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FIRST DAY OF CLASS RESOURCES

Fall 2024

ENG 4310

Section 8RB2 28565

Sound, Music, and the Horror Film

T 4, R 4-5

There will be no Screenings in ROL 115 W 9-11

My courses are off the grid.

I love literature and film for many reasons, three of them being that literature and film are anti-authoritarian, emotional, and deeply intellectual.

Class Schedule

Course Decription

Requirements


Co-Leading Class

Due the Monday or Wednesday Before Class:

A. Two Discussion Questions on the film

and

B. Three Shots

Post Your DQs etc on canvas and on this google document here.

FIRST PAPER:

 Film Clip Analysis Assignment 

DUE Saturday, September 29, by 11:59 p.m.

SECOND PAPER:

 Film Clip Analysis Assignment 

DUE Saturday, November 23, by 11:59 p.m.

 

 

 

Professor Richard Burt

Please email me only to send me class assignments. Otherwise, please talk to me in person after (not before) class or during office hours. However, if you do feel you need to contact me immediately, email me at [email protected].

Email all papers for the course to me at [email protected]

The current version of this website

is the binding one.

Office: 4314 Turlington Hall

Office Hours: Tuesdays period 5, Thursdays period 6, and by appointment

"The usefulness of useless knowledge" 

--Abraham Flexneron, 9/30/1939

Burt Syllabi

For all UF policies on student conduct and resources, please scroll down this page or go here: UF Syllabus Policy 2024

All assignments matter in this course. You can't game out your grade on canvas.

 

 

Attendance

Paper Guidelines

Live Grading


UF Class Period Times

Slow Motion Reading

 

Columbia Film Language Glossary.

Yale Film Analysis

Criterion: Three Reasons

 

 

You will be counted absent if you do not turn in the DQs on time Mondays and Wednesdays. No late work is accepted. I allow two unexcused absences. Three or four absences will impact your final grade at my discretion. More than four absences means you will fail course. See the Attendance policies for this course.

YOUR FIRST ASSIGNMENT is due August 26 by 5:00 p.m. Post your 2 DQs and three shots on BOTH this Google doc AND on CANVAS: https://elearning.ufl.edu/ 

Nothing Below is Required for this Course.

Period 4 10:40-11:30
Period 5 11:45-12:25

 

Monty Python - The Black Knight - Tis But A Scratch

You Are Free to Stop Reading Here and Now.

Please Clap (timestamp (00:29)

The views expressed by Richard Burt in interviews and commentaries on the readings and films assigned in this class may or may not reflect the views of Professor Richard Burt, Ph.D. Any resemblance beween Richard Burt and Richard Burt, Ph.D. is purely coincidental.

Further Suggested Reading

Gilbert Ryle, Knowing How and Knowing That: The Presidential Address Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 46 (1945 - 1946), pp. 1-16

Gilbert Ryle, Improvisation, Mind , Jan., 1976, New Series, Vol. 85, No. 337 (Jan., 1976), pp. 69-83

A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RYLE AND WITTGENSTEIN by 0. K. Bouwsma

Jason Stanley, Timothy Williamson, Knowing How The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 98, No. 8 (Aug., 2001), pp. 411-444

An Antique Dress Held a Secret: A Coded Message from 1888

Harvard Finds More Instances of ‘Duplicative Language’ in President’s Work Dec. 20, 2023 NY Times

The Kuleshov Effect / Effetto Kuleshov

Vienna and Schubert: 'Death and the Maiden' String Quartet - Professor Chris Hogwood CBE

Repetition is key to learning.

To learn how to understand a piece of music, a philosopher said, you have to hear it twice.

A conductor of baroque music said you have to listen to repeated hearings before you understand it.

"The greatest pieces of music are called classics simply because at a first hearing--that is terribly...very complicated to work out what's going on or even more complicated to explain to yourself why it's going on--even to hear it has to be heard several times. Probably after first hearing, immediately go back and hear it again, and on repeated hearings repeated things come to light."

--Christopher Hogwood

"How full of meaning and significance the language of music is we see from the repetition of signs, as well as from the Da capo which would be intolerable in the case of works composed in the language of words. In music, however, they are very appropriate and beneficial; for to comprehend it fully, we must hear it twice."

--Arthur Schopenhauer, "On the Metaphysics of Music"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTziL0Xwa-s

timestamp 29:00

"Life is, in fact, a battle. On this point optimists and pessimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and [hu]mankind generally, unhappy. But the world as it stands is no illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of a night; we wake up to it again for ever and ever; we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it. We can welcome experience as it comes, and give it what it demands, in exchange for something which it is idle to pause to call much or little so long as it contributes to swell the volume of consciousness. In this there is mingled pain and delight, but over the mysterious mixture there hovers a visible rule, that bids us learn to will and seek to understand." 
—Henry James, "The Sorrowful World of [Ivan] Turgénieff", French Poets and Novelists (1878) 

Talking Heads - Krzysztof Kieslowski

J. Hillis Miller, Why Literature? A Profession

Aristotle, On Sophistical Refutations Translated by W. A. Pickard-Cambridge

Harvard Finds More Instances of ‘Duplicative Language’ in President’s Work Dec. 20, 2023 NY Times

Administration grows, faculty shrinks. Again. JUNE 12, 2023

"It would be easy to give up."

--Sir András Schiff - Live at Wigmore Hall

Saying the Right Thing?

Adam Phillips, "On Giving Up," Vol. 44 No. 1 · 6 January 2022

Michelle Ty, Introduction: Higher Education on Its Knees
Qui Parle Vol. 20, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2011), pp. 3-32

 

Jeannie Suk Gersen, "What if Trigger Warnings Don’t Work?" September 28, 2021


Marjorie Perloff, The Decay of a Discipline: Reflections on the English Department Today
Qui Parle Vol. 20, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2011), pp. 153-167

Long may this happy heaven-tied band
Exercise its most holy art,
Keeping her heart within his hand,
Keeping his hand upon her heart;
But from her eyes
Feel he no charms;
Find she no joy
But in his arms;
May each maintain a well-fledged nest
Of wingèd loves in either's breast;
Be each of them a mutual sacrifice
Of either's eyes.

May their whole life a sweet song prove
Set to two well-composèd parts
By music's noblest master, Love,
Played on the strings of both their hearts;
Whose mutual sound
May ever meet
In a just round,
Not short though sweet;
Long may heaven listen to the song
And think it short though it be long;
Oh, prove't a well-set song indeed, which shows
Sweet'st in the close!

--Richard Crashaw

I don't do trigger warnings. I do spoilers.

Penn State fully supports the fundamental right of free speech – even speech that tests the limits of tolerance. Free speech and expression of ideas are essential to higher education’s academic and civic missions. 

An open letter written in March by Jenny Martinez, dean of Stanford University Law School, in which she affirmed her decision to apologize to Stuart Kyle Duncan, a Donald Trump-appointed federal appeals judge, after hecklers interrupted his speech.

Jeannie Suk Gersen, "What if Trigger Warnings Don’t Work?" September 28, 2021

Russell Jacoby, "A Climate of Fear The Free Speech Skeptics Abandon Salman Rushdie" Harper's (March, 2023)

She Showed a Prophet’s Image, and Divided a College Campus” (front page, Jan. 8, 2023) And she got fired.

Why you should absolutely be for free speech. Srsly.

'Mighty Ira' Documentary Trailer

Ira Glasser, Free Speech and the ACLU

DIKW pyramid

Rowan Atkinson on free speech

Lucian, How to Write History

"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."

On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings

--William James

Disruptive Behavior: 

"Perhaps I may give you a more vivid picture of repression and of its necessary relation to resistance, by a rough analogy derived from our actual situation at the present moment. Let us suppose that in this lecture-room and among this audience, whose exemplary quiet and attentiveness I cannot sufficiently commend, there is nevertheless someone who is causing a disturbance and whose ill-mannered laughter, chattering and shuffling with his feet are distracting my attention from my task. I have to announce that I cannot proceed with my lecture; and thereupon three or four of you who are strong men stand up and, after a short struggle, put the interrupter outside the door. So now he is ‘repressed’, and I can continue my lecture. But in order that the interruption shall not be repeated, in case the individual who has been expelled should try to enter the room once more, the gentlemen who have put my will into effect place their chairs up against the door and thus establish a ‘resistance’ after the repression has been accomplished. If you will now translate the two localities concerned into psychical terms as the ‘conscious’ and the ‘unconscious’, you will have before you a fairly good picture of the process of repression. . . . At first sight it really seems impossible to trace a path from repression to the formation of symptoms. Instead of giving a complicated theoretical account, I will return here to the analogy which I employed earlier for my explanation of repression. If you come to think of it, the removal of the interrupter and the posting of the guardians at the door may not mean the end of the story. It may very well be that the individual who has been expelled, and who has now become embittered and reckless, will cause us further trouble. It is true that he is no longer among us; we are free from his presence, from his insulting laughter and his sotto voce comments. But in some respects, nevertheless, the repression has been unsuccessful; for now he is making an intolerable exhibition of himself outside the room, and his shouting and banging on the door with his fists interfere with my lecture even more than his bad behaviour did before. In these circumstances we could not fail to be delighted if our respected president, Dr. Stanley Hall, should be willing to assume the role of mediator and peacemaker. He would have a talk with the unruly person outside and would then come to us with a request that he should be re-admitted after all: he himself would guarantee that the man would now behave better. On Dr. Hall’s authority we decide to lift the repression, and peace and quiet are restored. This presents what is really no bad picture of the physician’s task in the psycho-analytic treatment of the neuroses."

Sigmund Freud, Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

A Fine Line Between... oneletterwords.com

https://www.tumblr.com/nevver

https://entre-image-blog.tumblr.com/post/718855803999813632/the-fool-moebius

Beginning with Poems; An Anthology Ed. Brower, Reuben A. (1966)

Andrew Koppelman, "Stanford Law Students’ Infantile Protests," April 3, 2023

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

"Temp" Music: The Marvel Symphonic Universe

Full Circle Narrative via Flashback: Film-Noir | Not Wanted (1949 Ida Lupino) 

Les coulisses de la construction de la salle Labrouste sous le Second Empire | Le blog de Gallica

Paintings In Movies: From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Portrait of a Lady on Fire

When Citizen Kane met Bambi : The Lost Paintings of Tyrus Wong [CONTAINS SPOILERS]

Cabinet Magazine

"This Film Does Not Exist" NY TIMES JANUARY 13, 2023 On Jodorwski's plans for Tron and A.I. imaging of film.

Go, Dog. Go! (1961)

Every frame a painting

The Marvel Symphonic Universe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs

Hollywood Scores & Soundtracks: What Do They Sound Like? Do They Sound Like Things?? Let's Find Out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEfQ_9DIItI

Mozart au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTE

Beethoven au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTE

Decision to Leave

Wagner au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTE

Käbi Laretei

Jonathan Rauch, "Words Aren't Violence" NYT 1993

UF Protest Sign:

Peter Hall - Pauses are as important as the lines (28/40)

Vienna and Schubert: 'Death and the Maiden' String Quartet - Professor Chris Hogwood CBE

"The greatest pieces of music are called classics simply because at a first hearing--that is terribly...very complicated to work out what's going on or even more complicated to explain to yourself why it's going on--even to hear it has to be heard several times. Probably after first hearing, immediately go back and hear it again, and on repeated hearings repeated things come to light."

--Christopher Hogwood

Repetition is key to learning.

To learn how to understand a piece of music, a philosopher said, you have to hear it twice.

A conductor of baroque music said you have to listen to repeated hearings before you understand it.

"How full of meaning and significance the language of music is we see from the repetition of signs, as well as from the Da capo which would be intolerable in the case of works composed in the language of words. In music, however, they are very appropriate and beneficial; for to comprehend it fully, we must hear it twice."

--Arthur Schopenhauer, "On the Metaphysics of Music"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTziL0Xwa-s

timestamp 29:00

 

Remember. Don't make a faux pas.

All recommended readings are optional.

"We can’t imagine what’s next, except that it will surely involve more make-work for more administrators, whose proliferation has driven much of the rise in college tuition and student debt. For 16,937 students, Stanford lists 2,288 faculty and 15,750 administrative staff."

--"The Stanford Guide to Acceptable Words
Behold the school’s Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative."
By The Editorial Board
Dec. 19, 2022

Félix Fénéon, Petit Bottin des lettres et des arts (1886)

THE PERSON VS. THE ARTIST

Jordan Wolfson / JORDAN WOLFSON / Artist Talk: Jordan Wolfson & Simon Denny

Telephone #1: Phoned-In #13 by Paul Legault & Sharmila Cohen

Storyville - The Trials Of Oppenheimer - BBC Documentary

'Mighty Ira' Documentary Trailer

Ira Glasser, Free Speech and the ACLU

Jonathan Rauch, "Words Aren't Violence" NYT 1993

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

Harkness table

Apps and Oranges: Behind Apple’s ‘Bullying’ on Trademarks

The Cubies’ ABC (1913)

 Close Readings Plus course.

Jonathan Rauch, "Words Aren't Violence" NYT 1993

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.

How will we defeat communism unless we know what it is, and what it teaches, and why does it have such an appeal for men, why are so many people swearing allegiance to it? It is almost a religion, albeit one of the nether regions.

And we have got to fight it with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they are accessible to others is unquestioned, or it isn't America."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States: 1953 ‐ 1961 "Remarks at the Dartmouth College Commencement Exercises, Hanover, New Hampshire." June 14, 1953

"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."

On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings

--William James

Gould Gould: Mozart in one minute

--V. F. Perkins

"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

Nothing Below is Required for this Course. You Are Free to Stop Reading Here and Now:

Inside the Academic-Freedom Crisis That Roiled Florida’s Flagship

A ‘Chronicle’ investigation tracks how a decision to silence professors emerged from the depths of bureaucracy.

Sept 7 2022

Nothing Below is Required for this Course. You Are Free to Stop Reading Here and Now:

La leçon de Marcel Proust selon Roland Barthes

Retrouvez bien d'autres archives sur Marcel Proust ici : http://bit.ly/2EeojUr

The Kuleshov Effect / Effetto Kuleshov

Gov. DeSantis wants retired cops as teachers

Judge Issues Stinging Free Speech Ruling Against University of Florida  The New York Times January 21, 2022

Judge Walker's Motion for Preliminary Injunction Ruling 01212022

If to read a book as it should be read calls for the rarest qualities of imagination, insight, and judgment, you may perhaps conclude that literature is a very complex art and that it is unlikely that we shall be able, even after a lifetime of reading, to make any valuable contribution to its criticism. We must remain readers.

Virginia Woolf, “How Should One Read a Book?” 1926 (read for pleasure and for profit)

How the HR Monster Destroyed the Workplace: The Woke Mission Creep of Human Resources Departments

Rescuing the Left From Its Obsession With Culture — Vivek Chibber

Chris Hedges on Cancel Culture, Empathy And Grace

Peter Hall - Pauses are as important as the lines (28/40)

I.A. Richards, How to read a page : a course in efficient reading, with an introduction to a hundred great words

"What a stupid f***ing way to have a really important conversation": Reflections On A Yearlong White Fragility Training

The Bellows in Conversation with Adolph Reed and Walter Benn Michaels

The Sex Bureaucracy Jacob Gersen & Jeannie Suk*

Politics After Trump: A Conversation with Chris Hedges

Slavoj Zizek — Why white liberals like to humiliate themselves

Slavoj Zizek — Why white liberals love identity politics

Laura Kipnis Academe Is a Hotbed of Craven Snitches: How did scholars become such tattletales? March 17, 2022

, "What’s So Great About Great-Books Courses? The humanities are in danger, but humanists can’t agree on how—or why—they should be saved." New YorkerDecember 13, 2021

Critical judgment

suspension of moral judgment

John Keats, "negative capability"

The author and the work of art--Cancellation; Ad Hominem

Self-cancellation:

Gerard Manley Hopkins burned his poems when he entered a seminary. See William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity

Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature--no relation between an author and text (Yet . . . )

Erich Auerbach, Mimesis--an author is always in history

Martin Heidegger on the German poet Georg Trakl in  On the Way to Language and Poetry, Language, Thought--ignore the author.

"No matter how  scandalous and unsavory the Derrida-Heidegger-Trakl encounter may seem, therefore, it may well be that the encounter has - as Merleau-Ponty said of the artwork - most of its life still ahead of it. 

Certainly, there seems to be no great interest in the Anglo-American world in either Heidegger's Trakl interpretation or Derrida' s reading of it. 

While many philosophers continue to brave Heidegger's Hölderlin interpretations, very few take the risk of engaging with Trakl. Why? I am not sure. Perhaps because of the unsavory atmosphere that suffuses the Trakl world: cocaine, incest, war, suicide - conservative Heideggerians have to wonder why Heidegger was drawn to any of this, and why Derrida would want to make Heidegger's reading of Trakl one of the principal foyers of his reading of Heidegger. 

It may be that the new waves of scandal lapping against the shores of Heidegger's life make it less likely than ever that students will want to take up Heidegger's and Derrida's readings of Trakl, especially in the United States, where Puritanism continues to reign in the academy, in our political life, and in our military detention." 

--David Farrell Krell, "Marginalia to "Geschlecht III": Derrida on Heidegger on Trakl" 

The New Centennial Review, Fall 2007, Vol. 7, No. 2, Remainders: Of Jacques Derrida (Fall 2007), pp. 175-199 

To counter widely circulated allegations, let it be stated here explicitly that the dedication of Being and Time mentioned on page 16 of the Dialogue remained in Being and Time until its fourth edition of 1935. In 1941, when my publishers felt that the fifth edition might be endangered and that, indeed, the book might be suppressed, it was finally agreed, on the suggestion and at the desire of Niemeyer, that the dedication be omitted from the edition, on the condition imposed by me that the note to page 38 be retained— a note which in fact states the reason for that dedication, and which runs: "If the following investigation has taken any steps forward in disclosing the 'things themselves', the  author must first of all thank E. Husserl, who, by providing his own incisive personal guidance and by freely turning over his unpublished investigations, familiarized the author with the most diverse areas of phenomenological research during his student years in Freiburg" (Being and Time, Harper & Row, 1962, 489). 

--On the Way to Language, pp. 199-200

Textual unconscious

irony

incomprehension

Booth unmade puns

Fireworks are apparitions par excellence.  They are an empirical appearance free of the burden of empirical being in general which is that it has duration; they are a sign of heaven and yet artefactual; they are both a writing on the wall, rising and fading away in short order, and yet not a writing that has any meaning we can make sense of.

--Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, 120

Woke Dictionary

'All-American Nativism' with Dan Denvir, Part I

Tulsi Gabbard Introduces Bill To Completely Repeal The Patriot Act.

“A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader.” 

--Vladimir Nabokov

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)

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

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 fashions 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

One of the most important books on a chapter of 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 

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

Harkness table

Barbara Johnson, "The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida," Yale French Studies, 1977, No. 55/56, Literature and Psychoanalysis. The Question of Reading: Otherwise (1977), pp. 457-505

Various first words

 

Who is supposed to find this video funny? JOE BIDEN: ACCEPTABLE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES Steve Buscemi narrates this short film 8/20/2020

Joe Biden

CLOSE READ Jason Farago Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait Sept. 25, 2020

"Don't Be a Sucker" (1943 / 1947)

Shant Mesrobian gives an illuminating account of the authoritarian Biden voter's contempt for progressives starting at 54:02 and ending at 56:32. The entire interview is worth a listen.

"In Amazon’s Bookstore, No Second Chances for the Third Reich. The retailer once said it would sell “the good, the bad and the ugly.” Now it has banished objectionable volumes — and agreed to erasing the swastikas from a photo book about a Nazi takeover." New York Times Feb. 9, 2020

Holbein's extraordinary 'Ambassadors' | National Gallery

Nonsite.org

WATCHING FILMS TO THE END

DARK WATERS | Official Trailer

All the President's Men - Original Theatrical Trailer

The Candidate - Original Theatrical Trailer

Medium Cool (1969) ORIGINAL TRAILER

The Mothman Prophecies - Trailer.

 Secrecy and the Press. Remarks by. Katharine Graham

Megan Zahneis, This Tenured Professor Said His College’s Reopening Plans Risked Deaths. That’s Now in His Personnel File.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Widescreen vs. Pan & Scan

Shockproof (dir. Douglas Sirk,1949) Opening Sequence and the reveal; see also the reveal at the end of the first five minutes of Hitchcock's Marnie

The Bellows in Conversation with Adolph Reed and Walter Benn Michaels

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."

Edward Snowden: How Your Cell Phone Spies on You

2012: When I Knew My Job Was Over (Time Stamp 1:50)

'All-American Nativism' with Dan Denvir, Part I

"We had expected the great world-dominating nations of white race upon whom the leadership of the human species has fallen, who were known to have world-wide interests as their concern, to whose creative powers were due not only our technical advances towards the control of nature but the artistic and scientific standards of civilization - we had expected these people to succeed in discovering another way of settling misunderstandings and conflicts of interest. Within each of these nations there prevailed high norms of moral conduct for the individual, to which his manner of life was bound to conform if he desired to take part in a civilized community. . . .

A human being is seldom altogether good or bad; he is usually 'good' in one relation and 'bad' in another, or 'good' in certain external circumstances and in others decidedly 'bad'. It is interesting to find that the pre-existence of strong 'bad' impulses in infancy is often the actual condition for an unmistakable inclination towards 'good' in the adult. Those who as children have been the most pronounced egoists may well become the most helpful and self-sacrificing members of the community; most of our sentimentalists, friends of humanity and protectors of animals have been evolved from little sadists and animal-tormentors.

Sigmund Freud "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death" (1915)

Now that the TV show COPS has been cancelled, it should be replaced by a show called STOPPED. Each episode of STOPPED would show iphone videos of black people who have been murdered by police or who have talked their way out of an illegal stop with guns drawn by cops. Payment for videos that haven't gone viral but can be posted after the show airs. Copyright belongs to the original video recorder.

1 youtube.com/watch

2 .youtube.com/watch

3. Youtube.com/watch

These Scholars Denounced the Police

"What a stupid f***ing way to have a really important conversation": Reflections On A Yearlong White Fragility Training

Trump Tells Agencies To End Trainings On 'White Privilege ...

The 1619 Project - The New York Times

The Truth About the Confederacy in the United States (the 1619 part is wrong.)

I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.

Scholars are eviscerating The New York Times' 1619 Project

Seven months later, 1619 Project leader admits she got it wrong

Conservatives rail against New York Times 1619 Project on ...

Trump warns schools teaching 1619 Project 'will not be funded'

 

So much for "representation":

Melania Trump touts husband's record on women

 Jed Rubenfeld, "Mishandling Rape," Nov. 15, 2014

Yale Law Professor [Jed Rubenfeld] Is Suspended After Sexual Harassment Inquiry

The Never-ending Story of Men and Women Laura Kipnis 2016 

 

from Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus, trans. John Wood, p. 63

A Black Marxist Scholar Wanted to Talk About Race. It Ignited a Fury.

 

Algorithms rule us all - VPRO documentary - 2018

Cybertopia - Dreams of Silicon Valley - Docu - 2015

The financial brain of the London City - Docu - 2013

HyperNormalisation: A new film by Adam Curtis 

The Humanities After Covid-19

 

--Martin Heidegger, "The Thing"

"Happiness has no story." 

--Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

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

Wall Street is diversity-inclusion-belonging

https://www.nasdaq.com

NASDAQ

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

Conventions and Creativity

Montage 

Mindhunter Season 1 (dir. David Fincher, 2017)

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)

Terrence Malick’s “Introduction” and “Critical Notes” for his translation of Heidegger’s The Essence Of Reasons

NOMAD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BRUCE CHATWIN

A Conversation with Werner Herzog - Doc/Fest 2019

The Never-ending Story of Men and Women Laura Kipnis 2016

Scholars Denounced the Police

The Humanities After Covid-19

EXPOSED! Mainstream Media Caught Using Fake Sources

"Unity"

Cancel culture 

Slavoj Žižek on "They Live" 

They Live (1988) - Seeing the Truth Scene

Shockproof (dir. Douglas Sirk,1949) Opening Sequence The Reveal

The Truth About the Confederacy in the United States (the 1619 part is wrong. The United States was founded in 1776.)

BIBER PASSACAGLIA 

Koyaanisqatsi part 1/9

You already know how: Mr Robot ending S4E10: 410

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

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 boarding 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


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

Wagner au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTE

Mozart au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTE

Beethoven au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTE

Bach au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTE

Schubert au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTE

Tchaïkovsky au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTE

It's so hard to be a billionaire.
https://www.ft.com/content/1e477dda-070e-11ea-9afa-d9e2401fa7ca

https://www.ft.com/content/0bab153a-026b-11ea-b7bc-f3fa4e77dd47

https://www.ft.com/content/1997bc42-0609-11ea-9afa-d9e2401fa7ca

https://www.ft.com/content/752ffc50-079d-11ea-a984-fbbacad9e7dd

Michael Kiwanuka - Cold Little Heart

Big Little Lies: Season 1 Opening Credits | HBO

Twitter Thread on U.S. Slavery

IF AMERICANS KNEW - TRAILER

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

Mindhunter Season 1, Episode 3 (2017)

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

Amazon Prime Patriot 1, Season 8 Episode

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

Stephen Marche, a survivor of academia, returns to a troubled field

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

Rudy Giuliani Loves Fascism "God Bless America!"

The Purge: Election Year 

ROBOCOP Original Trailer - 1987

Why did police have military-grade equipment in the first place?

365 Days and 605 Armored Military Vehicles Later: Police Militarization a Year After Ferguson

Military veterans see deeply flawed police response in Ferguson

Ferguson, Mo., police routinely violated blacks’ rights, federal inquiry finds

STANLEY FISH  The Trouble With Tolerance NOVEMBER 10, 2006

b

Cardi B: I Became a Stripper to Escape Domestic Violence

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.

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

 

The current version of this website is the binding one, if you are taking this course.

 

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?

 

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

Did Led Zeppelin steal Stairway to Heaven's opening notes?

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:

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]

my-ears-could-hear-the-war-but-the-censors-wouldnt-let-me-read-it/

LP - Lost On You [Official Video]

Judith Herman, Healing the Incest Wound

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

domed bookshelf

 , "Writing About Jews" (DEC, 1963)

TIMOTHY SNYDER, It Can Happen Here

"The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s decision to speak out against Holocaust analogies is a moral threat" JULY 12, 2019

U.S. Banks Are Terrified of Chinese Payment Apps

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

Gadaj?ce g?owy/Talking Heads (1980)

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

Werner Herzog talks books

Former CIA Director Admits to US Foreign Meddling, Laughs About It (2018)

 

ANTICIPATORY LEARNING

 

Hillary Clinton Says the ‘Future is Female’

vs.

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

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

This segment below is really worth watching in its entirety: One brave anti-war candidate gets through the gauntlet of four furious, total establishment enemy combatants. Gabbard is incredibly poised and 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 chickenhawk 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

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

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