Televisual Culture, SFAI, Spring 2020 Syllabus
Televisual Culture Assignment 03
Appadurai, Arjun, Modernity At Large
- Ch 1., Here and Now, 1 -23
- Ch 2., Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy, 27 – 47
Aristophanes, The Clouds, from Four Texts on Socrates, pp.115 – 176
Arnason, H.H. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography
- Ch. 1, The Sources of Modern Painting
- Ch. 2, Realism Impressionism and Early Photography
- Ch. 5, Art Nouveau and the Beginnings of Expressionism
- Ch. 6, The Origins of Modern Sculpture
- Ch. 7, Fauvism
- Ch. 8, Expressionism in Germany
- Ch. 9, The Figurative Tradition in Early 20th-Century Sculpture
- Ch. 10, Cubism
- Ch. 11, Futurism, Abstraction in Russia, and de Stijl
- Ch. 12, Early 20th-Century Architecture
- Ch. 13, From Fantasy to DADA and the New Objectivity
- Ch. 15, Surrealism
- Ch. 16, Modern Architecture Between the Wars
- Ch. 17, International Abstraction Between the Wars
- Ch. 18, American Art Before WWII
- Ch. 19, Abstract Expressionism and the New American Art
- Ch. 20, Post-War European Art
- Ch. 21, Pop-Art and Europe’s New Realism
- Ch. 22, Sixties Abstraction
- Ch. 23, The Second Wave of International Style Architecture
- Ch. 24a, The Pluralistic 70s, PART I
- Ch. 24b, The Pluralistic 70s, PART II
- Ch. 25, Post-Modernism in Architecture
- Ch. 26, The Retrospective 80s
- Ch. 27, Resistance and Resolution
Baudrillard, Jean. “The Ecstacy of Communication,” pp 1 – 9
Baudrillard, Jean. “Simulacra and Simulation” pp 1 – 45
Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” pp.217 – 251
Bhabha, Homi, “Introduction” to The Location of Culture, pp. 1 – 27
Bhabha, Homi, “Ch. 9, The Postcolonial and the Postmodern,” The Location of Culture, 245-282
Birnbaum, Dara, in conversation with Cory Archangel, Art Forum, January 2009, pp. 191 – 198
Bishop, Claire. “Antanogism And Relational Aesthetics,” pp 51 – 79
Bishop, Claire, “Mimetic Engulfment,” from Installation Art, pp. 82 – 101
Bishop, Claire, “Heightened Perception,” from Installation Art, pp. 48 – 81
Botton, Jerry, “A Global Renaissance,” The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction, 19-37
Bourriaud, Nicolas, “Globalization, National Identities, and the Production of Signs,” 101-108
Bourriaud, Nicolas. Post-Production.
Bourriaud, Nicolas, The Radicant
Bourriaud, Nicolas, “Relational Form,” pp. 10 – 24
Bowness, Alan, from Modern European Art
- Ch. 1: Manet and le Salon des Refuses: The Birth of Modern Art
- Ch. 2: Impressionism
- Ch. 3: Post-Impressionism
- Ch. 4: Symbolism
- Ch. 5: Expressionism
- Ch. 6: Cubism
- Ch. 7: Abstract Art
- Ch. 8: Surrealism
Buckner, Clark The Supplement at the Origin Or, Deconstruction In a Nutshell, pp. 1 – 5
Butsch, Richard. Screen Culture
- “Ch.1, American Cinema to World War I,” pp. 21 – 37
- “Ch.3, The Hollywood Studio Era,” 1910s-1940s,” pp. 65 – 82“
- Ch.5, Western Television in the Broadcast Era, 1945 – 1990,” pp. 116 – 144
Butler, Judith. “Subjects Of Sex Gender Desire,” Gender Trouble, pp. 1 – 34
Chadwick, Whitney, from Women, Art, and Society
- Introduction: Art History and the Woman Artist
- Ch. 3, The Other Renaissance
- Ch. 4, Domestic Genres and Women Painters in Northern Europe
- Ch. 5, Amateurs and Academics: A New Ideology of Feminity in France and England
Cowell, Steven. Existentialism, from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, pp. 1 – 57
Danto, Arthur. “Art After the End of Art,” pp. 115 – 128
Davenport, Manuel. “An Existential Philosophy of Humor,” pp. 169- 176
Davis, Mike, “Planet of Slums,” 20pgs.
Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Feliz, “Introduction: Rhizome,” A Thousand Plateaus, pp.3 – 24
Derrida. Jacques. “Différance,” pp. 3 – 27
Derrida, Jacques, “Parergon,” from The Truth In Painting, pp. 17 – 147
Derrida, Jacques. “Signature, Event, Context,” pp. 80 – 109
Derrida, Jacques, “The Law of Genre,” pp. 55 – 81
Eisenman, Stephen (ed.) from Nineteenth-Century Art: A Critical History,
- Ch. 3, The Tensions of Enlightenment: Goya, pp. 78 – 97
- Ch. 8, The Generation of 1830 and the Crisis in the Public Sphere, pp. 188 – 206
- Ch. 9, The Rhetoric of Realism: Courbet and the Origins of the Avant-Garde, 206 – 224
Embodied Cognition (about)
Foster, Hal, “What’s So Neo About the Neo-Avant-Garde?,” pp. 5 – 32
Foucault, Michel, The History of Sexuality, Ch.1and 2, pp.17 – 49
Foucault, The History of Sexuality, part I, Ch. 4, “The Deployment of Sexuality,” pp. 77 – 130
Freud, Sigmund. Exerpts from “Notes on A Case of Obsessional Neurosis,”(TheRatMan), pp. 5 – 81
Freud, Sigmund. “Creative Writing and Daydreaming,” pp. 426 – 443
Freud, Sigmund. Excerpts from “Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis,” pp.9 – 28
Freud, Sigmund, “Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning,” pp. 218 – 226
Freud, Sigmund. “Remembering, Repeating, Working Through,” pp. 147 – 156
Golonu, Berin, et al, “Surveillance,” Artweek, 2000, pp. 12 – 19
Gombrich, E.H., The Story of Art
- Ch. 9, The Church Militant
- Ch. 10, The Church Triumphant
- Ch. 11, Courtiers and Burghers
- Ch. 12, The Conquest of Reality
- Ch. 13, Tradition and Innovation I
- Ch. 14, Tradition and Innovation II
- Ch. 15, Harmony Attained
- Ch. 16, Light and Color
- Ch. 17, The New Learning Spreads
- Ch. 18, A Crisis of Art
- Ch. 20, The Mirror of Nature
- Ch. 21, Power and Glory I
- Ch. 23, The Age of Reason
- Ch. 24, The Break in Tradition
- Ch. 25, Permanent Revolution
- Ch. 26, In Search of New Standards
Greenberg, Clement. “Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” pp. 5 – 22
Greenberg, Clement. “Modernist Painting,” pp. 85 – 93
Greenwald, Glen. No Place to Hide, Ch. 04 The Harm of Surveillance
Habermas, Jurgen. “Modernity An Incomplete Project” pp. 1 – 14
Hall, Doug and Pfeiffer, Sally Jo, “Introduction: The Complexities of An Art Form,” pp. 13 – 27
Hanhardt, John, “Video / Media Culture of the Late 20th Century,” pp. 20 – 25
Haraway, Donna J., “A Cyborg Manifesto,” p. 149 – 181
Heidegger, Martin. Selections from Being and Time, part 1: The Question of the Meaning of Being (one pdf), including:
- “The Necessity, Structure, and Priority of the Question of Being,” pp. 21 – 35
- “The Worldhood of the World,” pp. 91 – 107
- “Being-in-the-World as Being-Oneself: The ‘They,'” pp. 153 – 168
Heidegger, Martin. Selections from Being and Time, part 2: Anxiety, Authenticity, and Being-Towards-Death (one pdf), including:
- “The Everyday Being of the There; and the Falling of Dasein,” pp. 210 – 224
- “Dasein’s Possibility of Being-A-Whole, and Being-Towards-Death,” pp. 279 – 311
Heidegger, Martin, “The Origin of the Work of Art,” pp. 17 – 78
Hill, Gary (about)
Identity Politics, from The Stanford Encylclopedia of Philosophy, pp. 1 – 15
Jameson, Fredrick. “Postmodernism and Consumer Society,” 16pgs
Jameson, Fredrick. “The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” 17 pgs
Jurgenson, Nathan. The Social Photo, Ch. 01 Documentary Vision
Jurgenson, Nathan. The Social Photo, Ch. 02 Real Life
JJurgenson, Nathan. The Social Photo, Ch. 03 Coda: The Social Video
Kant, Immanuel. “Analytic of the Beautiful,” from The Critique of Judgment. pp. 43 – 95
Kant, Immanuel. selections on Genius and Fine Art from The Critique of Judgment. pp. 170 – 188
Kaprow, Alan. “The Education of the Un-Artist, part1”
Klein, Naomi, “The Other Shock Doctor (On Milton Friedman),” The Shock Doctrine, pp. 59 – 87
Kotz, Liz, “Video Projection: The Space Between the Screens,” pp. 101 – 115
Krauss, Rosalind, “Informe Without Conclusion,” pp. 89 – 105
Krauss, Rosalind, “Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism,” pp. 50 – 64
Lacan, Jacques. Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis
Lacan, Jacques. “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the ‘I'”
Lacan, “Signification of the Phallus,” from Ecrits, pp. 574 – 584
Lacan, “Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire,”
Levinson, “Hailing Judith Butler: Sex Without Sex, Queering the Market…,” pp. 81 – 101
Lippett, John. “Existential Laughter”
London, Barbara, “Time as Medium: Five Artist’s Video Installations,” pp. 423 – 426
London, Barbara, “Video Spaces: Eight Installations at MoMA,” pp. 14 – 19
Machado, Arlindo, “Video Art: The Brazilian Adventure,” pp. 225 – 231
Marx, Karl. Selections. (one pdf), including:
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- “The Communist Manifesto,” pp. 221 – 228
- “Alienated Labor,” pp. 77 – 96
- “The Fetishism of Commodities,” pp. 435 – 439
McColloch, Gretchen. Because Internet, Ch. 01 Informal Writing
McColloch, Gretchen. Because Internet, Ch. 02 Language and Society
McColloch, Gretchen. Because Internet Ch. 03, Internet People
McColloch, Gretchen. Because Internet, Ch. 04 Typographical Tone of Voice
McColloch, Gretchen. Because Internet, Ch. 05 Emoji and Other Internet Gestures
McLuhan, Marshall, “The Medium is the Message,” p. 17 – 35
McNally, David, Another World Is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism
- “Ch. 2: Globalization: It Isn’t About Free Trade,” pp. 27 – 82
- “Ch. 6: Democracy Against Capitalism,” pp. 267 – 335
Mill, John Stuart. Selections (one pdf): including:
- Utilitarianism, pp. 6 – 25
- On Liberty, pp. 1 – 16, 53 – 71
Nader, Ralph, “GATT, NAFTA, and the Subversion of the Democratic Process,” pp. 92 – 107
Nietzsche, “Good and Bad v. Good and Evil,” from The Genealogy of Morals, pp. 24 – 56
Oliva, Achille, “The Globalization of Art,” 41 – 48
Plato, The Apology, pp. 63 – 97
Plato, excerpts from The Philebus on laughter
Plato, The Symposium, (complete
Pollock, Griselda, “The Female Hero and the Making of a Feminist Canon,” 30 pages
Saper, Craig, “Electronic Media Studies: From Video Art to Artificial Invention,” pp. 114 – 134
Schwarz, Ben. Satirized For Your Consumption, pp. 144 – 156
Solnit, Rebecca. “Introduction: The Annihilation of Time and Space,” from River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West,” pp. 3 – 24
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Identity Politics,” pp. 1 – 15
Stokstad, Marilyn, Art History,
- Selections on Rococo, Neo-Classicism, and Romanticism (as a single PDF)
- Ch. 26, The 18th Century, Only 897-900, 902-907, 912-913, 919-927, 929-934
- Ch. 27, The 19th Century, Only 941-958
Thurber, James. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” pp. 1 – 3
Tricksters (about)
- Ossa, Luisa. “There’s Nothing Underhanded About Liberation: A Reevaluation of the Trickster Figure,” Afro-Hispanic Review, pp. 46 – 51
- Vizenor, Gerald. “Trickster Discourse,” American Indian Review,” pp. 277 – 287
Vine, Richard, New China, New Art
Viola, Bill (about)
- Townsend, Chris, “Call Me Old-Fashioned, But… ” pp. 7 – 23
- Naumaier, Otto, “Space Time Video Viola,” pp. 47 – 70
- Morgan, David, “Spirit and Medium,” pp. 89 – 109
Wagner, Anne, “Performance, Video, and the Rhetoric of Presence,” pp. 59 – 80
Willett, Cynthia. “Ch. 3, Authenticity in the Age of Satire: Ellison, Sartre, Bergson, and Spike Lee’s Bamboozled,” in Irony in the Age of Empire, pp. 63 – 91
Zizek, Slavoj, “Multiculturalism, or the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism”, 28 – 51
Zolten, Jerome J. “Black Comedians: Forging and Ethnic Image,” in Journal of American Culture, pp. 65 – 75
Zubof, Shoshana. Surveillance Capitalism, Ch 01 Home or Exile in the Digital Future
Zubof Shoshana Surveillance 02 August 9th, 2011, Ch 02 Setting the Stage for Surveillance Capitalism
Zubof Shoshana. Surveillance Capitalism, Ch. 18 Coup from Above