Links on Critical and Cultural Theory

Resource Pages

• Voice of the Shuttle, Literary and Cultural Theory Pages
• www.theory.org.uk/, an excellent on-line resource for theory and cultural studies.
• Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center, a good point through which to access on-line theoretical material
• "Cultural Studies and Critical Theory"
• The Wellek Library Lecturer Bibliographies, a very useful aggregate of work on an important selection of theorists.

On-Line Journals and Essays Collections

• Illuminations, an on-line journal and resource page focusing principally on the Frankfurt School
• CTheory, an International Journal of Theory, Technology and Culture
• Click here to connect to Representations, an on-line version of the journal edited by Greenblatt focussing principally on cultural poetics and cultural materialism.

Selected Essays

• "Astronomical Hindsight: The Speed of Light and Virtual Reality," an essay by Martin Jay on the visual.
• "Light Weapons," an essay by Thomas Keenan on Auschwitz and the Enlightenment.
• "Whatever Intellectuals: The Politics of Thought in Post-disciplinary Societies," an essay by Robert C. Thomas.
• "Conditions of their Own Making: An Intellectual History of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham," by Norma Schulman.

Significant Figures in Cultural Theory

Theodor Adorno

• The Hall of Thinkers Theodor Adorno Page
• A Page of Adorno-related links.
• Critical Cultural Theory: Adorno.
• Three excerpts from Adorno's writing.
• The Adorno page at [www.theory.org.uk].

Giorgio Agamben

• A review, by Calin-Andrei Mihailescu, of The Idea of Prose.
• Agambeniana, a bibliography of Agamben's work.
• "Du témoignage," a review (in French), by Frédéric Grolleau, of Ce qui reste d'Auschwitz.

Walter Benjamin

• A site on the Arcades Project
• The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate
• "Theses on the Philosophy of History"
• "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
• "The Case of Extreme Danger: Central Europe, Kafka With Benjamin," an essay (with photos) by Dragan Kujundzic on Benjamin, Kafka and Blanchot.

Maurice Blanchot

• A brief page on the enigmatic Blanchot.
• Maurice Blanchot Resource Page.
• Source material and scenario for a program on Blanchot for a French television series, Un Siècle d'écrivains (in French).
• A page on Blanchot, with links (in French).
• "The Fragmentary Word," an essay on Blanchot by Philip Beitchman.
• "Blanchot & friends," a review essay by Mathew Del Nevo on Blanchot's Friendship.
• The Negative Eschatology of Maurice Blanchot, a thesis by Kevin Fitzgerald.

Pierre Bourdieu

• Pierre Bourdieu Bibliography.
• Pierre Bourdieu Links.
• Interviews and Resources, in French.
• Response, by Daniel Schneidermann, to "Arrêt sur images," a program on Bourdieu he produced.
• Bourdieu, Schneidermann et le journalisme: Analyse d'une contre-critique, a thesis by Pascal Fortin on this debate (in French).

Gilles Deleuze

• The script of L'Abecedaire de Gilles Deleuze (in English), an 8-hour video interview with Claire Parnet.
• "The World Seen From Within: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Events," by Paul Patton.
• Deleuze and Guattari internet resources.
• Click here to connect to Web Deleuze (in French).
• Click here for a large set of links on Gilles Deleuze.

Paul de Man

• Click here for an extensive bibliography of work by and on Paul de Man.
• Click here for a publisher's blurb on a book on De Man by Derrida.
• Click here for "Deconstruction is not a Memory," an excerpt of an interview with Derrida about De Man (with images).

Jacques Derrida

• "The Shadow Archive: From Light to Cinder," a paper by Akira Mizuta Lippit on Derrida, Japan and the secret, with reference to Blanchot.
• "Time, Space, Deconstruction, Plagues of Cats, Apocalypse, etc.," an interview with Prof. David Wood of the University of Warwick.
• Click here for "Writing in Reserve: Deconstruction on the Net, Jacques Derrida Online" (an excellent web page with texts by Derrida as well as bibliographies and links).
• Click here for a page on Derrida, with clear explanations of his philosophical work, mounted by Stanford University for their "Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts."
• Click here for a set of "Derridean Links."
• Click here for JACQUES DERRIDA: A READING GUIDE.
• Click here for a page outlining basic aspects of Derridean philosophy and deconstruction.
• Click here for "Introduction to Jacques Derrida" by Roger Geertz Gonzalez (with good links).

Vladimir Jankélévitch

• An excerpt from "Pelléas and Pénélope," with a note by Arnold Davidson, published in Critical Inquiry.
• "La musicologia filosofica di Vladimir Jankélévitch," by Carlo Migliaccio (in Italian).
• "Ne pas oublier," a short excerpt from L'Imprescriptible (Seuil, 1986), in French.
• A page on Jankélévitch, including excerpts from La Mort (in French).

Julia Kristeva

• Julia Kristeva: A Bibliography.
• Summary of Major Themes: "Kristeva and Feminism", by Kelly Oliver (with excellent links).

Michel Leiris

• Michel Leiris 1901-1990.

Emmanuel Lévinas

• The Emmanuel Levinas Web Page.
• The Levinas Page.
• Levinas English Bibliography.
• "FACING 'O': WILFRED BION, EMMANUEL LEVINAS, AND THE FACE OF THE OTHER," by Edward Emery.

Herbert Marcuse

• An extensive overview on Marcuse. There are some bad links on this site that need work.
• Herbert Marcuse’s 100th birthday, an Exhibition at the Stadt und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main 20th July - 7th August 1998.
• BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON HERBERT MARCUSE.
• Marcuse.org, pages of philosopher Herbert Marcuse and descendants.
• Bibliography (in French) on Marcuse, at dialectiques.
• The Herbert Marcuse Internet Archive.
• Quotations from Marcuse's work.
• Herbert Marcuse, a site at Erratic Impact (with texts and links).
• HERBERT MARCUSE By Douglas Kellner.

Edward Said

• "My Encounter with Sartre," by Edward Said.
• Orientalism: a Brief Definition, from Orientalism (1979), by Edward Said.
• The Edward Said Archive.
• Edward W. Said: A Bibliography.

Raymond Williams

• Raymond Williams in Retrospect by Maurice Cowling.
• The Technology Is Not the Cultural Form? Raymond Williams's Sociological Critique of Marshall McLuhan by Paul Jones.
• Excerpts from Raymond Williams, Keywords.
• An excellent page on Raymond Williams, with good links.

Movements, Methods, Disciplines

New Historicism

• Click here for "The Professor of Disenchantment (Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism)," by Mitchell Stephens.
• Click here for "Beyond New Historicism: Marlowe's unnatural histories and the melancholy properties of the stage," an essay on New Historicist and cultural materialist readings of Christopher Marlowe's drama, by Drew Milne.
• Click here for "New Historicism Explained."
• Click here for a page explaining New Historicism and cultural poetics.
• Click here for a brief definition of New Historicism.
• Click here for "Reading With An Eye on Discourse," an essay-assignment page (from another class) discussing New Historicism.

Psychoanalysis

• Click here for A BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THOUGHT by Brent Dean Robbins.
• Click here for introductions to various types of psychoanalytic thought.
• Click here for pages of links on Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Zizek.
• Click here for a large set of links on Jacques Lacan.
• Click here for Jacques Lacan's Seminar on The Purloined Letter.
• Click here for "Psychoanalysis and Film Study in the 1990s" by Krin Gabbard.