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The Center For Internet Research
The Center for Internet Research (TCFIR) is a transdisciplinary research organization created with the purpose of systematically investigating the vast intersection of Internet technology and the human experience.
research  internet  intellectual 
september 2011 by infomentation
MMXI – Celebrating 100 years of McLuhan – Marshall McLuhan
media  biography  intellectual  journalism 
july 2011 by infomentation
Welcome to Gastronomica
A journal dedicated to the study of food.
food  cooking  intellectual  scholarship  academia  art 
january 2011 by infomentation
Switchback
Switchback is a publication of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program of the University of San Francisco. Switchback publishes fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and critical essays and displays visual art. An issue's theme presents a platform from which to investigate writing from contrasting points of view.
journals  intellectual  writing  poetry  literature  academia 
february 2010 by infomentation
Demos - Ideas & Action
social_change  politics  intellectual  public_policy  activism 
may 2009 by infomentation
Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate
news  humanities  intellectual  academia 
may 2009 by infomentation
Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.
academia  intellectual  education 
february 2009 by infomentation
Sociological Images » Seeing is Believing
Seeing is Believing. What with the kids these days being all media-saturated, a good image is often more effective for getting a point across than all the citations, repetition, or jumping up and down and saying "really I swear" can ever do. This blog ...
blogs  intellectual 
may 2008 by infomentation
The Heather Gold Show
The website of my acquaintance, Heather Gold. She's brilliant and hilarious.
comedy  feminism  intellectual 
may 2008 by infomentation
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
This is amazing. Charles Darwin's publications available to the public, including his private papers.
scholarship  intellectual  science 
may 2008 by infomentation
Lessig.org
Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. He's a smart guy with good politics.
intellectual  civil_rights 
april 2008 by infomentation
== Free Culture / Free Content ==
From Lawrence Lessig, a website dedicated to challenging the cultural shift towards making information available only to those who can pay for it.
intellectual  internet  civil_rights  politics  activism 
april 2008 by infomentation
Brookings - Quality. Independence. Impact.
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization providing innovative and practical recommendations that advance three broad goals: strengthen American democracy; foster the economic and social welfare, security and opportunity of al...
intellectual  politics  progressive_politics 
april 2008 by infomentation
Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason
Susan Jacoby is the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, in its tenth hardcover printing (Metropolitan Books) and just out in paperback. Freethinkers was hailed in the New York Times as an ardent and insightful work that seeks to r...
intellectual  politics 
march 2008 by infomentation
Elizabeth Whitney
Performance artist Elizabeth Whitney. She got a nice little write-up in Bitch Magazine.
theater  activism  lgbt  feminism  intellectual 
march 2008 by infomentation
Brainstorm
The blog from the Chronicle of Higher Education. So far, there are no people of color included amongst their bloggers. I'm sure it's worth watching, though.
blogs  intellectual  academia 
march 2008 by infomentation
FORA.tv - Videos Covering Today's Top Social, Political, and Tech Issues
Videos of the world's top thinkers discussing the most important social, political, cultural, technological, and ethical issues that the world faces today. Join the discussion at FORA.tv and let your opinions be heard. The world is thinking - be a part...
tv  politics  intellectual 
february 2008 by infomentation
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi
history  intellectual  southern_culture 
february 2008 by infomentation
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
In the heart of the Silicon Valley, legal doctrine is emerging that will determine the course of civil rights and technological innovation for decades to come. The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), housed at Stanford Law School and a part of the L...
stanford  internet  social_networking  intellectual 
february 2008 by infomentation
Center for Social Media at American University
The website of the Center for Social Media at American University. Lots of interesting stuff here for those interested in the impact on new social media on popular culture and society.
intellectual  information_management  social_media  media 
january 2008 by infomentation
Beacon Broadside
Beacon Broadside, a project of Beacon Press, is a forum for ideas, opinions, and reflections by Beacon authors, staff, and friends. The mission of Beacon Broadside is to extend this tradition of thought-provoking, fearless commentary beyond the realm o...
spirituality  social_justice  civil_rights  publishing  intellectual 
january 2008 by infomentation
A Cyborg Manifesto:Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
For me, reading this essay in grad school was a transformative experience. Though I don't live a life of an academic any more, I still find myself reaching back and referring to this piece. It is subversive and empowering, complex and dangerous. I love...
intellectual  feminism 
january 2008 by infomentation
Donna Haraway - Professor of Feminist Theory and Technoscience - Biography
Donna Haraway is a Professor of Feminist Theory and Technoscience at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. She is a wide range scholar-thinker who is internationally known as historian of science, cultural critic and feminist theorist....
intellectual  feminism 
january 2008 by infomentation
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC is devoted to giving serious authors free rein to say what's right and what's wrong about their disciplines and about the world, including what's never been said before. The result is intellectuals unbound, writing unconstra...
books  publishing  intellectual 
january 2008 by infomentation
Dick Gregory Global Watch
Dick Gregory 60's comedian, vegetarian, Civil Rights activist, a drum major for equal rights and nutritional consultant.
civil_rights  african_american  social_justice  activism  intellectual 
december 2007 by infomentation
Intelligence Squared
To meet the pent up demand for participating in the intellectual struggles of the day, Intelligence Squared is a new organisation which is launching a regular series of high profile debates in London.
intellectual  podcasts 
november 2007 by infomentation
Conceptual Metaphor Home Page
This server is a research tool for cognitive scientists and others interested in the study of conceptual metaphor systems. Ongoing work in the metaphor system of English and other languages is made available here using a hypertext format which allows t...
writing  language  intellectual 
november 2007 by infomentation
U B U W E B
A vast and interesting collection of avant-garde and outsider art sound files. It is completely free and experimental, deliberately ignoring copyright laws.
radio  internet_radio  art  popular_culture  intellectual  information_management  subversive 
november 2007 by infomentation
Manning Marable
Manning Marable's official website. He is the founding director of the Center for Contemporary Black History at Columbia University. He is also a fellow Earlhamite.
african_american_heritage  history  american_history  african_american  intellectual  social_justice  activism 
november 2007 by infomentation
18th Annual Chicago Humanities Festival
Lectures, readings, and performances.
chicago  intellectual 
november 2007 by infomentation
religion online
Full texts by religious scholars. Topics include Bible, Theology, Ethics, Church and Society, Communication, Cultural Studies, Homiletics, Missions, Comparative Religion, Sociology and Education.
religion  reference  intellectual  scholarship 
september 2007 by infomentation
Stay Free! Daily
The blog from Stay Free!, one of my favorite magazines for cultural criticism.
blogs  popular_culture  intellectual  media 
september 2007 by infomentation
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
One of the best bookstores in the world.
books  chicago  intellectual 
september 2007 by infomentation
Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason
Bill Moyers' wonderful series on faith.
pbs  tv  faith  intellectual 
september 2007 by infomentation
Gastronomica
The Journal of Food and Culture
food  journals  intellectual 
august 2007 by infomentation
Jelani Cobb
The website of Jelani Cobb, Professor of History at Spelman College.
intellectual  african_american  popular_culture  hip_hop 
july 2007 by infomentation
Michael Eric Dyson
Dr. Michael Eric Dyson is the author of Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip Hop; Debating Race; Come Hell or High Water; Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?; The Michael Eric Dyson Reader; Open Mike; Holler If You Hear Me...
intellectual  african_american  hip_hop  popular_culture 
july 2007 by infomentation
April D. DeConick
The website of April DeConick, Professor of Biblical Studies at Rice University. Her studies focus on the "Forbidden Gospels," such as the Gnostics and the Gospels of Thomas, Judas, and Mary Magdalene.
gnostic_gospels  bible  intellectual 
july 2007 by infomentation
Speaking of Faith
Speaking of Faith, from American Public Media, is public radio's national conversation about belief, meaning, ethics, and ideas. Each week, host Krista Tippett looks at the common and larger themes of American life through perspectives of faith, relyin...
religion  spirituality  radio  intellectual 
june 2007 by infomentation
Robert Reich's Blog
Robert Reich is a brilliant economist and intellectual. He is a true progressive who is a proponent of sustainable communities and social justice.
intellectual  activism  progressive_politics  social_justice 
may 2007 by infomentation
The American Prospect
The American Prospect was founded in 1990 as an authoritative magazine of liberal ideas, committed to a just society, an enriched democracy, and effective liberal politics. Robert Kuttner, Robert Reich, and Paul Starr launched the magazine initially as...
progressive_politics  media  journals  intellectual 
may 2007 by infomentation
Lawrence Lessig
Professor Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace.
blogs  intellectual  internet  law 
may 2007 by infomentation
Stanford on iTunes U
Stanford iTunes -- on-line audio repository for Stanford University.
stanford  intellectual 
december 2006 by infomentation
Geoffrey Nunberg
Geoffrey Nunberg
intellectual  popular_culture  language 
december 2006 by infomentation
B. Ruby Rich
B. Ruby Rich is a well-known film critic, festival programmer, cultural theorist, and chronicler of social trends on screen and off.
movies  feminism  popular_culture  lgbt  intellectual 
december 2006 by infomentation
VG: Voices from the Gaps
Women artists and writers of color
feminism  intellectual 
december 2006 by infomentation
bell hooks - Revolutionary Activist!
intellectual  feminism  civil_rights  african_american_heritage 
december 2006 by infomentation
Rockridge Institute
The Rockridge Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank dedicated to strengthening our democracy by providing intellectual support to the progressive community. We partner with advocates, activists, and policy professionals to articulate the s...
intellectual  politics  activism 
november 2006 by infomentation
Cornel West
One of my heros.
african_american_heritage  intellectual  activism  civil_rights  progressive_christianity 
november 2006 by infomentation

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