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Cultural
Studies / Critical Theory
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 States
of Injury : Power and Freedom in Late Modernity by
Wendy Brown.
Whether in characterizing Catharine
MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in
identifying liberalism as unable to make good on its promises,
Wendy Brown pursues a central question: how does a sense of
woundedness become the basis for a sense of identity? Brown
argues that efforts to outlaw hate speech and pornography
powerfully legitimize the state: such apparently well-
intentioned attempts harm victims further by portraying them as
so helpless as to be in continuing need of governmental
protection. "Whether one is dealing with the state, the
Mafia, parents, pimps, police, or husbands," writes Brown,
"the heavy price of institutionalized protection is always
a measure of dependence and agreement to abide by the
protector's rules." True democracy, she insists, requires
sharing power, not regulation by it; freedom, not protection.
Refusing any facile identification with one political position
or another, Brown applies her argument to a panoply of topics,
from the basis of litigiousness in political life to the
appearance on the academic Left of themes of revenge and a
thwarted will to power. These and other provocations in
contemporary political thought and political life provide an
occasion for rethinking the value of several of the last two
centuries' most compelling theoretical critiques of modern
political life, including the positions of Nietzsche, Marx,
Weber, and Foucault...
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This is an experimental Black cultural studies site set up
because of a lack of resources on the internet around questions of ethnicity, race, and
gender among populations of the African diaspora. (though there are certainly some
wonderful exceptions) We certainly do not make any claims for this collection of resources
as exhaustive. To begin the task, the creators of this page decided to include
bibliographical information on cultural workers working in such areas as Black literary
criticism, Black popular culture, Critical Race Theory and film theory. The decision was
made to assemble this information under the rubric "Black Cultural Studies", a
problematic and contested term which will no doubt require some revision. Individual
Pages include:
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This site gathers resources relevant to the philosophical study of culture
and ethnicity. Included here are links to philosophy in specific cultures,
philosophical anthropology, and cross-cultural and intercultural philosophy. This is not a page dealing with philosophy in
Western culture, for the most part, except inasmuch as that philosophy is expressed in cultural or ethnic terms.
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CTHEORY is an international journal of theory, technology and
culture. Articles, interviews, and key book reviews in contemporary discourse are
published weekly as well as theorisations of major "event-scenes" in the
mediascape. Edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker.
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Site maintained by George Landow. This website consists
largely of elaborate student projects, some containing several hundred documents and
images. If you want to know how the new reading and writing are taking form, have a look.
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Cultural studies draws from the fields of anthropology,
sociology, gender studies, feminism, literary criticism, history and psychoanalysis in
order to discuss contemporary texts and cultural practices. This site has a
search engine to pull up texts from various fields by author and by works.
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Hypertext Theory
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The
"Frankfurt School": Bloch, Adorno, Marcuse et al.
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Created and maintained by James R. Elkins, Professor of Law, West Virginia University.
This site investigates the relationship between Lawyers
and Film.
Excerpt:
There is now a growing body of literature, legal scholarship,
and web-resources on lawyers and film. Lawyers and legal
issues have never been more prominent in popular culture--film, television, novels--than they are today.
Consequently, there is a growing recognition on the part of law teachers and legal scholars that popular culture (in all its
forms) deserves attention and scholarly study.
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This site is a list of links to other more involved sites. The
List Includes:
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'polylog' is an interdisciplinary scholarly forum for
philosophical dialogue across cultures, with a bi-annual text section and
a constantly updated service section. 'polylog' focuses on examples and
methods of intercultural philosophy as well as methodological reflection
on comparative philosophy, problems of inter- and multi-cultural
phenomena, inter-religious questions, and philosophical work that
explicitly considers its own cultural context.
This website is in English, Spanish and German.
Site Includes:
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group -- The forum provides the possibility of raising questions
and leading discussions on topics relevant to intercultural
philosophy.
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| Calendar
-- Current event announcements relevant to an intercultural
philosophy.
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directory -- Links to sources in intercultural philosophy:
projects, institutions, lexicons, discussion groups, bibliographies,
journals, etc.
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Site maintained by George Landow. A prize-winning
website with materials on postcolonial theory as well as on literature, culture, and
society of Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, the Indian Subcontinent, Singapore, and
other regions that have produced literature in English.
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From the Faculty
of Humanities, The Nottingham Trent University.
Site includes:
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Knowledge is a fabric of relations in which one
individual is fundamentally entwined with all others in a collective discourse. This page
illustrates that woven fabric Each of the following sites links to the Postmodern site
here at U.C. Denver. The UCD page serves, not as a hub, presuming some priviledged
position, but as a conductive thread, one of many fibers which transforms a collection of
unique sites into a common woven text. This Corollary page returns a thread to each of the
diverse sites, strengthening possibilities for community within this collective fabric
known as postmodern thought. This site is extensive, covering postmodern
philosophy, Cultural theory, and postmodern thought, including:
Cultural Studies:
Critical Theory:
Literary Theory:
Sociology:
Media Studies:
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Site maintained by George Landow. This scholarly and
educational website, which more than two dozen organizations have honored, contains
materials on Victorian art, economics, literature, political and social history, religion,
and science.
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