On republicart, click on the words listed to the left under Discourse to see essays on topics such as: alternative economics, public sphere, precariousness, represenations, space of empire, art sabotage.
essay: "A Brief History of Parking: The Life and After-life of Paving the Planet" by Jane Holtz Kay; again, reading social geographers enhances media making, especially non-fiction
"Kate Bornstein in a slide show version of "The Voice Lesson," a trans-positive, feminist, funny look at how women are expected to talk." Makes good use of audio as unique medium for exposition of this content. Example of how audio slide show works.
semiotics, like connotation, and metaphor and metonymy are terms that convey how images bear meaning; valuable for anyone interested in film and photography
list of films and readings putting together a film series and discussions of biopolitics in a new and interesting way; complete texts of accompanying theoretical readings
"As bad as bad media aesthetics are when static, they will worsen as they become interactive. It is not enough to struggle towards hypermedia: we need to develop a hyperaesthetic."
theses for a proposed book on this topic, to which readers are invited to contribute, with comments included in "symposia" after each chapter, first announcement. Later entries include chapter contributors, topics, comments.
useful website of communication, culture, and technology professor; many links to courses,lectures, slideshows and essays on art, visual culture, media theory
e-journal: "process of re-imagining democracy, broadly conceived as referring to the multitude of practices that shape everyday life"; in-depth left essays from an international perspective
designers of the installations for many important storytelling projects, most notably the StoryCorps booth; "an award-winning design studio that seeks to tell stories in public spaces, museums, and over the internet, often simultaneously."
slide show of people living in 100 square feet, in Hong Kong's oldest housing estate; a good example of ethnographic media on the Internet and suggestive of what similar photographic essays might consist of
course outline with interesting links, especially lecture notes: "Since the birth of cinema, architectural and urban space, and ideas of landscape have played a crucial role in the visual representation of space on screen."