Web resources on postmodernism and related research
©Werner Hammerstingl, 1998,2001 |
This is a small list
of available research around postmodernism. Please keep me informed of expired
links so that I can keep this page as useful as possible. Naturally if you know
of good sites not listed here I'd love to hear about them. The same goes for any
interesting texts in the area.
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Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought Part of the
Theoretical
Sources Meta Index of Martin Ryder at the University of Colorado at Denver,
this is a remarkable source of information. The various subdirectories are well
cross-referenced. Other links site that apply to CyberCulture, Cognitive Theory,
Postmodernism etc. :
Celebrities
in Cognitive Science
Hypertext
Interenet
Culture
The
Neo-Luddite Reaction
Semiotics
The
Sociology of Knowledge
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While not explicitly
about Postmodernism, this is an extensive and very useful site concerned
with media studies, using media in the most catholic sense of the word. Based
at the University of Wales at Aber ystwyth,
this is the work of Daniel Chandler.
Subdirectories include Semiotics and Content Analysis, Th eories of Active Interpretation,
and The Written and Spoken Word. top
Part of the massive
English Server at Carnegie Mellon, this is easily the most eclectic collection
of articles, sites and sources that I have run across. Set up alphabetically,
its selections range from Alien Abductions and the End of White People
by Annalee Newitz to The World of The World of Coca Cola by Ted Friedman.
Along the way are pieces by Kathy Acker, Bell Hooks, Guy DeBord, Michel Foucault.
All and all, well worth the look if you are looking for provocative thought. top
This site by Greg
Broquard, a student at Augustana College, is an excellent collection of links.
Not only does it have links to a number of indices, its list of Important People
and Other Interesting Developments is very useful. top
This is the list of
postmodern sites from Wendy Robinson's rather remarkable course/site Ethics and the Internet which is
taught at Duke University. Her list of linked
Required Readings
is a major site in and of itself. top
Like all of the other
directories on the Voice of the Shuttle, this Meta Index is
about as inclusive as they come. Rather than provide a direct link to the Postmodern
or the Hypertext subsections, this link is directly into the general theory
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Alternative - X: Brought to you
by Mark Amerika, this is a "continuing barrage of Avant-Pop fiction, Internet
columns, interviews, manifestos, Post PoMo essays and more." It is also more
substan tive than the way it describes itself. This bears repeated visits.-->
Bad
Subjects: Presented by The Berkeley Collective, this journal which calls
itself "Political Education for the Everyday Life" is lucid, intelligent and
committed. One of their goal s is to "promote radical thinking about the political
implications of everday life." Another goal is to bring about change. Avowedly
on the left, Bad Subjects makes me a lot saner.
Basilisk:
Basilisk describes itself as "a quarterly journal of film, architecture,
philosophy, literature, music, and perception."
CTHEORY:
Sponsored by the Canadian Journal of Politcal and Social Theory, CTHEORY is
"an international electronic review of books on theory, technology and culture."
It also provi des articles by Kathy Acker, Mark Amerika, Jean Baudrillard, Hakim
Bey and a host of other heavy hitters.
Cultronix:
Presented by the English Departmentand Art Department at Carnegie
Mellon, this journal of cultural studies makes use of a mixed format: text,
graphics, video, audio. Thi s is a very provocative and well-done journal, and
they are currently calling for papers for their fifth volume, Position/Possession.
Parallel:
This site - a Gallery/ Journal - presents an interesting array of articles/
projects. Emphasizing postmodernism and structuralism, its presenters are both
practitioners and th eorists. This place has some very good material.
Perforations:
A "journal/ media kit. Each issue develops different themes of contemporary
life as they relate to technology." Past issues include After the Book;
Aesthetics, Politics and Conspiracy; and Shifting States: Cities
on the Verge." It is produced by
Public Domain, a site whose links to other sites is also a useful resource.
Postmodern
Culture - Published by North Carolina State University, Oxford University
Press and The University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in
the Humanities, PMC is an "electronic journal of interdisciplinary studies."
It is about the best of academia on the Web in this area.
Praxis: Located
at Rutgers University, Praxis is a"Journal of Graduate Theory and Criticism."
At present, it has one issue on-line; however, it has mentioned that more are
on the way.-->
Surfascist
Revolution: Zine (I think) and pretty funny. Actually, I haven't got the
foggiest as to what this is.
UNDERCURRENTS:
This journal describes itself as "an on-line journal for the analysis of the
present" that presents articles "from diverse intellectual perspectives." The
articles are "appli ed analysis rather than theory." From the table of contents
, this journal looks promising.
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I have listed sites
and projects devoted to literary and cultural theorists. If you still have no
idea what "postmodern" means, there are three places to find comprehensive lists
of theorists, often including links to writings: Contemporary Philosophy,
Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought; Voice of the Shuttle: Literary
Theory; and The Spoon Collective .
Spoon
Home Page:The Spoon Collective describes itself as "a group of Net citizens
devoted to free and open discussion of philosophical issues." Its list of mailing
list subjects include Avant Garde, Bataille, Baudrillard, and Blanchot
. This is an excellent site. Each entry has three subdirectories: information,
archives of discussions, and papers. Some of the groups are also establishing
homepages. The Recently
Received Calls for Papers is an excellent resource.
Bakhtin
Centre: The Centre "promotes multi- and inter-disciplinary research on the
works of the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin and the
Bakhtin Circle." One of his major contributions, and probably the one for which
he is best known is his theory of dialogism
Guy Debord and
the 'Situationist International'
The best short introduction to DeBord and the situationists is a short excerpt from Demanding
the Impossible: A history of Anarchism by Peter Marshall. This is important.
DeBord:
The Society of the Spectacle
Guy
Debord Assimilated
The
Situationist International Archive
Situationist
Links
Deleuze and
Guattari
There is quite a bit on Deleuze and Guattari on the Web. Seems pretty obvious.
But the following should get someone started.
Smooth/Striated
Cyberspace: Maintaine and written by Mark Nunes, this is, in his words,
" A compilation of comments on and about the WWW and its relation to D+G's notion
of "smooth space." In addition, check out Pragmatic/ Machinic
Actually, Mark Nunes' page of On-Line Theory is a very
good collection of links to his own works and to that of others on the Web,
and he has links to Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio and Cybertheory.
Rhizomat
Spoon Collective's
Deleuze - Guattari Homepage: An excellent collection of resources, recent
discussions on the list and general information.
Jacques Derrida
Writing
in Reserve: Deconstruction on the Net : The work of Peter Krapp, this is
the most extensive web site devoted ( weird word considering) to Derrida and
Deconstruction in general . Very well organized, this German site also has a
US mirror.
For introductory
information on Derrida and Deconstruction, check out the Jacques Derrida Overview
and the Jacques Derrida Bibliography.
Voice
of the Shuttle: Literary Theory also provides links to secondary literature
on Derrida.
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco: Written
and maintained by R. Daeley, this site provides some on-line texts, essays and
reviews of his work, and a number of links to Eco and to Semiotics.
Porta
Ludovica: Part of the massive Libyrinth, this site provides
extensive material on Eco and his writings. A very good page in conjunction
with Umberto Eco, and semiotics in general is Daniel Chandler's excellent Semiotics
for Beginners.
Michel Foucault
Foucault:
This is the work of Ben Attias
at California State University, Northridge. This
sit e is the best Foucault site that there is on the Web.
Michel Foucault
References: This is primarily a list of links maintained by Patrick Jennings,
and includes a link to Chapter 4: Michel Foucault of Steve Shaviro's work Doom Patrols, his "theoretical fiction about
postmodernism and popular culture."
Sigmund Freud
The
Freud Web
Heidegger
Ereignis:
Heidegger Links
Karl Marx
and Engels
The
Marx/Engels Archive: It is what it says it is. This is an extensive gathering
of texts and information on Marx and Engels. It also contains links to the writings
of Lenin and Trotsky
Marx
and Engels' Writings:Brought to you by The English Server, this is
an archive containing the writings of Marx and Engels. It is extensive to say
the least.
Nietzsche
The Nietzsche Page:
Written and maintained by Douglas Thomas of the University of Southern California, the Annenberg School for Communication,
this site provides an excellent collection of material on Nietzsche. The site
includes biographical information, links to texts, bibliographies, reviews of
work on Nietzsche, and other information. While t here are a number of Web Sites
devoted to Nietzsche, this seems to be the most extensive.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein and
His Children
Wittgenstein
on the Web
The individuals
and goups listed in this section are definitely connected to the postmodern
agenda but are often difficult to classify.
Avant
Pop Central
Corporeal
Theory Home Page: It describes itself as: "an attempt to provide a point
of reference to material archived on the internet which is of interest to
researchers in all disciplines concerned with the theory of the body and corporeality."
Contains a list of links to full-text articles on-line.
Stelarc
Allucquere Rosanne (Sandi) Stone
AdaWeb
MKZDK
The
Spectacular State: Fascism and the Modern Imagination
V2
on W3
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