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THEO PAL — A Web Companion to Contemporary Critical Theory on the Web

Please remember:  In synch with the ethos of the web, the list below is always in the making.  Please let us know if you've made new discoveries as you make your excursions into cyberia, and please check out related web pages on this site as well.

Note as well that, while many web sites may be informative and useful, they are typically no substitute for the more sustained scholarly discussion of a book.

TO BE UPDATED AND EXPANDED PERIODICALLY—please stay tuned! Please consult MAL PAL and CAL PAL as well, as the dividing membrane between modern and contemporary/postmodern culture is, much in the spirit of postmodern forms of destabilization, fluid and permeable.

 

THEORIES AND THEORISTS OF POSTMODERNITY — A SAMPLER
 

• The "Map": The Modernism/Postmodernism binary
• Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought Excellent comprehensive site from U. Colorado
• Postmodern Bibliography Extensive, searchable bibliography from U. Virginia
• Spoon Collective Theory Page Excellent guide to postmodern theory discussion lists on the Net
• Theory.Org. Excellent site from the UK. Especialy good on Foucault, Butler and on Queer Theory. Comes with a sense of humor, and a full pack of pomo theorist trading cards (get yours today!)
• Cultural Studies and Critical Theory list Interesting essays and links to some good sites, from the CMU English server
• Everything Postmodern: From Nihilism to Utopia Maybe not everything, but quite a lot
• Panic Enyclopedia On-line pomo anti-encylopedia
• Postmodernism and the Postmodern Novel Good introduction from The Electronic Labyrinth
• Dia Art Foundation An influential postmodern art, performance and theory space
• Cyperspace, Hypertext and Critical Theory Great set of sites from Brown University
• Making Face, Making Soul A Chicana Feminst homepage; multicultural pomo at its best
• K.I.S.S. of the Panopticon Nicely irreverent set of introduction to the useful and the useless elements of postomdern thought (K.I.S.S. "keep it simple stupid")
• Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center This is a truly massive site that includes numerous links to postmodern theory, theorists, and online arcticle of interest to pomo studies, especially those touching on popular culture
• PopCultures.com/theorists and critics
• Pocho.com Postmodern pochos in a virtual barrio website. Seriously parodic Chicano/a studies, news and culture site

INDIVIDUAL THEORISTS & THEORIES
 

• Project Baudrillard
• "Cyberfeminism with a Difference" by Rosi Braidotti. Brilliant article on issues of gender in postmodernity
• Deleuze + Guattari I, D+ G II
• Jacques Derrida
• Umberto Eco homepage
• Michel Foucault Resources
• "Gustavo Gutierrez in Poststructuralist Critique: Toward a Postmodern Liberation" by Jaime Baldboa. An essay in postmodern liberation theology
• Donna Haraway Resource Hub
• Ereignis: The Heidegger Home Page
• Juergen Habermas, "A Lion in Winter" (Biography, The Nation, 14 Sept 2016)
• Fredric Jameson bibliography
• Fredric Jameson Fine site from Stanford introducing Jameson and his key conceptual contributions
• Lacan
• Niklas Luhman (in German); Geoffrey Winthrop-Young on culture wars and media theory (Telepolis, part I, II, in German)
• Lyotard Auto-Differend Page
• Marx and Engels Online Library Before and after pomo, Marx continues to be on the horizon
• Marx and Engels resources
• UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource
• Walter Benjamin -- WB's Afterlife
• Michel Serres, Raoul Mortley, French Philosophers in Conversation, ch. III, Michel Serres (1991)
• The Apprentice in Theory: Fan, Student, Star (on the Avital Ronell-Nimrod Reitman debacle)

POSTMODERN (ONLINE) JOURNALS AND ESSAYS
 

• Postmodern Culture Journal includes criticism, theory, fiction/poetry, and reviews
• electronic book review, cutting edge journal about pomo literary and cultural issues
• New Left Review, a key journal of the international Left and "a new resource for the new century."
• CTheory A. & M. Kroker's journal, with articles, interviews, reviews and pomo "event scenes"
• Bad Subjects An excellent journal from Berkeley seeking to define a postmodern leftist "politics of everyday life"
• Post/Urban Textualities New online journal exploring "rhetoric, spatiality and technology." Asserts that the "boundaries between city and suburb have been blurred" under postmodern conditions.
• Enculturation: An Electric Journal for Cultural Studies, Rhetoric and Theory Broad-ranging journal treating "rhetoric, music, film, literature, and critical/literary/postmodern theory"
• Dear Habermas, a Journal of Postmodern Thought "by undergraduates, for undergraduates"
• Critical Inquiry A leading criticism journal sometimes engaging pomo thought
• Public Culture Excellent journal treating transnational culture and postmodernity
• Modern Fiction Studies Fine resource on modern & contemporary literature
• Magazine Cyberculture A list of numerous on-line 'zines dealing with cyber-pomo
• The Loneliness of Cyborgs Site by Michele Lloyd focusing of various movie cyborgs
• RCCS, Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
• The Effects of Cyberculture
• Postcolonial Literature, India's Post-Rushdie Generation (NYT), The Subcontinent (NYT 5/14),
• Bruce Robbins, Subaltern Studies (n+1)
• The Echoes of Hearts Long Silenced

WRITERS & OTHERS
 

• V.S. Naipaul (NYT)
• Eye on India (annual festival)
• Road Ends for India's Ambassador
• Are "Immigrant Fiction" or "New American" Fiction worthwhile categories?  (3 July 14)
• Three Percent, a resource for international literature
  

MISCELLANEOUS
 

• When We Read Fiction, How Relevant is an Author's Biography? (NYT)
• The Novel: A Biography (Aug 2014)
• Harish Trivedi, Translating Culture vs. Cultural Translation (2005)