Email all work for the course to me richardburtfilm@gmail.com

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No cell phones, ipads, or laptops in use during class.

Spring 2022

Introduction to Japanese Cinema

ENG 4135

Section 12HA

Class #12937

T 2-3 (8:30 AM - 10:25 AM)

R 3 (9:35 AM - 10:25 AM)

Screenings Period 9 - 11 (4:05 PM - 7:05 PM) 

ROL0115

Attendance at screenings is not required. You must watch the films on your own if you don't attend the screenings.

TUR 2334

Office: 4314 Turlington Hall 

Office Hours: Tu 11:35-1:15, and by appointment.

Email all work for the course to me richardburtfilm@gmail.com

We are living in exceptionally stupid times.

I don't do trigger warnings.

If you are offended or disturbed by nudity, sex scenes, graphic violence, etc., in films, I strongly advise you not to take this course. You are not required to take it. But if you do take this course, you are required to watch all assigned films, including one widely considered to be among the greatest Japanese films of all time,  In the Realms of the Senses, a film that has also been described by some critics as a "pornographic art" film. All of the assigned films may be found on the Class Schedule page.

You have been warned.

If you have a question or a problem please contact me in class or by email at [email protected]. (I am the manager.)

ANY AUDIO RECORDING OR VIDEO RECORDING OR PHOTOGRAPHS OF CLASS MEETINGS of Introduction to Japanese Cinema ENG 4135 Section 12HA TAUGHT BY RICHARD BURT OR OF DISCUSSIONS IN OR OUTSIDE OF OFFICE HOURS WITH RICHARD BURT IS STRICTLY FOR THE USE OF THE STUDENTS IN THIS CLASS. ANY SUCH AUDIO RECORDING OR VIDEO RECORDING OR PHOTOGRAPHS MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED OR PUBLISHED WITHOUT THE EXPLICIT WRITTEN PERMISSION OF RICHARD BURT.

Please do not ask me to write a letter of recommendation for you to get a Ph.D. in English.

Our evaluation can be linked
only to a practice, and this practice is that of writing. On the
one hand, there is what it is possible to write, and on the other,
what it is no longer possible to write: what is within the practice
of the writer and what has left it: which texts would I
consent to write (to re-write), to desire, to put forth as a force
in this world of mine? What evaluation finds is precisely this
value: what can be written (rewritten) today: the writerly.
Why is the writerly our value? Because the goal of literary
work (of literature as work) is to make the reader no longer
a consumer, but a producer of the text. Our literature is characterized
by the pitiless divorce which the literary institution
maintains between the producer of the text and its user, between
its owner and its customer, between its author and its
reader. This reader is thereby plunged into a kind of idleness
-he is intransitive; he is, in short, serious: instead of functioning
himself, instead of gaining access to the magic of the signifier,
to the pleasure of writing, he is left with no more than
the poor freedom either to accept or reject the text: reading
is nothing more than a referendum. Opposite the writerly text,
then, is its countervalue, its negative, reactive value: what can
be read, but not written: the readerly). We call any readerly
text a classic text.
--Roland Barthes, S / Z

Unlocking the Secrets of Blue Notes

Sigmund Freud, Five Lectures On Psycho-Analysis

Some people like answers more than they do questions. I call that Q & A Criticism. Here is an example from Franco Moretti's book The Bourgeois:
"And one wonders: Why these scenes of almost mythical brutality . . . ? Why does Gesualdo risk his
life like that? He does it, because he is terrified that his wealth may disappear, a fear that is always with him . . . ."

I prefer to hear someone ask one new question that leads to more questions than to hear 1,000 plus new answers to an old question. I call this this kind of criticism Q & Q Questioning. For an example, see the last paragraph of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time.

Barbican's Rain Room: it's raining, but you won't get wet

Werner Hamacher, "Remarks on Complaint," in On the Brink

Colin Marshall, "Music Meets Writing: On Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa."

Basic Terms of Music (including scale, melody, harmony, time signature, rythm, downbeat, fugue, among others)

Colin Marshall, "Music Meets Writing: On Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa."

--David Hume

2012--the transition from analog broadcasting to digital; the end of the cathode ray television set.

Cultural Stagnation

Kenneth Goldsmith, It’s Not Plagiarism. In the Digital Age, It’s ‘Repurposing.’SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Mark Fisher : The Slow Cancellation Of The Future (2014)

What could never be shown in a classroom, recorded by satirist Jonathan Pye in 2018, and not because of the profanity:

Oppression Obsession Jun 29, 2018 (This website does not endore nor condemn linked articles or videos.)

2014 CineNOma?

Small adjustments to the same versus something different, new, or renewed

Can you hear it? An ear for music history and the end of medium specificity

Sampling '80s synth pop this century

Modern Fears (Pilotpriest Come True Version) (Original Motion Picture Sound) 2021

sounds like 

the CHROMATICS PLAYING "SATURDAY" at the end of an episode of David Lynch's Twin Peaks, the Return (2018).

See also the

 CHROMATICS' "SHADOW" (Official Video)

80s synth pop

80s synth pop

Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch and "Laura's Theme" in "Twin Peaks"

Pet Shop Boys
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark

Drive (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011) —with 80s Miami Vice pink opening titles

Chromatics - Tick Of The Clock

Electric Youth - A Real Hero

1980s --"postmodernism" stockpiling of images; last decade of high fashion. "Pastiche" versus "parody" Frederic Jameson

haute couture

recycling Art Decco by Madonna (Vogue, Horst P. Horst / Horst corset

Express Yourself) 

Metropolis (1927) - (1984) Giorgio Moroder

30's fasions Bryan Ferry (Slave to Love). 

Periodization of fashion history

Roxy Music - Avalon (Official Video)

The Gong Show (1978)

Survival Kit For the Anguished: A series of podcasts by Avital Ronell

Ir-Responsible Reading 

--Martin Heidegger, "The Thing"

Martin Heidegger on the hermeneutic circle, writing in hermeneutic circles.

Maurice Blanchot on the vicious circle, writing in vicious circles. "Noli me legere"

the spiral

Gould Gould: Mozart in one minute

Johnny Thunders, "You can't put your arms around a memory" 1978

Pavement, "Silence Kid" 1994

U.S. Propaganda in one minute

Why Should You Be for Free Speech? 

Mighty Ira: Ira Glasser, Free Speech and the ACLU Tmestamp31:00 on

Mighty Ira Documentary Trailer

Essential Viewing: Russell Brand On Trump and Free Speech

If you’re mildly conservative on Twitter, you’re Hitler | Ricky Gervais 

The Free Speech Movement

2020-12-16/fifty-years-of-tax-cuts-for-rich-didn-t-trickle-down-study-says

"Music is the space between the notes." 

--Claude Debussy or Miles Davis

Guy J. Williams, "Harkness Learning: Principles of a Radical American Pedagogy"

Harkness table

Nonsite.org

The Second Civil War (dir. Joe Dante, 1997)

2001 A Space Odyssey 4K 

Wall Street is diversity-inclusion-belonging

https://www.nasdaq.com

NASDAQ

"Happiness has no story." 

--Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Acheiropoieta

Lauren Berlant, "Introduction to Cruel Optimism"

DEPARTMENTAL EMAIL SIGNATURES (UF's "Brand Center")

On Teaching

"You make it up as you go along."

Seiji Ozawa,‎ Absolutely on Music: Conversations (2016), pp. 67-70; 98-101; 233-238; 285-322.

UF Policies on Student Conduct and Resources (UF requires faculty to post these on their syllabi)::

Information on current University-wide grading policies can be found at:https://catalog.ufl.edu/ugrad/current/regulations/info/grades.aspx. 

Requirements for class attendance and make-up exams, assignments, and other work in this course are consistent with university policies that can be found at: https://catalog.ufl.edu/ugrad/current/regulations/info/attendance.aspx. 

UF students are bound by The Honor Pledge which states, “We, the members of the University of Florida community, pledge to hold ourselves and our peers to the highest standards of honor and integrity by abiding by the Honor Code. On all work submitted for credit by students at the University of Florida, the following pledge is either required or implied: “On my honor, I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid in doing this assignment.” The Honor Code (http://www.dso.ufl.edu/sccr/process/student-conduct-honor- code/) specifies a number of behaviors that are in violation of this code and the possible sanctions. In adopting this Honor Code, the students of the University of Florida recognize that academic honesty and integrity are fundamental values of the University community. Any individual who becomes aware of a violation of the Honor Code is bound by honor to take corrective action. A student-run Honor Court and faculty support are crucial to the success of the Honor Code. The quality of a University of Florida education is dependent upon community acceptance and enforcement of the Honor Code. 

An academic honesty offense is defined as the act of lying, cheating, or stealing academic information so that one gains academic advantage. As a University of Florida student, one is expected to neither commit nor assist another in committing an academic honesty violation. Additionally, it is the student's duty to report observed academic honesty violations. Violations of the Honor Code and academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. Specifically, instructors will rigorously pursue incidents of plagiarism of any type or incidents of referring to any unauthorized material for any class requirement. Before submitting any work for this class, please read the policies about academic honesty at www.dso.ufl.edu/judicial, and ask the instructor to clarify any expectations you do not understand. 

Students with disabilities requesting accommodations should first register with the Disability Resource Center (352-392-8565, www.dso.ufl.edu/drc/) by providing appropriate documentation. Once registered, students will receive an accommodation letter which must be presented to the instructor when requesting accommodation. Students with disabilities should follow this procedure as early as possible in the semester. 

Students are expected to provide professional and respectful feedback on the quality of instruction in this course by completing course evaluations online via GatorEvals. Guidance on how to give feedback in a professional and respectful manner is available at https://gatorevals.aa.ufl.edu/students/. Students will be notified when the evaluation period opens and can complete evaluations through the email they receive from GatorEvals, in their Canvas course menu under GatorEvals, or via https://ufl.bluera.com/ufl/. Summaries of course evaluation results are available to students at https://gatorevals.aa.ufl.edu/public-results/. 

University support services are available to students who are experiencing significant distress and/or personal emergencies. As appropriate please contact:

Health and Wellness 

U Matter, We Care: If you or a friend is in distress, please contact [email protected], 352 392-1575, or visit the U Matter, We Care website so that a team member can reach out to the student in distress.

Counseling and Wellness Center: Visit the Counseling and Wellness Center website or call 352-392-1575 for information on crisis and non-crisis services.

Student Health Care Center: Call 352-392-1161 for 24/7 information to help you find the care you need or visit the Student Health Care Center website.

University Police Department: Visit the UF Police Department website or call 352-392-1111 (or 9-1-1 for emergencies). 

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Sexual Assault Recovery Services (SARS): Student Health Care Center, (352) 392-1161.

Academic Resources 

E-learning technical support: Contact the UF Computing Help Desk at 352-392-4357 (select option 2) or e-mail to Learning- [email protected]. https://lss.at.ufl.edu/help.shtml.

Career Connections Center: Reitz Union, 392-1601. Career assistance and counseling. 

Library Support: Various ways to receive assistance with respect to using the libraries or finding resources. 

Teaching Center: Broward Hall, 392-2010 or 392-6420. General study skills and tutoring. 

Writing Studio: 302 Tigert Hall, 846-1138. Help brainstorming, formatting, and writing papers. 

On-Line Students Complaints: View the Distance Learning Student Complaint Process.

Live Teaching:

Werner Hamacher, "Chapter 6 Remarks on Complaint," in On the Brink: Language, Time, History, and Politics

Our cat trying to break the fourth wall:

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 recon- dite, 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 inadvert- ently’’ 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 2nd ed 

Cleanth Brooks, "History without Footnotes- An Account of Keats' Urn"

Kenneth Burke, "Symbolic Action in a Poem by Keats" 

William Empson, "Thy Darling in an Urn"

Cleanth Brooks, "Postscript"

"History, Poetry, and the Footnote- Cleanth Brooks and Kenneth Burke"

Sugar: The Bitter Truth (2009)

index1.html

Repetition, AND the LIMITS of RESEMBLANCE: Imitation; Counterfeit; Homage; Caricature Parody; Satire

Conventions and Creativity

Here are two different versions of the same scene from two versions of the same film, namely, The Maltese Falcon. Which one is better? There is only one answer.

Two examples of the same convetion from two seasons of the same show. Which one is better? There is only one answer.

Montage

Mindhunter Season 1 Episode (dir. David Fincher, 2017)

vs.

Mindhunter Season 2 Episode 8 (dir. Carl Franklin, 2019) Time stamp 37:35

Shot Reverse Shot

Long take framed by standard shot reverse shot intro and exits:

Amazon Prime Patriot 1, Season 8 Episode

Synthesis and Sound Design

Cross cutting editing

and Opening Title Sequences

Mindhunter (2017; 2019)

Abridge the description below: Cut it down from 468 words to less than forty words:

Herman Melville, Chapter 42 "The Whiteness of the Whale," in Moby Dick.

Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty, as if imparting some special virtue of its own, as in marbles, japonicas, and pearls; and though various nations have in some way recognised a certain royal preeminence in this hue; even the barbaric, grand old kings of Pegu placing the title “Lord of the White Elephants” above all their other magniloquent ascriptions of dominion; and the modern kings of Siam unfurling the same snow-white quadruped in the royal standard; and the Hanoverian flag bearing the one figure of a snow-white charger; and the great Austrian Empire, Caesarian, heir to overlording Rome, having for the imperial color the same imperial hue; and though this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself, giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe; and though, besides, all this, whiteness has been even made significant of gladness, for among the Romans a white stone marked a joyful day; and though in other mortal sympathies and symbolizings, this same hue is made the emblem of many touching, noble things- the innocence of brides, the benignity of age; though among the Red Men of America the giving of the white belt of wampum was the deepest pledge of honor; though in many climes, whiteness typifies the majesty of Justice in the ermine of the Judge, and contributes to the daily state of kings and queens drawn by milk-white steeds; though even in the higher mysteries of the most august religions it has been made the symbol of the divine spotlessness and power; by the Persian fire worshippers, the white forked flame being held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies, Great Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow-white bull; and though to the noble Iroquois, the midwinter sacrifice of the sacred White Dog was by far the holiest festival of their theology, that spotless, faithful creature being held the purest envoy they could send to the Great Spirit with the annual tidings of their own fidelity; and though directly from the Latin word for white, all Christian priests derive the name of one part of their sacred vesture, the alb or tunic, worn beneath the cassock; and though among the holy pomps of the Romish faith, white is specially employed in the celebration of the Passion of our Lord; though in the Vision of St. John, white robes are given to the redeemed, and the four-and-twenty elders stand clothed in white before the great-white throne, and the Holy One that sitteth there white like wool; yet for all these accumulated associations, with whatever is sweet, and honorable, and sublime, there yet lurks an elusive something in the innermost idea of this hue, which strikes more of panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood.

William Wimsatt, "The Intentional Fallacy"

"One should never bear grudges against people, never judge them by the memory of one unkind act, for we can never know all the good resolves and effective actions of which their souls may have been capable at another time. And so, even from the simple point of view of foresight, we make mistakes. For no doubt the bad pattern we observed on that one occasion will recur. But the soul is richer than that, has many other patterns which will also recur in the same man, yet we refuse to take pleasure in them because of one piece of bad behavior in the past."

The Prisoner, trans. Carol Cook, p. 311

London Grammar - Rooting For You

Still Corners - Black Lagoon

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness 

CHROMATICS "SHADOW"

Jon Ronson How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life Feb. 12, 2015

Hannah Arendt diagramming Hegel

--V. F. Perkins

On Teaching

"You make it up as you go along."

Seiji Ozawa,‎ Absolutely on Music: Conversations (2016), pp. 67-70; 98-101; 233-238; 285-322.

On Creating and Collaboration

You make it without preparing.

--Jim Jarmusch (time:stamp 23:00)

Interview with cinematographer Gordon Willis fon the Criterion edition of The Parallax View

Knowing what you want before you shoot so little editing is needed (as opposed to dump truck filming leaving it all to the editor)

Film criticism at its dumbest? Do you really care who made a film? Do you have to like just because you need to show how woke you are? And is getting a film franchise for an action film the only goal for filmmakers?

Basic Terms of Music (including scale, melody, harmony, time signature, rythm, downbeat, fugue, among others)

Colin Marshall, "Music Meets Writing: On Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa."

--David Hume

Ir-Responsible Reading

--Martin Heidegger, "The Thing"

Martin Heidegger on the hermeneutic circle, writing in hermeneutic circles.

Maurice Blanchot on the vicious circle, writing in vicious circles. "Noli me legere"

the spiral

Gould Gould: Mozart in one minute

Johnny Thunders, "You can't put your arms around a memory" 1978

Pavement, "Silence Kid" 1994

U.S. Propaganda in one minute

Why Should You Be for Free Speech?

Mighty Ira: Ira Glasser, Free Speech and the ACLU Tmestamp31:00 on

Mighty Ira Documentary Trailer

Essential Viewing: Russell Brand On Trump and Free Speech

If you’re mildly conservative on Twitter, you’re Hitler | Ricky Gervais 

The Free Speech Movement

2020-12-16/fifty-years-of-tax-cuts-for-rich-didn-t-trickle-down-study-says

"Music is the space between the notes."

--Claude Debussy or Miles Davis

Guy J. Williams, "Harkness Learning: Principles of a Radical American Pedagogy"

Harkness table

Nonsite.org

The Second Civil War (dir. Joe Dante, 1997)

2001 A Space Odyssey 4K

Wall Street is diversity-inclusion-belonging

https://www.nasdaq.com

NASDAQ

"Happiness has no story." 

--Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

'Mighty Ira' Documentary Trailer

Ira Glasser, Free Speech and the ACLU

Bayardtalkaboutbooksyouhavenotreadprefacechapterone.pdf

bayard-how_to_talk_about.pdf

Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities, Chapters 100 and 114 in Volume One and Chapter 29 in Volume .

You already know how: Mr Robot ending S4E10: 410

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/arts/television/mr-robot-episode-10-recap.html

One of the most important books on one of the most horiffic chapters in American History you never ever knew about:

Eric Foner Reconstruction-Americas-Unfinished-Revolution

Eric Foner, "Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?"

History Workshop, Spring, 1984, No. 17 pp. 57-80

Rosa Luxemburg, The Mass Strike, the Political Party
and the Trade Unions (1906)

Obama: 'We tortured some folks'

Collateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq

Happy ending or sad ending:  Dom and Darlene are going to go to
Budapest, then Dom changes her mind, then Darlene does not use her
ticket and does not board the plane.  Cross cutting as Dom runs back to the gate.  Music Carly Rae Jepsen "Run Away
with Me" on E.Mo.Tion album   Darlene is in the
bathroom having a panic attack.  So you think it's going to be a happy
ending.  But last shot reveals the empty seat next to Dom.  Music
still playing.

So students.  You already know how to read by genre.  Happy ending--or
shock from happy ending withheld.  Only upbeat is Darlene calming down
and saying to herself in the mirror "I can take care of myself."

http://watch-mr-robot-season-4-episode-10-tvshow.over-blog.com/hompilya6a

"It's policy." No exceptions. (No sovereignty either.) [Dark/Web] episode 7 (2019)

Michael Kiwanuka - Cold Little Heart

Big Little Lies: Season 1 Opening Credits | HBO

Climate Change: what do you want me to say?

Adam Ruins Everything - Why Billionaire Philanthropy is Not So Selfless | truTV

Sandy Hook Promise 'Back-to-School' PSA

Sandy Hook Promise: Gun violence warning signs

Direct Knowledge (Information; myth) vs. Oblique Knowledge ([Deniable] Analogy; Philosophy and Literature)

Kevin Baker, "The Deep State of Dementia" From the September 2019 issue pdf

"First of all, they're all psychopaths."

Cardi B: I Became a Stripper to Escape Domestic Violence

Agnotology: Culturally Constructed Ignorance Wins the Day 
By Barry Ritholtz 

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."

Please don't be hard on your grad student teachers:

Why adjunct professors are struggling to make ends meet

Btw, don't even think of going to graduate school to get a Ph.D in English--or any other kind of--literature.

ANDREW KAY," Academe's Extinction Event: Failure, Whiskey, 
and Professional Collapse at the MLA," May 10, 2019

Back in the MLA

Dan Cohen, "The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper: University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves" The Atlantic May 2019

What is a "strong woman?" Who is a "strong woman?" A corporate oligarch funded by Wall Street and former prosecutor? Or a combat veteran funded by individual donors?

Check these out:

Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor' Lara Bazelon, NY Times, January 17 2019

Former DNC vice chair: Democratic primary was 'rigged' for Clinton

Tulsi Gabbard Calls Assange’s Arrest A Blow To Transparency And Free Press 

Morning Joe Attacks Tulsi For Opposing War (Time Stamp 3:30)

Tulsi Gabbard challenges Kamala Harris record as a prosecutor | full exchange

Harris dismisses Gabbard attack: I'm a top-tier candidate, she's at 0 or 1 percent

Watch Tulsi Gabbard's interview with Anderson Cooper

Tulsi Gabbard: Kamala Harris 'didn't give any answers'

Gabbard to MSNBC Host: These Are Talking Points Kamala Harris And Her Campaign Are Feeding You

Some "strong women" = mean girls? Tulsi Gabbard Takes On Kamala | The View

Tulsi Gabbard Says Kamala Harris' Jab Was 'Pathetic' and 'Cheap Smear' | TMZ

Mueller Testimony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EbrfiAxjY0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6CYXdspaBY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfFtq8C_1_4

LP - Lost On You [Official Video]

Judith Herman, Healing the Incest Wound

Heirich von Kleist, "On the Gradual Production of Thoughts Whilst Speaking"

STEAM, not STEM (The "A" stands for "Arts," as in Liberal Arts.)

If Students Are Smart, They’ll Major in What They Love

How to Think Like Shakespeare

Free Movies Streaming Online at UF Kanopy

Criterion Films on Hulu Plus

Missing UF Faculty (mostly from English)

Thinking of Going to Law School?

Rene Descartes, Part Three of Discourse on the Method

Student Co-Leaders:

When you prepare to co-lead, send the final draft of your notes to me via google docs at least twenty-hours before class begins.

Fables of School Reform

Hamlet, In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the inspiration for Shakespeare's Hamlet, the play's context and meaning, and why it has fascinated audiences from its first performance.

The Best Years Of Our Lives 1946 music and image

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Gadaj?ce g?owy/Talking Heads (1980)

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 

Mitsuko Uchida Masterclass  Comparing Beethoven N.4 in G Major and Mozart’s K. 503

Satie Vexations Complete non-stop performance ( 9.41 hours ) by Nicolas Horvath

Erik Satie - Tapisserie en fer forgé

Alain Badiou, The True Life

SENIORS FOR STUDENTS, Richard Burt, President

Nietzsche, Friedrich. 1872 Anti-Education Harper's Magazine

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’

Left Behind America 9/11/2018 

Jeff Bezos’s “Montessori, Inc.” Sets Up the Ed-Tech Takeover of Pre-K

Exercise and Depression

"When you exercise, your body releases chemicals called endorphins. These endorphins interact with the receptors in your brain that reduce your perception of pain."

This Is What It’s Like to Be a Teacher in America (2018)

Close Listening 

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music

"Teach us to care and not to care"

Ash-Wednesday
by T S Eliot

Stewart Lee on UKIP

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

Avalon Roxy Music

Peter Gabriel In Your Eyes

John McGlaughlin in Bitches Brew 

The Who - The Kids Are Alright

austerity fails.mp4

Theodo Adorno,

 Philip Roth, "Writing About Jews" (DEC, 1963)

U.S. Banks Are Terrified of Chinese Payment Apps

Theodor Adorno, " Behind the Mirror" in Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

To understand how I have designed and planned this course, please be sure to look at

PK Feyerabend, Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge (1975) 

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, "Scrips and Scribbles," MLN, Vol. 118, No. 3, German Issue (Apr., 2003), pp. 622-636.

John Law, After Method: Mess in Social Science Research Routledge, 2004

Consider everything I say as parts of the contents of a time capsule from long ago that has yet to be opened, much kess indexed and archived.

Katha Pollitt, "Roe Isn’t Going Down Without a Fight," May 2019

Commencement Speeches From Out Of Touch Celebrities 2019

Dr Van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Academic Time circa 2000: Dr. Judith Lewis Herman, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Harvard ... joins UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler 

Not a very good take:

The Americanization of Popular Culture Should Terrify Us All

A very good take:

Why Netflix and Amazon Algorithms Are Destroying the Movies

Hillary Clinton Says the ‘Future is Female’

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Sorry to Bother You (dir. Boots Riley, 2018)

"The Future is Female Ejaculation" (It is against the law in Australia.)

“America has always been at its best when America has acted as one America”

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