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Introduction
to Cultural
Studies

English 383

Sandy Baldwin

Tuesday, Thursday 1000-1115
111 Clark Hall

Department of English
359 Stansbury Hall
293-3107x452
Office Hours: TR 1130-1300

Required Texts

Grading

John Berger, Ways of Seeing
Thomas Y. Levin, Ursula Frohne, Peter, Weibel, Eds., CTRL [SPACE] [CTSP]
Juliet B. Schor and Douglas B. Holt, Eds., The Consumer Society Reader [CSR]
Electronic Reserves [ER] Name=Baldwin, Password=737

Recommended:
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
Roland Barthes, Mythologies
Friedrich Kittler, Film, Gramophone, Typewriter

Attendence, Participation 10%
Group Presentation 10%
Weekly TV Posting to MIX, starting 8/28 15%
2-3 Page Vision Analysis, due 9/23 15%
2-3 Page Object Analysis due 10/21 15%
2-3 Page Space Analysis, due 11/11 15%
5-6 Page Final Paper, due 12/9 20%

8.19.2003

8.21.2003

Introduction

Truth in Advertising (smoking)
Benetton
AdBusters

Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave" [ER]
Marx and Engels, The German Ideology [ER]

8.26.2003

8.28.2003

9.2.2003

9.4.2003

Three responses to 9/11

Baudrillard, "The Spirit of Terrorism"
Chomsky, "The New War Against Terror"
Zizek, "Welcome to the Desert of the Real"

Summarize and contrast two of the essays in at least 250 words. Bring your writing to class.

Berger, Ways of Seeing (Chapter 1)

Color images from Berger

Berger, Ways of Seeing (Chapters 2 & 3)

Compare The Guerilla Girls

Berger, Ways of Seeing (Chapters 4 & 5)

9.9.2003

9.11.2003

9.16.2003

9.18.2003

Berger, Ways of Seeing (Chapters 6 & 7)

Hall, "The Television Discourse: Encoding and Decoding" [ER]

Adorno and Horkheimer, "The Culture Industry" [CSR]

Friedan, "The Sexual Sell" [CSR]
Ewan, "...Images Without Bottom..." [CSR]

9.23.2003

9.25.2003

9.30.2003

10.2.2003

Goldman and Papson, "Advertising in the Age of Accelerated Meaning" [CSR]
Bordo, "Hunger as Ideology" [CSR]

Essay 1 Due

Hebdige, "Object as Image: The Italian Motor Scooter" [CSR]

O'Guinn, "Touching Greatness" [CSR]
Radaway, "The Act of Reading the Romance" [CSR]

DuCille, "Toy Theory: Black Barbie and the Deep Play of Difference" [CSR]

10.7.2003

10.9.2003

10.14.2003

10.16.2003

hooks, "Eating the Other" [CSR]
Gladwell, "The Coolhunt" [CSR]

Fiske, "Shopping for Pleasure" [CSR]
Lasn, "Culture Jamming" [CSR]

Smart Houses
Kitchen of the Future
MIT Media Lab’s "Counter Intelligence"
"If You Can’t Stand the Coding Stay out of the Kitchen"
"The Pillow"

Food Advertisements

10.21.2003

10.23.2003

10.28.2003

10.30.2003

Schmidt-Burkhadt, "The All-Seer" [CTSP]
Katti, "'Systematically' Observing Surveillance" [CTSP]
Projects pages 64-92 [CTSP]

No class!

Foucault, "The Eye of Power" [CTSP]
Virilio, "The Visual Crash" [CTSP]
Projects pages 114-147

Druckery, "Secreted Agents, Security Leaks, Immune Systems, Spore Wars..." [CTSP]
Projects pages 178-203 [CTSP]

11.4.2003

11.6.2003

11.11.2003

11.13.2003

Weibel, "Pleasure and the Panoptic Principle" [CTSP]
Zizek, "Big Brother" [CTSP]

Burgin, "Jenni's Room" [CTSP]
Projects pages 278-313

Deleuze, "Postscript on Control Societies" [CTSP]
Projects pages 346-379 [CTSP]

Manovich, "Modern Surveillance Machines" [CTSP]
Projects pages 402-439

11.18.2003

11.20.2003

12.02.2003

12.04.2003

Graham, "An American Family" [CTSP]
Erst, "Beyond the Rhetoric of Panopticism" [CTSP]
Baudrillard, "Telemorphosis" [CTSP]
Projects pages 486-527

IBM offers surveillance for Universities

Mann, "'Reflectionism' and 'Diffusionism'" [CTSP]
Holert, "The Politics of 'Outside'" [CTSP]
Projects pages 594-629

No class Thanksgiving week!

Review and workshop

Review and workshop

Updated 11/19/03