Derek Gregory
web site of cultural geographer Derek Gregory, who has available major essays about the Iraq war and how the US misleads people about ethnic conflict.
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Errol Morris - Zoom - New York Times Blog
major documentary filmmaker has blog for Times; always gathers extensive comments, which make the entries a compendium of ideas about documentary, info, film technique, journalism, culture, etc.
more frommorris.blogs.nytimes.com
Dissent Magazine: review of Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"
a nuanced and well-argued critique of an important political book
more fromdissentmagazine.org
TRANSFORMATIONS
special issue 07 with a variety of applications of Benjamin's ideas and cultural/historical approach to current issues : "Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the Age of Global Culture"
more fromwww.transformationsjournal.org
Feedbooks: Food for the mind
download e-books in form compatible with Kindle and Sony readers; all free
more fromwww.feedbooks.com
darkmatter » Home
"interrogating contested issues of multiculture, while eschewing current orthodoxies"; postcolonial, race, cultural studies theory, with a focus on the politics of everdaylife
more fromwww.darkmatter101.org
Stanford Digital Journalism Course / Stanford Digital Journalism Course
Howard Rheingold's course wiki with links to lots of good material online
more fromwww.socialtext.net
The Charms of Wikipedia - The New York Review of Books
a lengthy, thoughtful review of "Wikipedia: The Missing Manual" by John Broughton; includes history and details about site functioning
more fromwww.nybooks.com
Michael Chanan
online essays by a major writer on documentary and on music; specialist also in Latin American cinema
more fromwww.mchanan.net
A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M. Banks
Banks' in-depth explanation of the Culture, the background to his sci-fi novels, some of my favorite reading
more fromwww.futurehi.net
Observations on film art and FILM ART : This is your brain on movies, maybe
David Bordwell offers a number of reasons why we like an action movie more than once, and can feel suspense all over again in thrillers we have seen before.
more fromwww.davidbordwell.net
Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers
super links page: Writers digest said, "Lists within lists within lists of links you can use to write articles,
find inspiration or take care of business matters." Subjects related to history, literature, narrative, research tools.
more fromwww.internet-resources.com
I Love Libraries - Book Lovers
various ways to find good books to read here: award winners page, book recommendations page, etc.
more fromwww.ilovelibraries.org
Cory Doctorow: why personal data is like nuclear waste | Technology | guardian.co.uk
UK tax system lost data on millions of British citizens; London Tube collects personal data on everyone getting a week's pass; CCTV cameras are everywhere--how long does that data have to be protected? Very long!
more fromwww.guardian.co.uk
Complete Review - Links to Book Review sites at the Complete Review
portal of links to book reviews from newspapers and magazines and also from dedicated web sites
more fromwww.complete-review.com
Ten Dispatches About Place | Orion magazine
great short essay by John Berger, including a discussion of why still be a marxist.
more fromwww.orionmagazine.org
The Best Links 2007 (kottke.org)
Jason Kottke's blog about liberal arts on the Internet: "favorite articles, videos, games, photography, discussions, and design pieces that I linked to in 2007. After you're done with these, try the lists from 2004, 2005, and 2006."
more fromwww.kottke.org
David Brin's Official Web Site
major sci-fi author: "I still do science, but civilization seems more interested in my perspectives on the future. "
more fromwww.davidbrin.com
Biodiversity and Conservation: A Hypertext Book
"origin, nature and value of biological diversity, the threats to its continued existence, and approaches to preserving what is left"--a good approach to producing long-form intellectual material on the Internet, hypertext to others' work
more fromdarwin.bio.uci.edu
Richard C. Foltz | Does Nature Have Historical Agency? World History, Environmental History, and How Historians Can Help Save the Planet | The History Teacher, 37.1 | The History Cooperative
2001-2003: an excellent overview of what kinds of issues must be raised in order to study the interactions between and interdependencies of environmental history and human history, considered worldwide.
more fromwww.historycooperative.org
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