introduction| commentary| analysis| web projects resources| feedback| search the site!| about the author| Key Meeting Places: The CULTSTUD-L Discussion List Popcultures.com: Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center

Welcome to www.culturalstudies.net This is our new home! Many more changes, additions, and innovations are coming this summer. Don't touch that back button!

The CSC Reading Room is open again. (Please go to http://www.washtech.org/day2/index.html for information on how to help the Amazon.com customer support workers.) Once the Reading Room is open, we will begin to add the following: Growth from one to several to many booksellers, large and small. We will also have links to books in the public domain. We have no plans to leave Amazon, but do wish our surfers to pay attention to the situations of workers in ALL e-commerce companies. Partnerships with other academic/reading/writing supply dealers like Levenger and/or whomever is interested in setting up a partnership to offer high quality products helpful to academics. I will direct you to good prices for good products on these sites. Remember, CSC gets absolutely no financial support of any other kind. Any revenue from these partnerships will go directly toward the upkeep of the site until such time as CSC is awarded significant grant money. This is especially helpful lately since CSC's editor has been through a number of serious personal hardships during the past year. Some folks have the impression that I actually have a large staff, but this is not the case. By the end of the millenium, it grew to the point where a nice-sized staff might have come in handy. At this point, CSC would like to have a small and dedicated staff with whom to work. I hope to see this happen in the next year or so. (Even if we do manage to be awarded some grant money, we will continue to offer pointers to excellent books and academic supplies. We just won't take any money for them in that happy event.) We will very soon have reading groups dedicated to individual books with threaded discussions associated with each group. This will be the central and most important content of The Reading Room. And we'll see what else . . .

Welcome!
You've found the cultural studies meeting house.
If you love to talk about, learn about, and enjoy contemporary culture,
come along for the ride . . .

• "Canonizing the Popular"
  A cautionary tale by the author that asks some pointed questions about the recent direction of cultural studies.
  
  
• Rants 'n' Raves
  An interactive bulletin board of unbridled and opinionated cultural commentary and analysis. Your contributions are welcome and necessary. Something you need to rant or rave about? Well, this is the place!
  
  
• New "Selected Events" section coming later this fall! Don't touch that dial!!
  Please let CSC know about your event!
  
  
• Check out more information about coming attractions.

The Neverland

"Reconstructing Michael Jackson," A dynamic, interactive collection of close readings - please join in! Updated November 19, 1998 LIFE magazine's "The World of Children," a brief excerpt from the author's doctoral dissertation. Coming Soon: Sins of the Father - A multimedia bricolage of images, sounds, and words. The work is still in production, so any contributions or suggestions are welcome! Note to contributors: All contributions should conform to the "fair-use" provisions of U.S. copyright law.

• Richard Polt's Classic Typewriter Page
  A remarkable and thoroughly absorbing work of cultural archeology. You'll be here for hours!
  
  
• Border Crossings
  An innovative exploration of the various "borders" that divide and define the modern world. Not to be missed.
  
  
• Art Crimes - Graffiti!
  
  
• Library of Congress American Memory Collection
  One of the finest and most important sites on the Web, this repository of American life and history features text, photos, recordings, and original documents.
  
  
• Center for Utopian Studies
  Shared hopes, dreams, and fears, masterfully crafted in pure HTML by Andy Wood. Fun, too.
  
  
• Ioan Davies: Articles, Journals, Fictions
  An innovative collection of significant cultural studies works. A must-see.
  
  
• Retro - The Magazine of 20th Century Popular Culture
  A rich smorgasbord of pop culture with an historical bent. Beautifully presented.
  
  
• The Urban Legends Archives - Will your illusions be crushed? Find out for yourself.
  
  

Building a special project? Let CSC know about it!

• American Studies Web
  Extensive collection of American Studies resources.
  
  
• Bad Subjects
  The magazine and mailing list with an aggresively progressive take on everyday life and culture. Founded in 1992 at UC Berkeley.
  
  
• The Bakhtin Centre - From the University of Sheffield.
  
  
• Black Cultural Studies
  Resources focusing on questions of ethnicity, race and gender among groups who are of African descent.
  
  
• M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture
  David Marshall's "crossover" journal of accessible yet eloquent prose about the world of media and popular culture. The journal, initiated by Marshall, is supported by a variety of contributors from the University of Queensland and elsewhere. M/C aims to cross the boundaries between academic and popular criticism, and does so splendidly. All writings are distributed electronically by webmaster/contributor Axel Bruns; enjoy!
  
  
• Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought
  An indispensible wealth of resources, links to full-text articles, and information. By Martin Ryder of the University of Colorado at Denver.
  
  
• CTHEORY
  An international journal of theory, technology, and culture. Go ahead, gorge yourself; this is a nearly bottomless resource of ideas and opinion on just about everything in the modern world. Just don't say you weren't warned.
  
  
• The University of Birmingham Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology
  The real "cultural studies central."
  
  
• Cultronix
  An electronic journal of contemporary cultural studies. One of the many rich resources on Carnegie Mellon University's English department server.
  
  
• COUNTERBLAST
  A wonderful new electronic journal of culture and communications studies. Full-text articles for your enjoyment on-line! This is a new journal, and it looks to be a grand success!
  
  
• CULTSTUD-L
  A cultural studies listserv. The web site also has needed information.
  
  
• Cultural Dynamics - An international journal of interdisciplinary cultural studies.
  
  
• Cultural Studies Resources
  The University of Iowa Libraries' guide to cultural studies resources.
  
  
• Cultural Studies Resources Page
  From Towson State University's Scott Allen and Paul Miers.
  
  
• differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
  Features some full-text journal articles.
  
  
• Franco-American Women's Institute
  
  
• George Mason University - Some Cultural Studies Links
  A helpful collections of references from George Mason University's program in Cultural Studies.
  
  
• Humanities Hub
  A superb, thorough, and well-organized guide to humanities resources, including Cultural Studies. Maintained by the Faculty of Humanities, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
  
  
• The Internet Research Pointer (IRP) - Topic: Humanities
  A great place to really find what you're looking for. Check out the rest of the site.
  
  
• Journal of Mundane Behavior
  A serious and thorough look at the depth and breadth of "the ordinary" in everyday life. Edited by Myron Orleans, from Cal State Fullerton. Well worth looking into and then some.
  
  
• The Marx-Engles Internet Archive
  An ever growing compilation of the classic works. Cultural Studies before it was cool.
  
  
• MCS - The Media and Communications Site
  Perhaps the richest collection of media scholarship on or off the 'net. You'll never stop returning!
  
  
• Media Representations of Masculinity
  A superb collection of links to full-text articles and other important resources on the subject. By Marj Kibby of the University of Newcastle.
  
  
• Melibea - A journal of Spanish culture and cultural studies. En Español.
  
  
• Popcultures.com: Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center
  An up-to-date and extraordinarily comprehensive guide to cultural studies resources. If you can't find it here, it probably doesn't exist! The center is now thorougly revamped and offers even more of what you've come to depend on. An electronic 'zine is also on its way. The best of the best!
  
  
• Postmodern Culture - An electronic journal of interdisciplinary criticism.
  
  
• Praxis
  A new, "insurgent" site produced by the sociology department of UC Riverside. Wonderful!
  
  
• Prossiga Rei - Cultural Studies Virtual Library - From Brazil.
  
  
• Public Culture - A global interdisciplinary journal of late twentieth century cultural studies.
  
  
• The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
  An important and growing new site focusing on the study of cyberculture. The Center welcomes interaction and collaboration.
  
  
• The Simon Reynolds Homepage - Musings of A "White Brit Rave Aesthete"
  Uncut music criticism.
  
  
• Sholê: Teaching Culture in a non-linear environment
  Rob Van Craenenburg's groundbreaking pedogogical interventions. An extraordinary site about an even more extraordinary project. Sponsored by the Department of Teacher Training in Gent.
  
  
• Phoebe Sengers' Cultural Studies References and Links - A concise, yet rich guide.
  
  
• Sexuality and Culture - An Interdisciplinary Journal
  An important new journal exploring the cultural, political, social and ethical issues surrounding sexuality. Edited by Barry Dank.
  
  
• Social Text - The online version of the journal.
  
  
• The Sokal Affair
  A comprehensive collection of commentary on the infamous hoax. This will all undoubtedly be in hardcover one day quite soon, so get it now while it's free.
  
  
• Spoon Collective
  The Mother of All cultural studies mailing lists. There should be a list here for whatever tickles your fancy. Also includes plenty of Gopher goodies.
  
  
• www.theory.org.uk
  A splendid praxis of popular culture and theory, theory and popular culture! Dig in and enjoy! From David Gauntlett, University of Leeds, UK. Don't know how this got past me for so long, except that I was under the impression that I had added it long ago. Thanks for your patience, David!
  
  
• The Voice of the Shuttle
  A motherlode of humanities research, including cultural studies and so much more. A splendid production by Alan Liu.
  
  
• Renate Wickens' Sites in Cultural Studies
  An excellent, sharply focused guide to important cultural studies points on the web.
  
  

options

• Adaptive Technology Resource Centre
  For more information about the importance of Lynx Enhancement in making the Web accessible to all.
  
  
• "Ode to Lynx"

• About the author

  
  
  

• Sign the NEW guest book!
• E-mail me! I answer all mail.

Cultural Studies Central has been visited

LINK TO TICKETMASTER EVENTS IN MY HOMETOWN! FIGHT FOR THE FREEDOM TO LINK!!!!!!!