbara)
- Tracing Relevance ("Instructors often attempt to demonstrate the way in which canonical texts bear upon the matter at hand by using more current permutations, such as filmed adaptations, to increase accessibility to the past. This project seeks to add to this strategy of 'looking back' to relevance. We propose that the vision of canonical study be directed forward as well as backward, to trace the relevance of canonical texts as they are appropriated and retranslated into today's world, to legitimize connections between these literary texts and recent, innovative, reconfigurations of them in a variety of different media.") (Caroline Brehm & Denee Pescarmona, U. California, Santa Barbara)
- Author(iz)ing Modern Readers ("Author(iz)ing Modern Readers asserts that readers, rather than specific authors or text, should be brought to the center of contemporary canon debates about literature. . . . locating value in specific literary texts, rather than specific readers in historical and institutional locations elides how academic institutions and privileged readers control, shape and transmit reading practices, tastes and responses to texts.") (Sara Gerend & Will Scilacci, U. California, Santa Barbara)
- Robin Markowitz, "Canonizing the Popular"
- The Master Works of Western Civilization ("hypertext-annotated compilation of lists of major works recommended by Drs. Adler and Eliot, Charles Van Doren, Anthony Burgess, Clifton Fadiman, the Easton Press, and many others"; links to online texts) (Mason West)
- Meaghan Morris (U. of Technology, Sydney), "Sticks & Stones & Stereotypes" (1997) (Morris on political correctness) (Australian Humanities Review)
- (course) Wesley Morris (Rice U.), Studies in Literary Theory: Problems in the History of the Theory Canon
- Multicultural U.S. Fiction Web: Concepts, Definitions, History, Reading Narrative, Websites (pedagogically-oriented introduction to the concept, history, documents, and fiction of multiculturalism; includes links and study guides) (Richard Pearce, Wheaton C.)
- NASSR-L (Discussion List of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism)
- Discussion Thread on Recent Romanticism Anthologies & the Canon (Oct. 1995 - Feb. 1996) (Laura Mandell, Miami U., Ohio / Romanticism on the Net)
- Discussion Thread on Felicia Hemans, Aesthetics, Sentiment, and the Canon (July 1997) (Romantic Circles)
- National Association of Scholars (NAS) (the recent pro-canon, anti-pc, anti-"post" professional organization of literary scholars; "the only academic organization dedicated to the restoration of intellectual substance, individual merit, and academic freedom in the university")
- The Undergrowth of Philosophy ("containing all that is wacky, preposterous, and just plain silly in contemporary philosophy")
- Pondering Postmodernism ("an experimental site, still under development, whose purpose is to list actual course descriptions from the pages of college and university catalogs--from all academic disciplines--as well as incidental items to highlight what sparks the postmodern imagination")
- Romantic Canons: A Bibliography (and an Argument) ("contains an annotated list of critical and theoretical works about the activity of canonizing as it arose during the Romantic Era"; argues in annotations to the bibliography that canonicity as a concept is definitively 'Romantic.' ") (Laura Mandell, Miami U., Ohio)
- Romantic Circles: Anthologies Page (provides "comprehensive list of all the major anthologies currently available for the study of Romantic literature, tables of content for those anthologies, supplementary anthologies that assist the study of Romantic literature, and errata for various anthologies") (Harriet Linkin, Laura Mandell, Rita Raley) | (see also NASSR-L Discussion of Recent Romanticism Anthologies & the Canon (Oct. 1995 - Feb. 1996))
- Selected Resources:
- Major Anthologies of the Romantic Period
- Discussion of Anthologies
- Trevor Ross (Dalhousie U.), "The Emergence of 'Literature': Making and Reading the English Canon in the Eighteenth Century" (1996) (ELH; only accessible to institutions subscribing to Project Muse)
- The "Rutgers Reading List" (an attempt by a Rutgers professer to remember the shape of the "classic" or "traditional" English literature major by "reconstructing the English comprehensive reading list used at one eastern liberal arts college [Dartmouth] between the 1940s and the mid-1960s, the specific purpose of which was to guide reading for senior comprehensive examinations"; this list has been circulating in "underground" manuscript form among students at various colleges) (William C. Dowling, Rutgers U.)
- Rakefat Sela-Sheffy (Tel Aviv U.), "Strategies of Canonization: Manipulating the Idea of the Novel and the Intellectual Field in Eighteenth Century German Culture" (1994)
- Werner Sollors (Harvard U.), " 'Of Plymouth Rock and Jamestown and Ellis Island'; or, Ethnic Literature and Some Redefinitions of 'America' "
- The Western Canon ("the purpose of this site is to provide a single location where the Internet community can come and find links to the most important written works of western civilization") (Paul John Barnette, Jr.)
- What Should You Read? Who Says So? ("The list below includes almost 900 recommendations found in a variety of sources identifying 'important' books") (Alexander H. McIntire, Jr., U. Miami)
FASHION
- Fashion (Biblioteca Virtual De Estudos Culturais / Cultural Studies Virtual Library, Federal U., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- Fashion (from the view of Baudrillard, Marx, Freud) (part of U. Florida Fetish project)
- Joanne Finkelstein (Monash U.), "Chic Theory" (1997) (on the idea and practice of fashion) (Australian Humanities Review)
- Response Essays:
- Ruth Barcan (U. Western Sydney), Response (1997)
- Jennifer Craik (Griffith U.), "Chic to Chic" (1997)
GENERATION WARS (Baby Boomer, Eighties, Gen-X pages, etc.)
- The Time Page: An Examination of Cycles in American History (Bill Murray)
- ThirdAge (site with news, resources, chat, etc. for "third agers," those in "the new, extended period of active adulthood which starts in the early 50s") (Third Age Media, Inc.)
- The Sixties
- The Sixties Project (history and culture of the '60s) (Kali Tal)
- Baby Boom Generation
- Boomernet -- The Baby Boomers' Surfing Center (Terry Cochran)
- Selected 1990 Census Data (Relevant to Baby Boom Generation) (U. S. Census Bureau)
- The Eighties
- The '80s Server ("Welcome to The 80s Server -- the ultimate trip back into our not-so-distant past") (Metropolis Inc.)
- ChuckyG's Eighties Web Pages (Charles R. Grosvenor, Jr.)
- Once Upon a Time in the Eighties: A Collaborative Hypertext (student project on the '80s for Matthew G. Kirschenbaum's course at U. Virginia; includes others '80s links)
- Generation X
- 100 Harshest Facts About Our Future (list from Revolution X by Rob Nelson and Jon Cowan providing a Gen X view of the future) (Adam Rifkin, CalTech)
- The Alternative Group ("non-partisan political advocacy group for Generation X, supporting practical public policy that will have a profound impact on young Americans")
- Jim Connelly, Slacker (very witty, yet lackadaisical, series of personal vignette-meditations on Gen X)
- Conservative Generation X (Paul Colligan & Ehren Filippello)
- "Death of Generation X" ("article on page 72 of June 1995's Details magazine, wherein Douglas Coupland commits Gen-X-cide") (Adam Rifkin, CalTech)
- EmPower X!'s Online Empowerment Information Center ("non profit, educational organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for the members of Generation X")
- Henry A. Giroux (Pennsylvania State U.)
- "Doing Cultural Studies: Youth and the Challenge of Pedagogy"
- "Slacking Off: Border Youth and Postmodern Education" (1994) (JAC Online)
- Olivia López (UC Berkeley), "Myth or Reality: Distinguishing Elements of the Slacker Generation"
- "Thoughts on Texts that Sur-round, De-construct and Re-construct Generation X"
- Some Generation X (Gen X, 13th Generation, Slackers, Post-Baby Boomers) Links
- Generation X Bibliography
- Laura Martz, "Free Time! Ludicity and the Anti-work Ethic" (Situationist-inspired essay taking a "ludic" approach to the work/slack problem) (Cultronix)
- Adam Rifkin's Lead . . . or Leave Page (page on Lead . . . or Leave, a now defunct "large Generation X political organization in the United States, lobbying and consulting in the effort to put generational issues on the national political map")
- Reinvent Social Security ("Problem: As the baby boomers retire, the U.S. will no longer be able to afford to pay out Social Security benefits without drastically raising taxes on younger workers") (Adam Rifkin, CalTech)
- "The Romantic Slacker" ("Sorry, but placing most of these people into a mold of defiant rebel is bullshit. What they are are pathetic wastes of humanity") (Kiefer)
- "When Do They Settle Down?: Young People in the U.S. Labor Market" (1995) (RAND research brief summarizing research by Jacob Klerman and Lynn Karoly)
GLOBALISM (see also Postcolonial Studies above, Business & Globalism / Multinationalism on Postindustrial Business Theory page, and Internationalism on Area Studies page)
- Kerby Anderson (Probe Ministries International), "Globalism and Foreign Policy" ("We must challenge the goals and vision of globalists. In an effort to unite all peoples under a one-world government, one-world economic system, and one-world religion, globalists will attack the traditional family, the Christian church, and the American government") (Probe Ministries International)
- Christopher Corbett, "What's So Bad About Globalism, Anyway?" (1996) ("today's globalism as practiced by the U.N. and its hangers-on is closely connected with efforts to eliminate nations as the principle political entity of mankind--or if not to eliminate them, at least supersede them with global agencies which would submerge the nation-state into irrelevancy. This is global utopianism, and it is strictly prohibited by the Bible") (International Christian Media / Point of View Radio Talk Show)
- The Global English Newsletter (info about newsletter offering "a means of keeping up-to-date with the key developments connected with English as a global language"; includes news on such items as "changes in government policy in countries around the world, the latest linguistic demographics of the Internet, or a break-through in machine translation") (The English Company [UK], Ltd. / British Council English 2000 Project)
- Global Society: Journal ofInterdisciplinary International Relations (tables of content only)
- (conference) Globalization From Below: Contingency and Contestation in Historical Perspective (Feb. 5-8, 1998, Duke U.)
- Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition (includes online working papers on globalization) (McMaster U.)
- Neil Larsen, "Poverties of Nation: The Ends of the Earth, 'Monetary Subjects without Money,' and Postcolonial Theory" (1997) (critique of the recent intellectual fetishization of "globalism," "post-nationalism," "hybridity," "migrancy," "diaspora," etc. that takes as its negative allegory Robert D. Kaplan's, The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the Twenty First Century; "[the book] makes for a macabre demonstration of how the mythical underside of the postnational bonds as readily with new hybrids of eco-fascism as it does with postcolonialism or poststructuralism")
- Donald J. Puchala (U. South Carolina), "The Ethics of Globalism" (1995) (essay on the philosophical underpinnings of "moral relativism and moral universalism" in the "human rights" debate) (Academic Council on the United Nations System)
- (conference) Globalization From Below: Contingency and Contestation in Historical Perspective (Feb. 5-8, 1998, Duke U.)
- (conference) Rights to the City: Citizenship, Democracy and Cities in a Global Age -- An International Symposium (June 26-28, 1998, York U., Canada)
- Miguel Agustín Romero Morett (U. Guadalajara), "Antropovisión de la economía global" (1996) (in Spanish) (Sincronia)
- Paul Treanor, "World-Nationalism: Normative Globalism as Pan-Nationalism"
- Theodore H. Von Laue (Clark U.), "A World History for the Future" (1994) (lecture in the field of "world history" that closes with discussion of contemporary globalism; especially concerned with the global role and responsibilities of Western culture: "Westernization, now generally decultured and universalized as 'modernization,' proceeds by its own momentum . . . as a source of profound worldwide cultural disorientation")
- What is Global English? (resources and annotated links for studying the fact that "Global English" "has now come to stand in as a manufactured historical and cultural condition constituted in part by the supposition that language has made it possible to elide or transgress the boundaries of nations and races") (Rita Raley, U. Minnesota) (temporarily unavailable)
INTELLECTUALS & KNOWLEDGE WORKERS (see also Neo-Corporatist "Knowledge" and "Lifetime Learning" on Commerce Page)
- Don Anderson (U. Sydney), "Teachers, Intellectuals, Politics" ("Surely one had a choice: merely to accept such interventionist restructuring of universities . . . or, on the other hand, to critique such New Statism"; extracted from longer piece published in 1995)
- Ruth Barcan, "The Body of the (Humanities) Academic, or, 'What is an Academic' " (extract) (1996) ("considers the academic body as a site of contesting discourses of professional practice") (Australian Humanities Review)
- Bibliography of Writings on "Intellectuals" (Timothy J. Wager, U. California, Santa Barbara)
- Alvin Gouldner, The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class (synopsis) (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
- Richard A. Lanham (UCLA), "The Implications of Electronic Information for the Sociology of Knowledge [1]"
- Humphrey McQueen, "Professions of Power" (extract) (1996) ("looks at the subservience of academics to the power of state and business") (Australian Humanities Review)
- Richard Ohmann, English in America: A Radical View of the Profession (1976) (excerpt) (excerpt on the New Criticism at the moment of the so-called "end of ideology" in mid-20th-century U.S. intellectual culture; "Our dogma is academic freedom, which in practice means that you can think and write what you like, but as your speech approaches to political action you are more and more likely to find yourself without a job. Universities are supposed to remain neutral, stay politically pure, as are other academic institutions like the MLA. The literary wing of the academy wholly subscribed to these doctrines through the fifties . . . ") (Al Fireis, U. Penn)
- Sociology of Knowledge Page (Martin Ryder, U. Colorado, Denver)
MILLENNIAL STUDIES (THE YEAR 2000 FETISH)
- Center for Millennial Studies
- Everything2000 (John Locher)
- Millennial Information Exchange (Rob and Ken Howard)
- Millennial Prophecy Report ("on-line newsletter devoted to news and analysis of millenarian trends, primarily in American society, but with global scope") (Millennial Watch Institute)
- Millennium Institute
- Tick, Tick, Tick . . . Online, The Newsletter for Millennial Management ("discussion of the year 2000 as it affects computer programs")
- Year 2000 Related Links
THE SOKAL CONTROVERSY
- The Sokal Affair (info and links relating to the 1996 controversy over a "hoax" cultural-studies essay by a physicist) (Centre for Social Theory and Technology, Keele U.)
- Alan D. Sokal (New York U.)
- "Trangressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" (Social Text, 1996)
- A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies (article by Sokal in Lingua Franca unveiling the fact that his essay on "Transgressing the Boundaries" in Social Text was a parody: "So, to test the prevailing intellectual standards, I decided to try a modest (though admittedly uncontrolled) experiment: Would a leading North American journal of cultural studies -- whose editorial collective includes such luminaries as Fredric Jameson and Andrew Ross publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions?")
- Social Text's Editorial Response to Sokal's Lingua Franca Essay
- Stanley Fish (Duke U.), "Professor Sokal's Bad Joke" (Fish's New York Times Op-Ed piece)
- Steve Fuller (U. Durham), "PostMortem: Post vs. Postmodern (The Sokal Affair)"
COURSES & PROGRAMS
- General Course & Program Resources
- Cultural Studies Academic Courses & Programs (Sarah Zupko)
- Sociology Courses (SocioSite / Albert Benschop)
- Courses
- Carl Cuneo (McMaster U.), Trade Unions and Gender
- Al Filreis (U. Penn), The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s (includes many online resources)
- Cindy Fuchs (George Mason U.)
- Black Popular Cultures
- 50ft Queenies ("course examines current gendered and sexed identities as they are produced, resisted, and negotiated through and as popular media imagery, primarily in the U.S.")
- Rock and Rap
- Tabloid Culture
- Lytle Givens (Union U., Tennessee), History of Social Thought
- Earl Jackson, Jr. (U. California, Santa Cruz), "Fantasy Campus" (Courses in Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies)
- Barbara Harlow, Bret Benjamin, Mary Harvan (U. Texas, Austin), Literary Contexts and Contests ("Through active--and activist--readings of these texts, and participatory writing, our own project will be to investigate the cultural arguments that literary works can instigate and the conflicts that they just as often resolve and/or exacerbate"; course is designed around texts by five authors: Swift, M. Shelley, Conrad, Achebe, Kureishi; includes timelines for: Literary Genres, Population and Development, Race and Ethnicity, and Geographies of Contest
- Peter Kollock, Marc Smith (UCLA), The Sociology of Cyberspace
- Rita Raley (U. Minnesota), "Third World / Postcolonial Literary Studies"
- Leonardo Salamini and Jim Brazell (Bradley U.), The Sociology of Cyberspace
- Programs
- Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation (temporarily unavailable)
- George Mason U. Cultural Studies Program
- Georgetown U. Communication, Culture, and Technology Program
- Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (International Research Center for Cultural Studies), Vienna ("a transnationally oriented research institute, founded by the Austrian government to promote interdisciplinary research and postgraduate training in the humanities and cultural studies")
- Tel Aviv U. Unit for Culture Research
JOURNALS & ZINES
- Cultural Studies Journals / Archives (Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center)
- Periodicals (in Portugese) (English version) (Biblioteca Virtual De Estudos Culturais)
- Sociology Electronic Journals(SocioSite / Albert Benschop)
- Ciberkiosk: Livros, Artes, Espectáculos, Sociedade (Portuguese online journal; in Portuguese)
- CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal ("peer-refereed quarterly . . . publishes literary theory and criticism on all aspects of literature and culture from an international perspective; maintains a Library with publicly accessible bibliographies")
- Colloquy: Text,Theory, Critique (online "interdisciplinary work by Australian postgraduates")
- Commonwealth Essays and Studies ("critical studies concerning post-colonial literatures in English")
- Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture ("thematically based cultural studies journal. The primary focus of the journal is upon screen media; but our understanding of 'media' also includes publishing, broadcasting and public exhibitionary media such as museums and sites")
- CTHEORY
- Cultural Dynamics
- Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice
- culturefront (site of the New York Council for the Humanities and its quarterly magazine offering "news and a variety of views on the production, interpretation, and politics of culture"; issues have a thematic focus--e.g., "The Heroic and the Horrific," "Catholics in America," "Visualizing History," "The New Immigrants") (New York Council for the Humanities)
- Culture Machine
- Enculturation: An Electric Journal for Cultural Studies and Theory (Graduate Humanities Dept., U. Texas at Arlington)
- Impact (contemporary U.S. socio-political issues; online articles)
- Injustice Studies: An On-Line Journal (refereed)
- J_Spot: Journal of Social and Political Thought (online journal covering "intersections between theory, politics and political action, aesthetics, cultural criticism, and social and economic justice")
- Journal of World-Systems Research ("electronic journal dedicated to scholarly research on the modern world-system and earlier, smaller intersocietal networks . . . interdisciplinary in focus")
- Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies (North Carolina State U.)
- Ko'aga Rone'eta: A Journal of Human Rights (Equipo Nizkor / Derechos Human Rights)
- Limina: A Journal of History and Cultural Studies (History Dept., U. Western Australia)
- Literary Witches ("postmodernism, avant-pop, reconstruction, hypertext, transgendered experimentation, multiculturalism, literary theory, feminism, postfeminism and c/lit culture ezine")
- Other Voices (online peer-reviewed journal of cultural criticism) (Vance Bell, et al., U. Penn.)
- Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture & Politics ("peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal affiliated with the Literature Program of Duke U. . . . edited and produced by a collective of humanities graduate students")
- Postmodern Culture (Note: as of 1997 this online journal [including most back issues] is issued through the Johns Hopkins U. Press "Project Muse"; it is now accessible only to users at subscribing institutions)
- Public Culture (includes article abstracts)
- Representations (tables of contents plus some online excerpts and introductions to special issues)
- Retro: The Magazine of Classic 20th Century Popular Culture (motto: "anything that was ever cool")
- Rural Society: A Quarterly Journal of Rural Social Issues (Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt U., Australia)
- Sincronia: A Journal of Cultural Studies for Latin America (articles variously in Spanish and English)
- Space and Culture: The Journal ("reflections on a wide range of socio-spatial arenas such as the home, architecture, urbanism and geopolitics. We encourage the application of contemporary theoretical debates in cultural studies, discourse analysis, post-colonialism to research on sexuality, migrant and diasporic identities, virtual identities and virtual citizenship"; tables of contents and abstracts)
- Studies in Popular Culture (online articles) (Michael Dunne and Sara Lewis Dunne, Middle Tennessee State U.)
- Suitcase: A Journal of Transcultural Traffic ("Founded in 1995 to monitor world culture on the move, Suitcase carries the work of established and emergent writers and artists from over thirty odd nations, paying special attention to the intersections of culture and human rights")
- Undercurrent: An Online Journal for the Analysis of the Present (Erick Heroux)
LISTSERVS & NEWSGROUPS
- Cultural Studies Listservs / Discussion Groups (Sarah Zupko)
- Lists and Newsgroups (in Portugese) (English Version) (Biblioteca Virtual De Estudos Culturais)
- Chats and Moos (in Portugese) (English version) (Biblioteca Virtual De Estudos Culturais)
- H-SOZ-U-KULT (Web site and archives of the discussion list for German humanities, social history, and cultural history; in German)
- Sociology Mailing Lists (SocioSite / Albert Benschop)
- Sociology NewsGroups (SocioSite / Albert Benschop)
- Spoon Collective Theory Majordomo Guide (subscription/info files for the major theory/philosophy listservs and majordomos, including the Lyotard, Deleuze-Guattari, Baudrillard, Feyerabend, and other famous majordomo theory groups) (caution: some of the info files and/or majordomos appear to be defunct)
- Spoon Collective Majordomo Archives by FTP (archives of major philosophy and theory listservs)
- Theory Listservs (from UPenn listserv index)
- TILE.NET (interactive database of FTP servers, Usenet newsgroups, and listservs from the Walter Shelby Group; uses forms to send the user comprehensive lists of resources organized in several different ways--e.g., all listservs whose title begins with "r". Then allows the user to go to any listed site merely by pressing the link)
- FTP Lists (generates broadly- or narrowly-defined hyperlinked lists of FTP servers)
- Newsgroup Lists (generates broadly- or narrowly-defined hyperlinked lists of Usenet newsgroups)
- Listserv List (generates broadly- or narrowly-defined hyperlinked lists of Listserv groups)
- Bourdieu List Archive (Spoons Collective)
- Foucault List: Archives (U. Virginia)
- Habermas List Archive (Spoon Collective)
- Marxism List: Archives (U. Virginia)
CONFERENCES & CALLS FOR PAPERS
- Calls for Papers / Conferences(Sarah Zupko)
- Conferences and Upcoming Events (Robin Markowitz)
- Crossroads in Cultural Studies: Second International Conference (Tampere, Finland, June 28 - July1, 1998)
- Cultural Studies and Historical Approaches: Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.)
- Cultural Frictions Conference: Conference Proceedings (Georgetown U.)
- Cultural Violence (George Washington U., March 7-8, 1997) ("conference will assemble members from many different academic disciplines to explore the ways in which 'culture' can act as a violent force both to construct and to marginalize difference and to constrain individual expression")
- (Dis)placing Nationalisms (May 18, 1996, U. California, Irvine) (online papers for graduate-student conference exploring "the way in which not only texts, but music, visual culture and film contribute to, are implicated in, and work against the formation of the concepts of nation, nationality, and national identity"; keynote speakers: Rey Chow, J. Hillis Miller) (U. California, Irvine)
- Globalization From Below: Contingency and Contestation in Historical Perspective (Feb. 5-8, 1998, Duke U.)
- Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) Conference (Oct. 7-10, Coral Gables, Florida)
- Legacies Conference (Sept. 27-29, 1996, U. Toronto) (call for papers for conference on "cultural manifestations of inheritance in the period 1780-1901")
- Online Conference on Postcolonial Theory (April 14, 1997, National U. Singapore) (full-texts of papers)
- Postcolonial Conferences and New Publications in Post-Colonial Studies (U. Bourgogne, France)
- (conference) Rights to the City: Citizenship, Democracy and Cities in a Global Age -- An International Symposium (June 26-28, 1998, York U., Canada)
- Terminals: The Cultural Production of Death (U. California, Santa Barbara, Nov. 12-13, 1996) (conference on the interface between the cultural and technological construction of death) | Considering the End (very sophisticated virtual art gallery for the Terminals conference; includes use of multimedia, animation, Java, Shockwave, etc.) (Victoria Vesna, Robert Nideffer, Jason Brown / UCSB Art Studio)
- Trauma and Memory: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (May 22-24, 1998, U. New South Wales, Australia) (includes abstracts of papers)
- Violence, Incorporated: 7th Annual Cultural Studies Symposium (March 12-14, 1998, Kansas State U.)
- Why the Big Suit? The Fabric(ation) of History: Cincinnati Graduate Conference on Literature and Culture (U. Cincinnati, April 19, 1997) ("the reality, myth and construction of history in literature, the visual arts, and popular culture")
Interesting Links for my research on: Cyberculture
The Cyberspace
and Critical Theory Overview
Index to the
"Cyber" Resources -- W e b b a h ! -- A highly subjective source to
online information
cyberspace-and-society
discussion list
Cybersociology Magazine: Contents
Page
Cybersoc: Internet Research,
Consultancy, and Design
Hypertext,
Cybernetics, Cyborgs and Virtual Realities
CULTURAL
THEORY, COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, AND INFORMATIONAL SOCIETY Theater and Film
Studies 480
Resource Center for Cyberculture
Studies
glossary of
internet terms: A Kinder, Gentler Glossary for Net Neophytes -- and Others
Resource Center for Cyberculture
Studies
cyberculture:
an annotated bibliography
bibliographies, list, etc. on: cyberpunk
Cyberpunk Information Database
Postmodern
Science Fiction and Cyberpunk
Mark/Space:
Anachron City: Library: Keywords: Cyberpunk
Mirrorshades Postmodern Archive
A Rip in the
False Reality: Links
bibliography on
cyberpunk/cyberculture
Bibliographies, lists, etc. on: Gender in cyberspace,
cyberculture, computing etc.
Bibliography:
women and information technology
Links: women
and computing CPSR Gender Page
links: Gender
& Race in Media: Cyberspace
bibliography:
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND WOMEN'S LIVES
bibliography:
gender issues in computing
syllabus by
Sherry Turkle: Gender, Technology, and Computer Culture
Magazine: Switch-Electronic
Gender: Art at the Interstice
links:
CYBERGENDER & TECHGENDER: Voice of the Shuttle: Gender Studies Page
Bibliographies, lists, etc. on: Theorists/Authers
Zero News Datapool,SADIE PLANT
Reverse Transcript
- Hyperlink to Donna Haraway
Hyperlinks
to/on the work of Donna Haraway
Bibliographies, lists, etc. on: Philosophy
Spoon Home Page
- mailinglist (overview) on philosophical aand political issues
links: MCS:
Social and Personal Identity
Bibliographies, lists, etc. on: Mass- & Multi-
media Theory
Resources for Communications,
Media and Identity -- David Gauntlett
Computer-Mediated
Communication Resources
Journal for MultiMedia History -
Volume 1 Number 1 Contents Page
www.theory.org.uk -- the media
theory site
bibliographies, lists etc. on: cyborgs
Communication
Studies: Digital Media: Cyborgs
2019: Off-World
(Blade Runner Page)
MS. GUIDANCE Cyborgs and other
machinic adventures in space
Communication
Studies: Digital Media: Cyborgs
Bibliographies, lists, etc. on science-fiction
Science Fiction Studies: scholarly
archive: reviews, documents, essay abstracts
The Linköping Science Fiction
& Fantasy Archive
Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy,
& Utopia
Science Fiction Resource Guide
Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy,
& Utopia
Welcome to the
Merril Collection of Science Fiction...
Homepages
of authors
cyberpunk authors
Bruce
Sterling
The Bruce
Sterling Online Index
William Gibson
straylight -
william gibson page
Patrick
Ernzer's William Gibson page
William Gibson
Links - Tama's Linkcentre
Dhalgren--Steven Shaviro's Web
Pages
BBC Online -
Live and Direct with Howard Rheingold
Alan Sondheim:
Internet Philosophy and Psychology
Kathy Acker
On Cathy
Acker's "Don Quixote"
Faith Wilding,
cyberfeminist, Wild World Web
Interesting articles online
Philosophers
John Slatin
(1996) "La Zambinella Meets the Cyborg: Barthes, S/Z, and Print-Based
Literary Studies"
Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Mooie site met veel informatie,
biografisch en links
Deleuze and Guattari
WWW Resources
for Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Deleuze
(cyber) art - artists
STELARC OFFICIAL WEB SITE - Australia
Switch - Helen Wood (1998) Chik
Tek Interviews with Women Artists Using Technology
Mocha Jean
Herrup (1997) METRO ON ICE MEETS BALL AND CHEANG
(digital) bodies in
cyberspace/cyborgs
Mindy McAdams
(1996) Gender Without Bodies - CMC Magazine
Sigggraph panel The Rhetoric of
the Synthetic Images of the Body in Technology, Business and Culture
Boon, Marcus (1997) PHONE SEX IS
COOL: CHAT LINES AS SUPERCONDUCTORS
Browning,
Barbara (1997) WHEN SNOW ISN'T WHITE
Christie, John R. R. (1992) A
Tragedy for Cyborgs - Configurations 1:1
Dery, Mark
(1996) Slashing the Borg: Resistance is Fertile
Ehrlich,
Matthew (1997) TURING, MY LOVE
Haraway exerpts Biopolitics of
Postmodern Bodies
Haraway (1983)
The Ironic Dream ...
Haraway exerpt
Cyborg Manifesto pp.149-181.
Hayles, N. Katherine (19..)
Engineering Cyborg Ideology
Lehner, Sharon (1997) MY WOMB, THE
MOSH PIT
McAdams, Mindy
(1996) Gender Without Bodies
McRae, Shannon
(1995) Coming Apart at the Seams: Sex, Text and the Virtual Body
Reid, Elisabeth
(1994) Identity and the Cyborg Body
Senft, Theresa
M. (1997) INTRODUCTION: PERFORMING THE DIGITAL BODY -- A GHOST STORY
Spittle, Steve (1997) Is any body
out there?
Cyberfeminism
Fuller, Matthew (1996)
INTELLIGENCE IS NO LONGER ON THE SIDE OF POWER, interview with Sadie Plant
geekgirl -
Interview with dr. Sadie Plant on cyberfeminism
Switch- Alex Galloway (1998) A
Report on Cyberfeminism: Sadie Plant relative to VNS Matrix
VNS Matrix (19**) Bitch Mutant
Manifesto
Games
Sarah Houston
(1999) Sex Sells - I'm still not buying - Games Domain Review
Identity
Sagan, Dorion
Wired 3.01: Sex, Lies, and Cyberspace
Marj Kibby (1997) Babes on the
Web; Sex, Identity and the Home Page
CFP'93 -
Nelson-Kilger - The digital individual
Gay/Lesbian Identity and the
Construction of Cyberspace
MetaSelf -- A Metaphor Model of
the Self. Thinking; teaching; self-help.
Multi-User Dungeons and Alternate
Identities
Positioning:
The Discursive Production of Selves
The Presentation of Self in
Electronic Life: Goffman on the Internet
Amy S. Bruckman
(1993) Gender Swapping on the Internet
Medical Technology
Selzer, Richard
Interior Territory NY Times Magazine
Switch-Joan Schuman (1998)
Either/Or . . . Both/And: Field Notes on Gender
Net statistics/demographics
Visiscan - Index [Bereiksmeting
van Nederlandse websites d.m.v. een panel van internetgebruikers]
Online/Virtual Communities
on rebel women in cyberspace
Switch - Christine Laffer (1998)
Charred Edges: Grrrl Power and the Structures of Feminism
Amelia DeLoach:
Grrrls Exude Attitude
politics
Media and Ethics -- Geert Lovink
WIRED
3.11:idées fortes - "The Net as a Public Sphere?" By Mark Poster
Emily Poler (1997) New Jacked
City? Wiring the South Bronx.
Patti Whaley
(1997) Potential Contributions of Information Technologies to Human Rights
politics of technology
HIGH Ludloow,
Peter (1996) NOON ON THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER - conceptual issues in cyberspace
Steven Mentor (1994) Manifesto
Technologies: Marx, Marinetti, Haraway
ANAT: Australian Network for Art
and Technology
Postmodern theory
Deleuze, Gilles
(1990) "Postscript on the Societies of Control"
Wired: 5.02 (1997) interview with
Donna Harraway
William Grassie
(1997) Postmodernism
Robert M. Young
(1992) SCIENCE, IDEOLOGY AND DONNA HARAWAY
Shawn P. Wilbur (1995) Cyberpunks
to synners: Toward a Feminist Posthumanism?
Steinbach, J Postmodern Technoculture
Jean Baudrillard (1994) Plastic
Surgery for the Other
Jean Baudrillard (1996) Global
Debt and Parallel Universe
representations of gender
through technology
Anne-Marie Schleiner (1998) Does
Laura Croft Ware Fake Polygons
SADIE PLANT (1996) BINARY SEXES,
BINARY CODES
J. Yellowlees Douglas Virtual
Intimacy and the Male Gaze Cubed
J. Michael
Jaffe et al. (1995) Gender, Pseudonyms, and CMC
Laura J. Gurak (1995) Cybercasting
about Cyberspace
Laura J. Gurak (1995) On
"Bob," "Thomas," and Other New Friends: Gender in
Cyberspace
Keng Chua
(1995) Gender and the Web
Lynn Cherny (1994) Gender
Differences in Text-Based Virtual Reality
David Balcom (1994) Body Language:
text and gender online
Hoai-An Truong
(1993) Gender Issues in Online Communications
Jodi O'Brien
(1997) CHANGING THE SUBJECT
Miller, Laura
(1997) Sexing the Machine: three digital women debate gender, technology and
the Net
Kaley Davis and
Theresa M. Senft (1997) MODEM BUTTERFLY, RECONSIDERED
Elizabeth Lane Lawley (1993)
Computers and the Communication of Gender
Technicity, Artifice and
Repetition in Cyberville
Sexual harasment online
Julian Dibbell
(1993) A Rape in Cyberspace
Ellen Spertus (1996) Social and
Technical Means for Fighting On-Line Harassment
Pamela Gilbert
(1997) ON SPACE, SEX AND STALKERS
sexuality/sex/romance
romance and the
internet, several articles
Allison
Fraiberg Electronic Fans, Interpretive Flames: Performative Sexualities and the
Internet
Women and Cyberspace
Boomen, Marianne van (1996)
Barbies, Tankgirls & Cyborgs
Women in computing
Leslie Regan
Shade (1993) Gender Issues in Computer Networking
Sussan Herring
(1994) GENDER DIFFERENCES IN COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION:
Janet Cottrell
(1992) I'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF: A CONSIDERATION OF WOMEN IN COMPUTING
writing/narratives/literature in cyberspace
Interesting projects online - websites
art/experiments
dragon_fly
starChart maison de la laudanum
Tell The Persistent Data
Confidante
bespoke.org is a place where
creative people from any discipline can exhibit their work, have it critiqued,
and collaborate on new projects.
Tina LaPorta: F
u t u r e_b o d y
M e d e i a:
Marita Liulia "Ambitious Bitch" Cd-rom project
ANAT: Australian Network for Art
and Technology
INTIMA Virtual Base / Creative
Intimate Lab : Free Your Mind And The Rest Will Follow
Avatars/bodies in cyberspace
graziella tomasi, I.I.N. Office.
For the borrowing and depositing
of identities
Body art - manipulation
Companies/institutions/musea/cybertheatres
PS1: institute of contemporary
modern art
Welcome to the
British Film Institute
'Boven NAP' -
Debat Nationaal Actieplan Elektronische Snelweg 2.0
A X I S - Bureau voor de kunsten v/m
C Y B E R T H E A T R E / AGENDA
newMetropolis
science and technology center
computing, artificial
intelligence etc.
copyrights issue
Stichting
Digitale Burgerbeweging Nederland DB.NL
Welkom op de
site van Buma/Stemra & Cedar.
Cyberfeminism
Cybernetics
Beyond 2000 - interview with prof.
kevin Warwick - the cyborg prof.
geeknews.net - computer and
internet news by and for geeks - Q & A with Cybernetics Professor Kevin
Cosmetic Surgery
The Facial and
Cosmetic Surgery Centre of Ottawa, Inc. - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Welcome to
Cher's Official Web Site
Critical
Philosophy/Postmodernism/Cybertheory
Tables of
Contents for All Issues of Postmodern Culture
The Cyberspace and Critical Theory
Overview
The Cyberspace
and Critical Theory Overview
The Political
Aesthetic: Nation and Narrativity on the "Starship Enterprise"
PRE/TEXT: Electra(Lite) Publishing
Network
The Cyberspace
and Critical Theory Overview
Tables of Contents for All Issues
of Postmodern Culture
Fun, cartoons etc.
Transformers (the cartoonseries):
More than meets the eyes!
Internet Research
USUS - internet
guide for journalists and reporters
CMC Studies Center: People Page
Collection of Researchers on
Computer Oriented Communication
Mandate
Arbeidsmarktcommunicatie
Researching on the Internet by
Robin Rowland and Dave Kinnaman
The New American Internet User
Survey
Medicine
RT21 - Reproductive Technologies
Web - Index
MUDs & MOOs
The Last Battle [ Tarmon Gai'don ] MUD -
tlb.mudservices.com:5320 - INDEX PAGE
WoTmud IV, the Wheel of Time Mud
New Media Studies
Resource Center for Cyberculture
Studies
On-line magazine
The OFFICIAL MONDO2000 Magazine Website. The MINDSTYLE
Magazine of the Milennium.
artbyte.com -
magazine of digital culture
PRE/TEXT: Electra(Lite) Publishing
Network
First Monday October 1999 - peer
reviewed journal on the internet
trAce Online
Writing Community
Australian Humanities Review Issue
June 1997 Contents
Virtuosity: the ASCP newsletter
Other People's Research
Homepage -- W e b b a h ! -- A
highly subjective source to online information
Science Fiction - Cyberpunk
CyberPunk City - Russian Cyberpunk site
EFF "Net
Culture - Cyberpunk" Archive
A.D.K.O.M. - Infotainment 4
Cyberpunx
& Feminism
Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy,
& Utopia
MUD/MOO's
CYBERPUNK for
the incurably informed
Cyberpunk
Fiction: Information as God
virtual technology/modelling
etc.
Center for Human Modeling and
Simulation
Center for Compliance Testing of Wireless
Devices
Research Index of Knowledge, Simulation of Human
Memory, Creativity, Perception
Virtual Worlds
TechnoSphere III/virtual creatures
Women and/in technolgoy,
internet, digital art, etc.
Women in Computer Visual Arts, Effects, and Animation
Virtual Humans
Virtual Woman by CyberPunk Software
Virtual Humans and Artificial Life
Virtual
Reality
Welcome to the
International Society on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia
The WWW VL:
Educational Technology - Educational VR (MUD) sub-page (05-Jan-2000)
The VR
information and speculation page
SARA -
Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam (virtual reality apperatuur
aanwezig)
The Journal of Virtual
Environments