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Sites for specific theorists:

Jean Baudrillard Overview (George Landow, et al., Brown U.)
Baudrillard on the Web (Alan Taylor)
The Baudrillard Scene (Timme Bisgaard Munk, U. Copenhagen)
Chance: The Event in the Desert (Nov. 8-10, 1996) ("a philosophical rave and summit meeting between artists and philosophers, chaosophists and croupiers, mathematicians and musicians at Whiskey Pete's Casino in the Nevada desert"; featuring Jean Baudrillard and Allucquere Roseanne Stone)
Project Baudrillard
S(t)imulacrum(b) (extensive Baudrillard page with annotated bibliography and text selections) (Ben Attias)

Writings
America (brief excerpts) (1986) (Industrial Strength Travel)
"Hystericizing the Millennium" (from L'Illusion de la fin: ou La greve des evenements, 1992; trans. Charles Dudas, York U.) (CTHEORY)


Walter Benjamin
1. Benjamin http://pixels.filmtv.ucla.edu/gallery/web/julian_scaff/benjamin/benjamin.html
2. Fragments of the Passagenwerk: A Meander Through the Arcades Project of Walter Benjamin (Giles Peaker)
3. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (Julian H. Scaff)
4. "The Writer's Technique in Thirteen Theses" (excerpts from Walter Benjamin's One-Way Street) (Rita Raley, U. California, Santa Barbara)
• Secondary Literature
  • Carina Yervasi "Pre/Sub/Urban Sprawl: The 19th Century Parisian Passage as 'Failed' Urban Mall" (Speed)

Jorge Luis Borges

Home Pages & General Resources El Jardin de Senderos que se Bifurcan ("The Garden of the Forking Paths" - web page devoted to Jorge Luis Borges) (Allen B. Ruch)
Images of Jorge Luis Borges A Biography and Timeline
The Jorge Luis Borges Center (Ivan Almeida, U. Aarhus, Denmark)

• Bourdieu
• Pierre Bourdieu Page (Georgetown U. Communication, Culture, and Technology Program)


• Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler (excerpts) (Bill Thygerson)


• Guy Debord
  Guy Debord Page The Society of the Spectacle (1967) Howlings in Favor of Sade (1952)
• Gilles Deleuze (and Félix Guattari)
• The Durkheim Pages (Robert Alun Jones, U. Illinois in Urbana-Champaign)

Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (Robert Bruce) The Garden of Forking Paths: A Jorge Luis Borges Website (Allen B. Ruch)
• Foucault Page (A Genealogy of Foucault) (Ben Attias)
• Foucault (biography, links to online texts, links to related Web pages) (Bjorn Christensson)
• http://www.personal.umich.edu/~nwc/aca/hallmain.html (Stuart Hall)
• Frederic Jameson
  Frederic Jameson (bibliography) (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource/Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine) Synopsis of "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) Sean Homer (Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, U. Sheffield), "Fredric Jameson and the Limits of Postmodern Theory" "Theory in the Lobby of the Bonaventure Hotel: The Case of Fredric Jameson" (Re:WIRED; Workshop for the Invention and Research of Electronic Discourse, U. of Florida)
• http://www.sun3.lib.uci.edu/~scctrr/Wellek/jameson/AO9books.html (Fredric Jameson)
• Douglas Kellner's Homepage


• LACAN
• Jean-Francois Lyotard
• Marx
• Friedrich Nietzsche
General Resources
The Nietzsche Page at USC (Douglas Thomas) Nietzsche (biography, links to online texts, links to related Web pages) (Bjorn Christensson) Nietzsche: Mixed Opinions and Maxims (Douglas Thomas) Journal of Nietzsche Studies
Writings
Nietzsche Bibliography (J. F. Humphrey) Nietzsche's Works in English (bibliography) (Douglas Thomas) Nietzsche's Works in German (bibliography) (Douglas Thomas) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (study guide) (Paul Brians, Washington State U.)

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General info, theorists and theories:

• A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace (good set of links to sociology resources on the net) (Michael C. Kearl, Trinity U., Texas)
• Theorists (overviews of major poststructuralist and postmodern theorists; this is a WWW version of a Storyspace "web" produced by George Landow and his students at Brown U.; includes descriptions of Storyspace webs on particular theorists that are accessible only on site at Brown U.)
• Bios, biblios of Black cultural studies authors in Britain & USA
• Bios, biblios of mainly British authors of the past 50 years
• (Dead Sociologists Society

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• Alt.Culture ("an encyclopedia of '90s youth culture that spans grunge and gangsta, indie rock and indie film, cyberpunk and street fashion, extreme sports and political correctness, infomercials and zines. alt.culture both documents and participates in the nexus of popular culture and digital media"; searchable) (Nathaniel Wice and Steven Daly)
• Art Journals (Video On Line, Cagliari, Italy)
• http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/stt/home.htm ( UK site for Studies in Social Theory)
• http://www.tryoung.com/index.htm (Red Feather Institute)
• http://www.crane.ukc.ac.uk/grs/phil/rp (Radical Philosophy)
• Bibliography of Cultural Studies (Michael Uebel, U. Virginia)
• Black Cultural Studies Web Site (Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee)
• Border Crossings (links to sites relating to the various "borders" that demarcate the postmodern and postindustrial social imagination) (Karla Tonella / Communication Studies, U. Iowa)
• Centre for Social Theory and Technology, Keele U.
• Critical and Cultural Theory Resources (George Washington U. Program in Human Sciences)
• Critical Approaches to Cultural Studies (Ron Burnett, McGill U.)
• Cultural Studies and Critical Theory (English Server, Carnegie Mellon U.)
• Cultural Studies and Postmodernism (annotated guide to resources) (Dennis Des Chene, Johns Hopkins U.)
• Critical Theory Archives (Critical Theory Institute, U. California, Irvine)
• Nothing Bloody Stands Still (multi-author work on identity and ethnicity in the era of globalization/internationalization; from the Cross Boundaries Seminar in Amsterdam, April 1991) (XS2CS)
• Borges Fetishization (part of U. Florida Fetish project)
• Show Your Fetish (collective hypertext writing experiment using X-Change Space) (Gregory Ulmer, U. Florida) * Show Your Fetish: The Proposal *
• Progressive Sociologists VIRTUAL CAFE
   
• Publications With WWW Sites
• Cultural Studies Journals / Archives (Sarah Zupko)
Expanded Academic Index (telnet catalogue to academic journal literature, 1980 to present) (Indiana U.) Sociology Electronic Journals (SocioSite / Albert Benschop)
• CTHEORY
• Thinknet Philosophy Journals

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• History-Methods (listserv archives)
• History-Sources (listserv archives)
• Selective Counter Culture TimeLine: 1095-present
• Women Throughout History (WWWomen!)
• Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography ("historiography, erudition, philosophies of history, methodologies of historical research, didactics of history" relating to "modern historical culture" from the end of the 15th-century to the contemporary age; in English and Italian) (Guido Abbattista, U. Trieste / Rolando Minuti, U. Firenze)
• Alternate History List (annotated, cross-indexed list of fiction works involving alternate histories) (R. B. Schmunk)
  

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  Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought,
  York University, 4700 Keele Street, North York (Toronto), Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3