Email all work for the course to me at [email protected]Spring 2019
FILM TRAILERS, FILM TITLES
Email all work for the course to me at [email protected]
M W F 2
TUR 2322
W 6-8 ROL 115 (There will be no screenings for this course.)
Office: 4314 Turlington Hall
Office Hours: M W F 10:35-11:15, and by appointment
(Watch films on disc or streaming: UF KANOPY is free)
Computers are not allowed to be used in class. Please turn off your cell phones and computers before class. Take notes with paper and pen or pencil.
Sound Mixing and Sound Editing
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A, and or B, and C Below are Due the Day Before Each M and W Class by 5:00 p.m.: and / or C. Three shots with three film analysis terms Lester Spence, How the 'free market' has devastated black communities | |
It’s time for you to take a You-Turn Please email me only to send me class assignments. Otherwise, please talk to me in person after (not before) class or during office hours. Office: 4314 Turlington Hall Office Phone 352 392-6650 Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:35-11:15, and by appointment. The current version of this website is the binding one, if you are taking this course.
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Columbia Film Language Glossary Criterion: Three Reasons You Call the Shots! Quiz
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Library West now has a 4K Ultra HD DVD player and 28” monitor in Video Viewing Booth F-204. There are 2 audio cables hooked up to the back of the monitor so patrons can plug in headphones.
I'm from a future that does not exist.
My is critical practice? Neither meta, nor method.
Consider everything I say as the contents of a time capusle from long ago that has yet to be opened.
r/LateStageCapitalism community
Netflix's Bright Future Looks A Lot Like Television's Dim Past
How to Hide an Empire”: Daniel Immerwahr on the History of the Greater United States
Why is the CIA a horrible organization run by sociopaths?
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003
5 Corporations Now Dominate Our Privatized Intelligence Industry
Wormwood (dir. Errol Morris, 2018 Netflix)
Why should we not trust the FBI? Or the State department? Or the White House?
Daniel Ellsberg on Chelsea Manning | A Hero’s Hero: The Courage We Need
Daniel Ellsberg Praises Chelsea Manning After She Is Jailed Again
Why should we think that MSM, including the NY Times and WAPO, are nothing but disinformation outlets?
Oliver Stone on Edward Snowden: "America Is Fed Bullshit and We Buy It" (Q&A)
Why the Left Can’t Stand The New York Times
"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."
--Noam Chomsky
How many U.S. regime changes have left the countries we invaded brought them democracy? Zero. How many are far worse off after the CIA supported a military coup or war? Every one of them.
US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on MSNBC's Morning Joe -- Feb. 6, 2019
Did you find the answers?
"No, because they don't exist. That's why the questions are interesting."
— Krzysztof Kiezlowski
Rene Descartes, Part Three of Discourse on the Method
This segment is really worth watching in its entirety: One brave anti-war candidate gets through the gauntlet of four total establishment enemy combatants. Gabbard is incredibly strong, calling out the smearing of her and other leftists as it happens in real time, face to face. Bizarrely, it now appears that a woman from the military who actully thinks rationally about foreign interventions and regime changes would make a better than the militarized civilians now running the country.
US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on MSNBC's Morning Joe -- Feb. 6, 2019
New Episode - Episode 4: New York - Tulsi TV On the Road
Why the Left Can’t Stand The New York Times
Feminist writer Rebecca Solnit on mansplaining and #MeToo
J. P. Stern, "Propaganda as a Perlocutionary Act," Hitler: The Führer and the People, p. 39
Watch films on disc or streaming: UF KANOPY is free.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) - Trailer
"I'm Not Crazy!" Mental Illness on Film (2017)
Media Whitewashing the Blood-Soaked US Military-Industrial Complex January 14, 2019
I know many students read books online rather than in print, so I will make sure we can always get to the page or to the shot we are discussing by having someone, either me or a student, standing near the computer at the front of the class so we can get there. I do not allow any electronic device such as iphones or ipads or laptops, etc. to be open during class. Everyone needs to be in class 100 percent. Learning is not something you can multi-task.
It may take you two to three maybe even four weeks to get the hang of how this course works if you decide to take. I will asking you to write and think and read in ways no other teacher has. I don't want to be confused, however, and merely default to doing what you already know to do. The point of taking this class is to learn some things you don't already know how to do. If you have any questions, please do ask them. I should add that my course websites are kind of like art installations you'll be walking through. I may resemble a curator at times.
Please think of everything I say in class as the contents of a time capsule from long ago that has just now been discovered and opened.
All beginnings are dangerous.--The poet has the choice of either raising feeling from one step to the next and thus eventually increasing it to a very high level--or else attempting a sudden onslaught and pulling the bell-rope with all his might from the beginning: both have their dangers: in the first case, that his audience may flee out of boredom, in the second, out of fear.
--Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human II, "Mixed Opinions and and Maxims," section 163, ed. Gary Handwerk (Stanford UP, 2013), 67.
Apple TV screensavers 2015 (extreme slow-mo)
TV Shows I have watched over the past few years randomly ordered.
MOVIE REVIEW: VICE Underplays the “Evil” of Dick Cheney - Wilkerson and Jay Review the Movie (1/3)
Cheney’s Lies Left Middle East in Flames - Film Review of “Vice” with Wilkerson and Jay (2/2)
The Truth About Israel, Boycotts, and BDS
Taking the floor: 10 facts about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Nicholas Mirzoeff, The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality
Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” Film Theory and Criticism : Introductory Readings. Eds. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. New York: Oxford UP, 1999: 833-44.
Linda Williams, "Power, Pleasure, and Perversion: Sadomasochistic Film Pornography."
Representations, No. 27 (Summer, 1989), pp. 37-65.
Students will co-lead class on Mondays and Wednesdays on the assigned film or reading. I will lead on Fridays which I will lveave open for discussion. Nothing will be assigned on Fridays. Nothing will be due on Thursdays, except for three classes
The due dates for Two discussion questions (DQs) and Big Words (BWs) or three shots are always Sundays and Tuesdays by 5 p.m. Email them to me at
There are also three "trailer assignments," due Thursday, January 10, Thursday, January 17, and Thursday, January 24 and one end title assignment due on Thursday, March 24.
Four papers are due 1/26; 3/2; 3/29; 4/20. I'll go over the papers in class (each one is different).
Note Bene: First Paper Due Saturday, January 26 by 11:59 p.m.
The Loser Moment: From time to time, usually during a two block class, I will take a moment to read you a passage from a work I like or play music for you and talk about it or show you a painting and talk about it. You can play with the lighting. I will have a flashlight so I can read in the dark. Students are welcome to take your own loser moments. If you like the moment, please do a slow clap. But be sure not to join in the clapping. Since it will have been a loser moment, a failed slow clap is the best response.
NOTE BENE: You can find many great films on UF Kanopy and watch them for free. You will need to download a VPN onto your computer and then connect if you want to watch films on Kanopy off-campus. Instructions can be found here: vpn.ufl.edu
All linked readings below will take you to a pdf. All readings that are not linked you will have to find on your own.
Since I know many students read online rather than in print, I will make sure we can always get to the page or to the shot we are discussing by having someone, either me or a student, standing near the computer at the front of the class so we can get there. I do not allow any electronic device such as iphones or ipads or laptops, etc. to be open during class. Everyone needs to be in class 100 percent. Learning is not something you can do well if you multi-task.
It may take you two to three weeks to get the hang of how this course works if you decide to take it. I will asking you to write and think and read in ways no other teacher has. I don't want you to be confused, hwoever, and merely default to doing what you already know to do. The point of taking this class is to learn some things you don't already know how to do. If you have any questions, please do ask them. I should add that my course websites are kind of like art installations you'll be walking through.
At times I may resemble a curator.
"“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
Henry David Thoreau, "Reading" in Walden.
Thedorno Adorno, "The Essay as Form," New German Critique, No. 32 (Spring - Summer, 1984), pp. 151-171
Dana Priest and Qillaim Arkin "A hidden world, growing beyond control" Wasington Post 2010!
William Arkin leaves NBC, 2019
TV Shows I have watched over the past few years randomly ordered.
Spinoza - The Apostle of Reason
Field of Vision - Project X Directed by Laura Poitras and Henrik Moltke Nov 29, 2016
Margaret Kimberley, Editor Of BAP: U.S. Out Of Africa, Shutdown Africom
Chris Hedges: Israel is ‘frightened’ & ‘desperate’
Wilkerson on the Real “Vice” Cheney – (1/4) December 31, 2018
ENG 4113 Section 4396 Ashes of Cinema: Philology, Film Restoration, and Deconstruction (Spring 2011)
ENG 4133 Silent Film Philology Spring 2013
ENG 4133 1C26 Film Philology: ciNOma Fall 2014
Spring 2018 ENG 4133 Sound, Silent Cinema, Musicology
Anne Dufourmantelle, Power of Gentleness : Meditations on the Risk of Living.
Margaret Kimberley, Editor Of BAP: U.S. Out Of Africa, Shutdown Africom
Sander L. Gilman, "Presidential Address 1995: Habent Sua Fata Libelli; Or, Books, Jobs, and the MLA." PMLA Vol. 111, No. 3 (May, 1996), pp. 390-394.
Elizabeth Power, "The Cinematic Art of Nympholepsy: Movie Star Culture as Loser Culture in Nabokov's Lolita," in Criticism Vol 41. no. 1(1999), pp. 101-18.
--Flannery O'Connor
For God's sake, Mr. Storyteller, you ask, where are they going? And I answer: for God's sake, Reader, does any of us know where we're going? Where are you going?
--Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist, 41
Ghostel - Buckley Get Your Gun
The Second Civil War (HB0) 1999
Ebooks with sound effects of pages turning.
With all this, Madam,—and what confounded every thing as much on the other hand, my uncle Toby had that unparalleled modesty of nature I once told you of, and which, by the bye, stood eternal sentry upon his feelings, that you might as soon—But where am I going? these reflections crowd in upon me ten pages at least too soon, and take up that time, which I ought to bestow upon facts.
--Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
Jacques Derrida, "Fichus"
Maurice Blanchot, “Friendship”
David Hume, My Own Life
Giving Up the Ghost: Michel de Montaigne, "Letter to His Father: On the Death of Étienne de la Boétie"
Michel de Montaigne, "That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die" (1580)
Whereby may be seen that nothing is so hard or so uncertaine to be found out as the certaintie of the truth, sithence no man can put any assured confidence concerning the truth of a battel, neither in the knowledge of him that was Generall or commanded over it, nor in the soldiers that fought, of anything that hath hapned amongst them; except after the manner of a strict point of law, the severall witnesses are brought and examined face to face, and that all matters be nicely and thorowly sifted by the objects and trials of the successe of every accident. Verily the knowledge we have of our owne affaires is much more barren and feeble. But this hath sufficiently been handled by Bodin, and agreeing with my conception. Somewhat to aid the weaknesse of my memorie and to assist her great defects; for it hath often been my chance to light upon bookes which I supposed to be new and never to have read, which I had not understanding diligently read and run over many years before, and all bescribled with my notes; I have a while since accustomed my selfe to note at the end of my booke (I meane such as I purpose to read but once) the time I made an end to read it, and to set downe what censure or judgement I gave of it; that so it may at least at another time represent unto my mind the aire and generall idea I had conceived of the Author in reading him. I will here set downe the Copie of some of my annotations, and especially what I noted upon my Guicciardine about ten years since: (For what language soever my books speake unto me I speake unto them in mine owne.) He is a diligent Historiographer and from whom in my conceit a man may as exactly learne the truth of such affaires as passed in his time, as of any other writer whatsoever: and the rather because himselfe hath been an Actor of most part of them and in verie honourable place.
--Michel de Montaigne, "Of Bookes"
Why James Baldwin's 'A Talk To Teachers' Remains Relevant 54 Years Later
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-desegregation-and-resegregation-of-charlottes-schools
Gadaj?ce g?owy/Talking Heads (1980)
SENIORS FOR STUDENTS, Richard Burt, President
Alexandre Kojeve, "Chapter 2 Summary of the First Six Chapters of the Phenomenology of Spirit" in Introduction to the Reading of Hegel
At Berkeley (dir. Frederick Wiseman, 2013)
Philosopher Ray Monk: why I went vegan
‘If we cut out meat and dairy, we would all live longer, healthier, happier lives’
Jeff Bezos’s “Montessori, Inc.” Sets Up the Ed-Tech Takeover of Pre-K
This Is What It’s Like to Be a Teacher in America (2018)
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music
"Teach us to care and not to care"
Larry David Curb Your Enthusiasm (2017) | HBO
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor” (2018)
Look for the Helpers. --Fred Rogers
Songs which begin before they begin
The snare drum. The Letter Boxtops
John McGlaughlin in Bitches Brew
The Who - The Kids Are Alright
David Bowie - some of his musicians talk about various songs
Goldberg Variations Complete (J.S. Bach BWV 988), with score, Kimiko Ishizaka piano
For God's sake, Mr. Storyteller, you ask, where are they going? And I answer: for God's sake, Reader, does any of us know where we're going? Where are you going?
--Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist, 41
With all this, Madam,—and what confounded every thing as much on the other hand, my uncle Toby had that unparalleled modesty of nature I once told you of, and which, by the bye, stood eternal sentry upon his feelings, that you might as soon—But where am I going? these reflections crowd in upon me ten pages at least too soon, and take up that time, which I ought to bestow upon facts.
--Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
"Why Teach What You Already Know?"--Jean-Michel Rabaté
"I want to pay tribute to his memory here and to recall all that I owe to the trust and encouragement he gave me, even when, as he one day told me, he did not see at all where I was going. That was in 1966 during a colloquium in the United States in which we were both taking part. After a few friendly remarks on the paper I had just given, Jean Hippolyte added, “That said, I really don’t see where you are going.” I think I replied to him more or less as follows: “If I clearly saw ahead of time where I was going, I don’t really believe that I would take another step to get there.” Perhaps I then thought that knowing where one is going may no doubt help in orienting one’s thinking, but that it has never made anyone take a single step, quite the opposite in fact. What is the good of going where one knows oneself to be going and where one knows that one is destined to arrive? Recalling this reply today, I am not sure that I really understand it very well, but it surely did not mean that I never see or never know where I am going and that to this this extent, to the extent that I do not know, it I is not certain that I have ever taken any step or said anything at all."
--Jacques Derrida, "Punctuations: The Time of a Thesis," in The Eyes of the University, 115
If Students Are Smart, They’ll Major in What They Love
Missing UF Faculty (mostly from English)
"Leave Your Laptops at the Door to My Classroom"
W.K. Wimsatt, The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry(1954) "When Is Variation Elegant?"
Have You Seen
This ?
Manuscript Art – Taking a closer look
The dolly zoom Vertigo Effect - 7 Examples
On Contact: A New McCarthyism with Ellen Schrecker
Won’t You Be My Neighbor (2018)
Look for the Helpers. --Fred Rogers
Tony Benn - 10 min History Lesson for Neoliberals
Alain Badiou, The True Life
--Colette
Changing the Paradigm 2015 Developmental Trauma Panel | Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Being Right: 38 Ways to Win an Argument
The Billionaire Class is Not Fit to Rule - Paul Jay
The Pathology of the Rich - Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself
C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (1956)
The Jimmy Dore Show Published on Jun 21, 2018
Werner Herzog on the importance of reading (go to 4:05)
The Billionaire Class is Not Fit to Rule - Paul Jay
BRANKO MARCETIC, "The FBI’s Secret War" (2016)
Oblique Perspective in Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors; Jacques Derrida on oblique reading in Passion: An Oblique Offering; Interviewing trauma victims Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
Release Date: Sept. 7 | Warner Bros.
Werner Herzog on the importance of reading (go to 4:05)
Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fall of the Faculty (2011)
Gadaj?ce g?owy/Talking Heads (1980)
Changing the Paradigm 2015 Developmental Trauma Panel | Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
D. T. MAX, Her Way: A pianist of strong opinions.
The CIA’s Kafkaesque Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944)
The CIA's Timeless Tips for "Simple Sabotage"
ANEMONA HART OCOLLIS, "Colleges Spending Millions to Deal With Sexual Misconduct Complaint" MARCH 29, 2016
Richard Burt and Jeffrey Wallen, "Knowing Better: Sex, Cultural Criticism, and the Pedagogical Imperative in the 1990s," Diacritics, "Texts / Contexts," Spring 1999, 29 (1): 72-91.?
The History, Uses, and Abuses of Title IX AAUP
My Title IX Inquisition By Laura Kipnis MAY 29, 2015
MATTHEW Q. CLARIDA, "Law School Profs Condemn New Sexual Harassment Policy"
CRIMSON October 15, 2014
David Bowie's "Cat People (Putting out Fire)" in
Atomic Blonde (2017) versus Inglorious Basterds (2009)
German band Apparat's The Devil's Walk "Goodbye" (2011)
on the soundtrack in the montage at the end of the finale of Breaking Bad S4 E13 (2011)
versus in the opening title sequence of Netflix's Dark (2017)
Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" in the opening title sequence of David Fincher's Girl with a Dragon Tatoo (2014) and in Thor Ragnarok's (2017) prologue.
In some cases, similar composers, like Michael Nyman and Philip Glass, may do similar work, and you may like both of them and prefer on or other, maybe change your mind, and so on.
LET'S STICK IT OUT!
Drawing to Learn
Larry gets Fatwa'ed | Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 9
Dive into the heart of the Roland-Garros atmosphere! Chapter 3: motivation.
Que faire en cas d'explosion nucléaire? Une agence US vous instruit
When we go through libraries, convinced of these princi- ples, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume—of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance—let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning about quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experiential reasoning about matters of fact and existence? No. Then throw it in the fire, for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
--David Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Dive into the heart of the Roland-Garros atmosphere! Chapter 4: joy.
Cyrano de Bergerac / J-P Rappeneau (Gerard Depardieu)
MARK EDMUNDSON Argues Colleges More Training Than Transformation (2013)
Neoliberalese at the corporate university
The destructive character lives from the feeling that life is not worth living but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
--Walter Benjamin, "The Destructive Character," Selected Writings Vol 2 part 2, 542?
Yanis Varoufakis: Is Capitalism Devouring Democracy?
Fear and Loathing in Trump's America
A Visual History of Trump Magazine Covers
President Trump said on Monday that he has the power to pardon himself. June 4, 2018
To Be or Not To Be — "Heil Myself"
As always, these words are extemporary, which doesn’t mean I don’t have a few brief notes here. I extemporized them this morning, because I work a great deal. You shouldn’t think you have to do as much.
--Jacques Lacan, Talking to Brick Walls, p. 3
"You make it up as you go along."
--Haruki Murakami, Absolutely Speaking
Heinrich von Kleist, "On-the-Gradual-Construction-of-Thoughts-During-Speech"
Heinrich von Kleist, "On the Gradual Production of Thoughts Whilst Speaking"
La psychanalyse est un remède contre l'ignorance. Elle est sans effet sur la connerie.
--Jacques Lacan
When Dinosaurs Fought In The Civil War
A Brief History of Capitalism. Yanis Varoufakis Interview
I'm Afraid Of Americans David Bowie
Toni Visconti on producing David Bowie's "Heroes"
LCD Soundsystem - american dream
The Destruction of an Independent Press with Mark Crispin Miller (On Contact, May 2018)
Our Nazi "Gleichschaltung," the top down "streamlining" of all all media in all spheres. John Ausitn uses the German word in relation to philosophy in Sense and Sensibilia.
Shirer, William L. Berlin Diary: the journal of a foreign correspondent, 1934-1941 August 10, 1939 p. 172-73 (the Nazi's 1939 streamlined fake news about Poland = the U.S.'s streamlined fake news 2016 Russia)
Creativity and Reassemblage
(Patti) LaBelle - Lady Marmalade (1975)
Moulin Rouge trailer Baz Luhrmann 2001
Music video by Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink performing Lady Marmalade. (C) 2002
Buggles - Video killed the radio star 1979
Music video by The Killers performing Mr. Brightside. (C) 2004
Jia Tolentino, "Lionel Shriver Puts On a Sombrero" (2016)
Lionel Shriver: Why the term 'populism' is dishonest - Viewsnight
Schopenhauer's metaphysical writing pad.
Sigmund Freud, A Note upon the “Mystic Writing Pad” (1925)
When film franchise titles go in the right and the wrong directions.
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Blockers (2018) and the Sophisticated Vulgarity of Emojis. (See my Spring 2019 course on film trailers.)
Blockers, first ever partial film title with a (deniable) visual pun and sound effect, spelling out the true title, namely, Cock Blockers? (Cock-a-doodle-do? No, it's just a rooster, not a cock crowing.) Alternate title? Block Cock. Actually, the film seems to be about parental vagina blockers. Like parents designed elaborate chastity belts for their daughters to wear to the prom. The inversion of gender roles plays out when partying jocks make the two fathers chug beer up their asses in exchange for help blocking their daughters. The cut down title a metaphor for their symbolic castration? Moms cock block too, btw. The parents might want to watch Carrie to understand loss of virginity involves bloodloss; it's not bloodless. Another alternate title? Block the Cock. (It's just about the rooster. He is too loud.) Note the recurrent line "I'm in," as if taken from a heist or spy film (involving hacking--cracking the code-- as well as cracking the safe combination).
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The Panotti, from Vlyssis Aldrovandi’s book, Monstrorum Historia, 1642.
White Like Me SNL 12/15/84
Racial Bias In St.Louis Revealed Via Hidden Camera - Diane Sawyer PrimeTime 1991
Joseph P. Williams, "Segregation's Legacy Fifty years after the Fair Housing Act was signed, America is nearly as segregated as when President Lyndon Johnson signed the law" April 20, 2018
Matt Taibbi - I Can't Breathe
Sorry to Bother You 2018
Political correctness: a force for good? A Munk Debate May 20, 2018
The Forum: Right to Say: Freedom, Respect, and Campus Speech
Nomi Prins: How Central Bankers Rigged the World
Walter Benn Michaels, "Who gets ownership of pain and victimhood?"
Democracy Lost: A Report on the Fatally Flawed 2016 Democratic Primaries
"Who Speaks for the Negro?" (1965)
Robert Penn Warren, New Dawn: Hiroshima, New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1983
Butt rip jeans (2018)
So Fine (dir. Adrew Bergman, 1981)
Bruno Latour, On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods (Science and Cultural Theory)
The economy of his errors and weaknesses –more a fantastic edifice than the totality of his gifts—is so delicately and precisely organized that all outward confirmation only disrupts it. Well it may, if this man is to be certified as the “pattern of a harmoniously and perfectly formed human type,” if he is to appear—in a term as absurd stylistically as semantically—as a philanthropist, so that anyone listening to his “hardness” with “the ears of a soul” would find the reason for it in compassion. No! This incorruptible, piercing, resolute assurance does not spring from the noble poetic or humane disposition that his followers are so fond of attributing to him. How utterly banal, and at the same time how fundamentally wrong, is their derivation of his hatred from love, when it is obvious how much more elemental are the forces here at work: a humanity that is only an alternation of malice and sophistry and malice, a nature that is the highest school of aversion to mankind and a pity that is alive only when interlaced with vengeance, “Oh, had I only been left the choice / to carve the dog or the butcher, / I should have chosen.” Nothing is more perverse than to try to fashion him after the image of what he loves. Rightly, Kraus the “timeless world-disturber” has been confronted with the “eternal world-improver,” on whom benign glances not infrequently fall.
Walter Benjamin, “Karl Krauss” in Selected Writings, Vol 2, Part 2 1931-1934 ed. Michael Jennings, Harvard UP, pp. 442-43.
You will be receiving, as requested, the proofs of Grete de Francesco’s book on the charlatan. I am quite taken with the unusual theme of the book itself, and with the combination of carefulness and perceptiveness with which the author has approached the material. Unfortunately, it is rather disappointing in other respects. It basically suffers throughout from the unfortunate idea of presenting the charlatan as spiritually akin to the dictators of today, and imagines that criticizing the one is tantamount to scourging the other. The reasoning behind this is politically null and void, and only prevents her account from even approaching the most fundamental and interesting aspects of the figure of the charlatan. I think I am hardly wrong in assuming that even if the publisher who commissioned the book would have been unduly concerned if it had also revealed certain positive features in the phenomenon of the charlatan. Instead, the book is grounded in a kind of gloomy moralizing which no longer permits the appearance of any specific historical or local l color—even if such a thing were remotely intended in the first place. The inadequacy of the entire treatment is most tangible in the chapter on automation. If Ernst Bloch had ever written his Noble Couple, we would certainly have received something more illuminating about the charlatan. –I don’t need to say that the book has done nothing to reduce my sympathy for Grete de Francesco.
WB to TA Letter 86, p. 206
I have read about one-third of the Francesco book. Without wishing to ignore the culture and the industry that have gone into the work, I cannot but share your own view that there really is little question of considering the author for our planned book. Above all on account of the naivety in it its philosophical approach to history, which constantly reduces the figure of the charlatan to the dimensions of ‘the universally human’. And that is precisely why the fashioned network of analogies proves so impotent where Hitler is concerned.
TA to WB Letter 88, p. 211-12
The Power of the Charlatan by Grete de Francesco; translated from the German by Miriam Beard. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1939.
"The Path to Success, in Thirteen Theses"
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2: Part 1 1927–1930 ed. Michael Jennings, Harvard UP, 2005, pp
The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business - RAI with Rana Foroohar
SLAVES TO LOVE:
Let’s Stick It Out
Draw stick figures to teach how people learn—put name of stick figure, then big head—then inside the names of the films really important to her or him)
It’s like a gathering—so then who had Hitchcock in their heads? Some loss in their—because they only have AH’s films in their heads). But how are the memories stored? What is really in their heads? This is a bio-bibliographical model—auteur is basically the proper name—you can’t list all of the others the way software designs do for certain programs.
25 Labor Events and Organizers Who We Should Teach About During Women’s History Month
HAS CAPITALISM FAILED THE WORLD?
'91-Year-Old Woman Fills in $89,000 Artwork She Thought Was Crossword Puzzle'
http://www.minds.com, the free speech-based social network
CIA op Timber Sycamore in Syria
Even Jesus had only so much patience as a teacher--with his best students! What losers. And they didn't even show up for the crucifixion. :(
Burt reads William Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" in Lewes, England, March 2018. Cinematography by Richard Wilson using an iphone 6.
(Watch films on disc or streaming: UF KANOPY is free)
Derrida, Jacques. 2002. Who's Afraid of Philosophy: Right to Philosophy 1 trans. Jan Plug. Stanford Univ. Press,
Derrida,Jacques. 2004. Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2 trans. Jan Plug. Stanford Univ. Press,
Structure, Scaffolding, and the Leap of Faith Indiana Jones
Charles Glass, "Nagmachons,"
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Michel Foucault's reply to George Steiner's review of Foucualt's The Order of Things (George Steiner, “The Mandarin of the Hour—Michel Foucault,” New York Times Book Review February 21, 1971), “Monstrosities in Criticism” Diacritics 1, no.1 (1971) 57-60
George Steiner, “Steiner Responds to Foucault,” Diacritics 1, no. 2 (Winter, 1971), p. 59.
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Consider the difference between "learned outcomes" and "learning outcomes.
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John Ralston Saul: The Collapse of Globalism
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"Leave Your Laptops at the Door to My Classroom"
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"I want to pay tribute to his memory here and to recall all that I owe to the trust and encouragement he gave me, even when, as he one day told me, he did not see at all where I was going. That was in 1966 during a colloquium in the United States in which we were both taking part. After a few friendly remarks on the paper I had just given, Jean Hippolyte added, “That said, I really don’t see where you are going.” I think I replied to him more or less as follows: “If I clearly saw ahead of time where I was going, I don’t really believe that I would take another step to get there.” Perhaps I then thought that knowing where one is going may no doubt help in orienting one’s thinking, but that it has never made anyone take a single step, quite the opposite in fact. What is the good of going where one knows oneself to be going and where one knows that one is destined to arrive? Recalling this reply today, I am not sure that I really understand it very well, but it surely did not mean that I never see or never know where I am going and that to this this extent, to the extent that I do not know, it I is not certain that I have ever taken any step or said anything at all."
--Jacques Derrida,
"Punctuations: The Time of a Thesis," in The Eyes of the University, 115
I could while away the hours, conferring with the flowers, ----ing with the rain.
Day for Night (dir. François Truffaut, 1973)
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ANTICIPATORY LEARNING
from Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus, p. 63
Piano Sonata No. 32 (Beethoven)
William Wordsworth, THE PRELUDE
BOOK TWELFTH
IMAGINATION AND TASTE, HOW IMPAIRED AND RESTORED
There are in our existence spots of time,
That with distinct pre-eminence retain
A renovating virtue, whence--depressed 210
By false opinion and contentious thought,
Or aught of heavier or more deadly weight,
In trivial occupations, and the round
Of ordinary intercourse--our minds
Are nourished and invisibly repaired;
A virtue, by which pleasure is enhanced,
That penetrates, enables us to mount,
When high, more high, and lifts us up when fallen.
I remember well,
That once, while yet my inexperienced hand
Could scarcely hold a bridle, with proud hopes
I mounted, and we journeyed towards the hills:
An ancient servant of my father's house
Was with me, my encourager and guide: 230
We had not travelled long, ere some mischance
Disjoined me from my comrade; and, through fear
Dismounting, down the rough and stony moor
I led my horse, and, stumbling on, at length
Came to a bottom, where in former times
A murderer had been hung in iron chains.
The gibbet-mast had mouldered down, the bones
And iron case were gone; but on the turf,
Hard by, soon after that fell deed was wrought,
Some unknown hand had carved the murderer's name. 240
The monumental letters were inscribed
In times long past; but still, from year to year
By superstition of the neighbourhood,
The grass is cleared away, and to this hour
The characters are fresh and visible:
A casual glance had shown them, and I fled,
Faltering and faint, and ignorant of the road:
Then, reascending the bare common, saw
A naked pool that lay beneath the hills,
The beacon on the summit, and, more near, 250
A girl, who bore a pitcher on her head,
And seemed with difficult steps to force her way
Against the blowing wind.
Claudio Arrau Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32
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Satie Vexations Complete non-stop performance ( 9.41 hours ) by Nicolas Horvath
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Michael J. Glennon "National Security and Double Government" Harvard National Security Journal 1 (2014)
AMANDA TAUB and MAX FISHER, "As Leaks Multiply, Fears of a ‘Deep State’ in America" NY Times FEB. 16, 2017
Reading Not Reading: Text and Paratexts, or the Table of Conents.
MICHEL FOU-TROLL
Turning nothing into something: The TLS Lettters Editor
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The Daze the (Neoliberal) Earth Stood Still:
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I am not careful to justify myself. I own I am
gladdened by seeing the predominance of the sac-
charine principle throughout vegetable nature, and
not less by beholding in morals that unrestrained
inundation of the principle of good into every chink
and hole that selfishness has left open, yea into self-
ishness and sin itself ; so that no evil is pure, nor
hell itself without its extreme satisfactions. But
lest I should mislead any when I have my own
head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader
that I am only an experimenter. Do not set the
least value on what I do, or the least discredit on
what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing
as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts
are to me sacred ; none are profane ; I simply ex-
periment, an endless seeker with no Past at my
back.
The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of life is wonderful; it is by abandonment. The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. "A man," said Oliver Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius, and hence their dangerous attraction for men. For the like reason they ask the aid of wild passions, as in gaming and war, to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, First Series
10. CIRCLES.
Some one said: “The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know. . . . The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living.
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965). The Sacred Wood. 1921.Tradition and the Individual Talent
Satie Vexations Complete non-stop performance ( 9.41 hours ) by Nicolas Horvath
BRANDEN W. JOSEPH, "Biomusic," Grey Room, No. 45, On Brainwashing: Mind Control, Media, and Warfare (Fall 2011), pp. 128-150.
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David Hume, My Own Life
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Whereby may be seen that nothing is so hard or so uncertaine to be found out as the certaintie of the truth, sithence no man can put any assured confidence concerning the truth of a battel, neither in the knowledge of him that was Generall or commanded over it, nor in the soldiers that fought, of anything that hath hapned amongst them; except after the manner of a strict point of law, the severall witnesses are brought and examined face to face, and that all matters be nicely and thorowly sifted by the objects and trials of the successe of every accident. Verily the knowledge we have of our owne affaires is much more barren and feeble. But this hath sufficiently been handled by Bodin, and agreeing with my conception. Somewhat to aid the weaknesse of my memorie and to assist her great defects; for it hath often been my chance to light upon bookes which I supposed to be new and never to have read, which I had not understanding diligently read and run over many years before, and all bescribled with my notes; I have a while since accustomed my selfe to note at the end of my booke (I meane such as I purpose to read but once) the time I made an end to read it, and to set downe what censure or judgement I gave of it; that so it may at least at another time represent unto my mind the aire and generall idea I had conceived of the Author in reading him. I will here set downe the Copie of some of my annotations, and especially what I noted upon my Guicciardine about ten years since: (For what language soever my books speake unto me I speake unto them in mine owne.) He is a diligent Historiographer and from whom in my conceit a man may as exactly learne the truth of such affaires as passed in his time, as of any other writer whatsoever: and the rather because himselfe hath been an Actor of most part of them and in verie honourable place.
--Michel de Montaigne, "Of Bookes"
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I am sorry for the boy or girl, or man or woman, who has never been touched by the spell of this mysterious sensorial life, with its irrationality, if so you like to call it, but its vigilance and its supreme felicity. The holidays of life are its most vitally significant portions, because they are, or at least should be, covered with just this kind of magically irresponsible spell.
And now what is the result of all these considerations and quotations? It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off: neither the whole of truth nor the whole of good is revealed to any single observer, although each observer gains a partial superiority of insight from the peculiar position in which he stands. Even prisons and sick-rooms have their special revelations. It is enough to ask of each of us that he should be faithful to his own opportunities and make the most of his own blessings, without presuming to regulate the rest of the vast field.
--William James, On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings
In this respect, he [Diagoras the atheist] rightly replied, who, when he was shown, on tablets hung up in a temple, those who had given votive offerings so that they might be saved from the perils of shipwreck, and was pressed for an answer whether he nevertheless denied the power of the Gods, asked in his turn ‘And where are those shown who died after they had called on the Gods?’
This is more or less the reason for all superstitions, such as [belief] in astrology, in dreams, in the fates and suchlike, in which men delight; they pay heed to those that come to pass but, on the contrary, when they are false – which happens much the more often – they neglect them and pass them over.
And this evil creeps, persistently and most subtly, into the philosophies and the sciences, in which that [opinion] which is once accepted infects all the rest (even though these are much better established and more powerful) and reduces them to agree with it.
THE NEW ORGANON OR TRUE DIRECTIONS CONCERNING THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE Francis Bacon 1620
(3) Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
rough drafts of history; and antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bacon/francis/b12a/chapter10.html
Yea, if through all the world in finite tale
Be tossed the procreant bodies of one thing,
Whence, then, and where in what mode, by what power,
Shall they to meeting come together there,
In such vast ocean of matter and tumult strange?-
No means they have of joining into one.
But, just as, after mighty shipwrecks piled,
The mighty main is wont to scatter wide
The rowers' banks, the ribs, the yards, the prow,
The masts and swimming oars, so that afar
Along all shores of lands are seen afloat
The carven fragments of the rended poop,
Giving a lesson to mortality
To shun the ambush of the faithless main,
The violence and the guile, and trust it not
At any hour, however much may smile
The crafty enticements of the placid deep:
Exactly thus, if once thou holdest true
That certain seeds are finite in their tale,
The various tides of matter, then, must needs
Scatter them flung throughout the ages all,
So that not ever can they join, as driven
Together into union, nor remain
In union, nor with increment can grow-
But facts in proof are manifest for each:
Things can be both begotten and increase.
On the Nature of Things
By Lucretius
Written 50 B.C.E
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In this cogent jeremiad, which is certain to be controversial, Michaels diagnoses America's love of diversity as one of our greatest problems. Not only does it reinforce ideas of racial essentialism that it claims to repudiate; it obscures the crevasse between rich and poor. Michaels, a scholar of American literature, suggests that the growth of economic inequality over the past few decades is the result of a deeply ingrained and unchallenged class structure. Scrutinizing current events and religion, he argues that our fixation with the "phantasm" of race promotes identity over ideology, and he rejects the idea that meritocracy prevails in America's elite universities. A believer in the power of progressive politics, he calls for a debate in which class, rather than identity, would be at the fore.
"You can be black and upper middle class, you can be gay and upper class, you can be transsexual and upper class, you can be a woman and be upper middle class, you can be an immigrant and upper class, but you can't be working class and upper middle class. The University is (or was) an upper middle class institution and its culture and habitus (if you will) cannot tolerate working class culture: working class culture is what the University keeps out and what upwardly mobile students want to shed. As Walter Michaels says, they want to stop being working class. They don't want to do dangerous jobs, be poorly paid, have bad taste. . . . "
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A science of the signifier (even if still in process of development), that is, has taken its place in the work of the period and its purpose is less the analysis of the sign than its dislocation. With regard to myth, and though this is a work that is yet to be carried through, the new semiology - or the new mythology - can no longer, will no longer be able to, separate so easily the signifier from the signified, the ideological from the phraseological. It is not that the distinction is false or without its use but rather that it too has become in some sort mythical: any student can and does denounce the bourgeois or petit-bourgeois character of such and such a form (of life, of thought, of consumption). In other words, a mythological doxa has been created: denunciation, demystification (or demythification), has itself become discourse, stock of phrases, catechistic declaration; in the face of which, the science of the signifier can only shift its place and stop (provisionally) further on - no longer at the (analytic) dissociation of the sign but at its very hesitation: it is no longer the myths which need to be unmasked (the doxa now takes care of that), it is the sign itself which must be shaken; the problem is not to reveal the (latent) meaning of an utterance, of a trait, of a narrative, but to fissure the very representation of meaning, is not to change or purify the symbols but to challenge the symbolic itself.
ROLAND BARTHES, "Change the Object Itself Mythology today," Image Music Text Essays selected and translated by Stephen Heath, pp. 165 -70.
There is too much here to try to unravel. But here are some of the threads: The words “inadvertently” and “automatically,” however recondite, are ordinary; there are ordinary contexts (nontechnical, nonpolitical, nonphilosophical contexts) which are normative for their use. It may be that half the speakers of English do not know (or cannot say, which is not the same) what these contexts are. Some native speakers may even use them interchangeably. Suppose the baker is able to convince us that he does. Should we then say: “So the professor has no right to say how ‘we use’ ‘inadvertently,’ or to say that when we use the one word we say something different from what we say when we use the other”? Before accepting that conclusion, I should hope that the following consideration would be taken seriously: When “inadvertently” and “automatically” seem to be used indifferently in recounting what someone did, this may not at all show that they are being used synonymously, but only that what each of them says is separately true of the person’s action. The decanter is broken and you did it. You may say (and it may be important to consider that you are already embarrassed and flustered) either: “I did it inadvertently’’ or “I did it automatically.” Are you saying the same thing? Well, you automatically grabbed the cigarette which had fallen on the table, and inadvertently knocked over the decanter. Naming actions is a sensitive occupation. It is easy to overlook the distinction because the two adverbs often go together in describing actions in which a sudden movement results in some mishap. Suppose the baker does not accept this explanation, but replies: “I use ‘automatically’ and ‘inadvertently’ in exactly the same way. I could just as well have said: ‘I grabbed the cigarette inadvertently and knocked over the decanter automatically.’” Don’t we feel the temptation to reply: “You may say this, but you can’t say it and describe the same situation; you can’t mean what you would mean if you said the other”? But suppose the baker insists he can? Will we then be prepared to say: “Well you can’t say the one and mean what I mean by the other”? Great care would be needed in claiming this, for it may look like I am saying, “I know what I mean and I say they are different.” But why is the baker not entitled to this argument? What I must not say is: “I know what words mean in my language.” Here the argument would have pushed me to madness. It may turn out (depending upon just what the dialogue has been and where it was stopped) that we should say to the baker: “If you cooked the way you talk, you would forgo special implements for different jobs, and peel, core, scrape, slice, carve, chop, and saw, all with one knife. The distinction is there, in the language (as implements are there to be had), and you just impoverish what you say by neglecting it. And there is something you aren’t noticing about the world.”
--Stanley Cavell, "Must-We-Mean-What-We-Say?"
Austin, John. Philosophical Papers 2ed
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"My conception of this book . . . places contradictory demands on your capacities. It asks you to read both very fast and very slow . . . Wittgenstein, in Philosophical Investigations, declare it to be “of the essence of our investigation that we do not seek to learn anything new by it. We want to understand something that is already in plain view. For this is what we seem in some sense not to understand” (S89). This formulation captures the familiar fact that philosophers seem perpetually to be going back over something, something most sane people would feel had already been discussed to death. A more familiar formulation is to say that philosophy does not progress. This depends on who is doing the measuring. When I say that in the humanities more generally you have to be prepared to read fast, the idea is that you have to make yourself not so much go back over a text as go on from it. What I call slow reading is meant not so much to recommend a pace of reading as to propose a mode of philosophical attention in which are prepared to be taken by surprise, stopped, thrown back, as it were, on the text. You respond essentially oppositely to the same fact discovered in philosophy, namely, that a text worth reading carefully, or perpetually is inexhaustible. You always leave it prematurely. And a reason for leaving the text is that the next text may be more apt to illuminate it than another look at the same text. What I try to do in my work is to motivate both gestures of progress, both states of mind, going back and going on."
--Stanley Cavell, “Introduction: In Place of a Classroom” in Cities of Words, Harvard UP, 2004, 1-18; to pp. 14-15
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La Bible de Gutenberg est dans Gallica : acte 1 Publié par Nathalie Coilly le 18 janvier 2017 dans Collections
Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia Urn Burial; or, a discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk
Upgrade your jail cell - for a price
Lionel Shriver's full speech: 'I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad'
For knowledge sources based on analysis of economic and social class that are left of “lead with our values,” “inclusive,” “pro-transparency,” “pro-diversity” war-mongering, corporate Democrats (Obama and HRC) and their establishment processed news apparatus (NY Times, WAPO, MSNBC, and so on), you start by going to these people and outlets, among others. You can begin to find out what’s been happening in the U.S. over the past two decades and longer. Follow the links.
Lawrence Douglas, Contributor to the Guardian
David Runciman: From Tocqueville to Trump, looking back at 2016
Goldberg Variations Complete (J.S. Bach BWV 988), with score, Kimiko Ishizaka piano
Beethoven, Große Fuge (complete, Great Fugue), op. 133, string quartet (animated score)
Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ
Austin, John - Philosophical Papers 2ed - Philosophy of Language
Stanley Cavell, "Must-we-mean-what-we-say?"
Crackling Fireplace with Thunder, Rain and Howling Wind Sounds
Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities
SEVEN DEVELOPMENTS SINCE 1980
David Runciman: From Tocqueville to Trump, looking back at 2016
RetroVision Theater Presents A Matter of Life and Death
https://archive.org/details/Lbines-RetroVisionTheaterPresentsAMatterOfLifeAndDeath502
(Watch films on disc or streaming: UF KANOPY is free)
BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Podcasts
How Guantánamo Diary Escaped the Black Hole
The Birth Control Handbook: The Underground Student Publication That Let Women Take Control of Their Bodies (1968)
Universal Conscription in the U.S.
Nouvelle vidéo démonstration de sécurité Air France / New Air France safety demonstration video
Air France - Making of film France is in the air
Lugwig Wittgenstein, Rabbit Duck Philosophical Investigations
Agnotology: Culturally Constructed Ignorance Wins the Day
By Barry Ritholtz
http://bv.ms/28YUuaw
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/06/the-unendurable-horrors-of-leadership-camp
"The company eagerly cultivates an academic aura, and the facility is
referred to as its “campus.” The campus bookstore sells dozens of
business books, of the kind ubiquitous in airport newsstands. Typical
selections included The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle:
How to Become a Servant Leader (featuring a jacket blurb from the
Senior Vice President of Operations for Chik-fil-a) and Leading with
Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit. Alas, they did not have my
favorite managerial tome of all time, If Harry Potter Ran General
Electric: Leadership Wisdom from the World Of Wizards, which is a
genuine, honest-to-God book that you can look up and purchase."
We must instead put ourselves to the test: whether now and in the future we will read the texts and words of the genuine philosophers in a different way than we have previously; placing higher demands on ourselves, with an enduring will to question, and with a presentiment that there is something knowable before and beyond all science; we have to put to the test whether we have learnt to read. If we can affirm that we want to read in a different way and more meditatively, then we have done enough for the moment.
Heidegger, Martin
Interpretation of Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation
Haase, Ullrich
Sinclair, Mark
Unzeitgemäss ist auch diese Betrachtung, weil ich etwas, worauf die Zeit mit Recht stolz ist, ihre historische Bildung, hier einmal als Schaden, Gebreste und Mangel der Zeit zu verstehen versuche, weil ich sogar glaube, dass wir Alle an einem verzehrenden historischen Fieber leiden und mindestens erkennen sollten, dass wir daran leiden. Wenn aber Goethe mit gutem Rechte gesagt hat, dass wir mit unseren Tugenden zugleich auch unsere Fehler anbauen, und wenn, wie Jedermann weiss, eine hypertrophische Tugend - wie sie mir der historische Sinn unserer Zeit zu sein scheint - so gut zum Verderben eines Volkes werden kann wie ein hypertrophisches Laster: so mag man mich nur einmal gewähren lassen. Auch soll zu meiner Entlastung nicht verschwiegen werden, dass ich die Erfahrungen, die mir jene quälenden Empfindungen erregten, meistens aus mir selbst und nur zur Vergleichung aus Anderen entnommen habe, und dass ich nur sofern ich Zögling älterer Zeiten, zumal der griechischen bin, über mich als ein Kind dieser jetzigen Zeit zu so unzeitgemässen Erfahrungen komme. So viel muss ich mir aber selbst von Berufs wegen als classischer Philologe zugestehen dürfen: denn ich wüsste nicht, was die classische Philologie in unserer Zeit für einen Sinn hätte, wenn nicht den, in ihr unzeitgemäss - das heisst gegen die Zeit und dadurch auf die Zeit und hoffentlich zu Gunsten einer kommenden Zeit - zu wirken.
http://www.magister.msk.ru/library/babilon/deutsche/nieMary Russo, The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess and Modernity (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67vUWVwKRYs
Sigmund Freud,"The Taboo on Virginity"
Laura Kipnis, "Stupid Sex/Higher Education"
Tomorrow's Professor https://tomprof.stanford.edu/posting/1502
Lip synching and music videos
Lorde https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nlcIKh6sBtc
Bryan Ferry
George Michaels
Tei Shi - "Bassically" (Official Music Video)
Structure, Scaffolding, and the Leap of Faith Indiana Jones
Charles Glass, "Nagmachons,"
Times Literary Supplement | 5th April 2016
George Steiner, “Steiner Responds to Foucault,” Diacritics 1, no. 2 (Winter, 1971), p. 59.
RetroVision Theater Presents A Matter of Life and Death
https://archive.org/details/Lbines-RetroVisionTheaterPresentsAMatterOfLifeAndDeath502
(Watch films on disc or streaming: UF KANOPY is free)
BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Podcasts
Tomorrow's Professor https://tomprof.stanford.edu/posting/1502
You Already Know how to Read Film (Genre--you know what to expect) Example: Hostel (2005)
Performing Race:
Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture
Jacques Derrida, "Plato's Pharmacy"
Dickens, Charles. 1852. "A Ragged School," Harper's Magazine
"Historical, in fact philological, consider- ations have slowly but surely taken the place of profound explorations of eternal problems. The question becomes: What did this or that phi- losopher think or not think? And is this or that text rightly ascribed to him or not? And even: Is this variant of a classical text preferable to that other? Students in university seminars today are encouraged to occupy themselves with such emasculated inquiries. As a result, of course, philosophy itself is banished from the university altogether."
Nietzsche, Fredrich. 1872 anti-education Harper's Magazine
Friedrich Nietzsche,1872. ANTI-EDUCATION introduction and annotation by Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon, translated from the German by Damion Searls
Heidegger, Martin, 1933. "The Self-Assertion of the German University and The Rectorate 1933/34: Facts and Thoughts," Review of Metaphysics 38 (March 1985): 467-502.
Auerbach, Eric. 1943. Epilogue to Mimesis: The Represenation of Reality in Western Literature
Curtius, E. R. 1947. Die auslandiche wissenschaftliche Literatur der Kriegs- und Nachkriegsjahre ist mir bis auf verschwindende Ausnahmen nicht zuganglich gewesen. Auch die Bonner Universitatebibliothek ist seit 1944 in folge eines Bombenangriffs teils unbenuntzbar, teils verbrannt. Ich habe daher manches Zitat nicht meher vergleichen, manche Quelle nicht mehr einsehen konnen. Aber wenn die literature 'das fragment der Fragmente" ist (Goethe), muss ein Versuch wie der vorleigende erst recht den Charackter des Fragmentarishcen tragen.
During the war and postwar years, I lost sight of foreign literary criticism after it vanished and was thus inaccessible to me. Also, as a consequence of an air raid in 1944, parts of the Bonn University Library were unusable or burnt. I could no longer check various citations or consult many sources. But if literature is "the fragment of fragments" (Goethe), an attempt like this one in particular must exhibit a fragmentary character.] — "Vorwort," in Europaisches Literatur und Lateinische Mittelater, (my translation; not translated in the English edition of 195
Curtius, E. R. 1953. I have tried to show that humanistic tradition is from time to time attacked by philosophy. It may suffer a serious setback from these aggressions. Many signs seem to point to the fact that we are faced once more with an incursion of philosophers, existentialists... "Appendix: The Medieval Bases of Western Thought," European Literature in the Latin Middle Ages, 592.
De Man, Paul. 1983. As a control discipline . . . philology represents a store of established knowledge; to seek to supersede it . . . is without merit. "Heidegger's Exegeses of Hölderlin," Blindness and Insight, 263-4.
Readings, BiIl. 1997. The University in Ruins. Harvard University Press.
Derrida, Jacques. 2001. "The University Without Condition," originally delivered as a Presidential Lecture at Stanford University in 1998. Its title was "The Future of the Profession or the University Without Condition (Thanks to the 'Humanities,' What Could Take Place Tomorrow)." This version can be found in Jacques Derrida and the Humanities: A Critical Reader, ed. Tom Cohen (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001), 24-57. A slightly altered version, recast as an essay, appeared as "The University Without Condition" in Jacques Derrida, Without Alibi, trans. Peggy Kamuf (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2002), 202-37. The French original is L'université sans condition (Paris: Galilée, 2001).
Derrida, Jacques. 2002. Who's Afraid of Philosophy: Right to Philosophy 1 trans. Jan Plug. Stanford Univ. Press,
Derrida,Jacques. 2004. Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2 trans. Jan Plug. Stanford Univ. Press,
When do you have to go outside the text in order to understand it? Philology (history through etymology)
Philology as entry into history and culture: Life / Sex Life / End of Life = life, sex, and death=civilization
When do you have to go outside the text in order to understand it? Philology (history through etymology)
Genetic Fallacy?
When and under what conditions does knowing something about a writer's biography or the time he or she was writing make a difference to your reading of what he or she wrote?
Jacques Derrida, "Signature Event Context"
One fact that has to be assimilated by both Labour and the Democrats is this: when Bill and Hillary arrived in Washington in 1992 they had little money. Now, despite remaining notionally in public service throughout, they are worth many millions of dollars. Tony and Cherie Blair were not obscenely wealthy when they arrived in power in 1997. Today they are worth more than $75 million. Consider the working-class voters whom the Clintons or the Blairs exhorted to vote for them in the 1990s: they are probably worse off now than they were then. In effect the Clintons and Blairs surfed on their grievances and inequities, making themselves rich and leaving their voters in the dust. This hasn’t gone unnoticed, which is one reason the old politics is no longer working.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2016/11/14/rw-johnson/trump-some-numbers
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n23/david-runciman/is-this-how-democracy-ends
Reading is a vice which can replace all other vices or temporarily take their place in more intensely helping people live, it is an aberration a consuming passion. No, I don’t take any drugs, I take books, of course I have certain preferences, many books don’t suit me at all, some I take only in the morning, others at night, there are books I don’t ever let go, I drag them around with me in the apartment, carrying them from the living room into the kitchen, I read them in the hall standing up, I don’t use a bookmark, I don’t move my lips while reading, early on I learned to read very well, I don’t remember the method, but you ought to look into it. They must have used an excellent method in our provincial elementary schools, at least back when I learned to read.
--Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina: A Novel, trans. Philip Boehm (Teaneck, NJ: Holmes & Meier, 1990), 57-58.
Jacques Derrida, "Eating Well"
Jacques Derrida Interview on writing as food or drugs
STEAM (not STEM) "A" stands for "Arts," as in Liberal Arts
Farhenheit 451 paratext
Juan Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote"
Carlo Ginzburg, Clues
Martin Scorcese on pan and scan versus letterboxing
Warner Brothers high def website; Toshiba's "dead" website The Look and Sound of Perfect HD-DVD website (YouTube trailer)
Carlo Ginzburg, Clues
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of its Reproducibility"
Jacques Derrida in Ghost Dance
Avital Ronell on the examined life
Sigmund Freud, "Dreams and Telepathy"
Sigmund Freud, "Psycho-analysis and Telepathy"
Sigmund Freud, "Mourning and Melancholia"
Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle standard edition
Jacques Derrida on invention and illegality
Jacques Derrida in Ghost Dance
Avital Ronell on the examined life
Friedrich Schlegel, "On Incomprehensibility"
The Idiocy of Identity Politics
Sheldon Pollock, "Future Philology? The Fate of a Soft Science in a Hard World"
"How DNA Changed the World of Forensics" NY Times, May 18, 2014
Carlo Ginzburg, “Clues: Morelli, Freud, and Sherlock Holmes,” in History Workshop, No. 9 (Spring, 1980), pp. 5-36.
Paolo Cherchi Usai, David Alexander Horwath, Michael Loebenstein, ed. Film Curatorship: Museums, Curatorship and the Moving Image (chapter three, pp.107-29)
"How DNA Changed the World of Forensics" NY Times, May 18, 2014
Optional Reading: D.A. Greetham, "Textual Forensics"; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Case of Identity" (1899) and "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" (1893); Sigmund Freud, "The Moses of Michelangelo" (1914) Standard Edition, 13: 209-238. Digital "Exploded Manuscript" of Freud's essay.
What's it's like when I wake up in the morning
What my life is like, only backwards
