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666   Now wol I seye yow sooth, by Seint Thomas,
Now will I tell you the truth, by Saint Thomas,
667   Why that I rente out of his book a leef,
Why I tore a leaf out of his book,
668   For which he smoot me so that I was deef.
For which he hit me so hard that I was deaf.

669   He hadde a book that gladly, nyght and day,
He had a book that regularly, night and day,
670   For his desport he wolde rede alway;
For his amusement he would always read;
671   He cleped it Valerie and Theofraste,
He called it Valerie and Theofrastus,
672   At which book he lough alwey ful faste.
At which book he always heartily laughed.
673   And eek ther was somtyme a clerk at Rome,
And also there was once a clerk at Rome,
674   A cardinal, that highte Seint Jerome,
A cardinal, who is called Saint Jerome,
675   That made a book agayn Jovinian;
That made a book against Jovinian;
676   In which book eek ther was Tertulan,
In which book also there was Tertullian,
677   Crisippus, Trotula, and Helowys,
Crisippus, Trotula, and Heloise,
678   That was abbesse nat fer fro Parys,
Who was abbess not far from Paris,
679   And eek the Parables of Salomon,
And also the Parables of Salomon,
680   Ovides Art, and bookes many on,
Ovid's Art, and many other books,
681   And alle thise were bounden in o volume.
And all these were bound in one volume.
682   And every nyght and day was his custume,
And every night and day was his custom,
683   Whan he hadde leyser and vacacioun
When he had leisure and spare time
684   From oother worldly occupacioun,
From other worldly occupations,
685   To reden on this book of wikked wyves.
To read in this book of wicked wives.
686   He knew of hem mo legendes and lyves
He knew of them more legends and lives
687   Than been of goode wyves in the Bible.
Than are of good women in the Bible.
688   For trusteth wel, it is an impossible
For trust well, it is an impossibility
689   That any clerk wol speke good of wyves,
That any clerk will speak good of women,
690   But if it be of hooly seintes lyves,
Unless it be of holy saints' lives,
691   Ne of noon oother womman never the mo.
Nor of any other woman in any way.
692   Who peyntede the leon, tel me who?
Who painted the lion, tell me who?
693   By God, if wommen hadde writen stories,
By God, if women had written stories,
694   As clerkes han withinne hire oratories,
As clerks have within their studies,
695   They wolde han writen of men moore wikkednesse
They would have written of men more wickedness
696   Than al the mark of Adam may redresse.
Than all the male sex could set right.
697   The children of Mercurie and of Venus
The children of Mercury (clerks) and of Venus (lovers)
698   Been in hir wirkyng ful contrarius;
Are directly contrary in their actions;
699   Mercurie loveth wysdam and science,
Mercury loves wisdom and knowledge,
700   And Venus loveth ryot and dispence.
And Venus loves riot and extravagant expenditures.
701   And, for hire diverse disposicioun,
And, because of their diverse dispositions,
702   Ech falleth in otheres exaltacioun.
Each falls in the other's most powerful astronomical sign.
703   And thus, God woot, Mercurie is desolat
And thus, God knows, Mercury is powerless
704   In Pisces, wher Venus is exaltat,
In Pisces (the Fish), where Venus is exalted,
705   And Venus falleth ther Mercurie is reysed.
And Venus falls where Mercury is raised.
706   Therfore no womman of no clerk is preysed.
Therefore no woman is praised by any clerk.
707   The clerk, whan he is oold, and may noght do
The clerk, when he is old, and can not do
708   Of Venus werkes worth his olde sho,
Any of Venus's works worth his old shoe,
709   Thanne sit he doun, and writ in his dotage
Then he sits down, and writes in his dotage
710   That wommen kan nat kepe hir mariage!
That women can not keep their marriage!

711   But now to purpos, why I tolde thee
But now to the point, why I told thee
712   That I was beten for a book, pardee!
That I was beaten for a book, by God!
713   Upon a nyght Jankyn, that was oure sire,
Upon a night Jankin, that was master of our house,
714   Redde on his book, as he sat by the fire,
Read on his book, as he sat by the fire,
715   Of Eva first, that for hir wikkednesse
Of Eve first, how for her wickedness
716   Was al mankynde broght to wrecchednesse,
All mankind was brought to wretchedness,
717   For which that Jhesu Crist hymself was slayn,
For which Jesus Christ himself was slain,
718   That boghte us with his herte blood agayn.
Who bought us back with his heart's blood.
719   Lo, heere expres of womman may ye fynde
Lo, here clearly of woman you may find
720   That womman was the los of al mankynde.
That woman was the cause of the loss of all mankind.

721   Tho redde he me how Sampson loste his heres:
Then he read me how Sampson lost his hair:
722   Slepynge, his lemman kitte it with hir sheres;
Sleeping, his lover cut it with her shears;
723   Thurgh which treson loste he bothe his yen.
Through which treason he lost both his eyes.
724   Tho redde he me, if that I shal nat lyen,
Then he read to me, if I shall not lie,
725   Of Hercules and of his Dianyre,
Of Hercules and of his Dianyre,
726   That caused hym to sette hymself afyre.
Who caused him to set himself on fire.

727   No thyng forgat he the care and the wo
He forgot not a bit of the care and the woe
728   That Socrates hadde with his wyves two,
That Socrates had with his two wives,
729   How Xantippa caste pisse upon his heed.
How Xantippa caste piss upon his head.
730   This sely man sat stille as he were deed;
This poor man sat still as if he were dead;
731   He wiped his heed, namoore dorste he seyn,
He wiped his head, no more dared he say,
732   But `Er that thonder stynte, comth a reyn!'
But `Before thunder stops, there comes a rain!'

733   Of Phasipha, that was the queene of Crete,
Of Phasipha, that was the queen of Crete,
734   For shrewednesse, hym thoughte the tale swete;
For sheer malignancy, he thought the tale sweet;
735   Fy! Spek namoore -- it is a grisly thyng --
Fie! Speak no more -- it is a grisly thing --
736   Of hire horrible lust and hir likyng.
Of her horrible lust and her pleasure.

737   Of Clitermystra, for hire lecherye,
Of Clitermystra, for her lechery,
738   That falsly made hire housbonde for to dye,
That falsely made her husband to die,
739   He redde it with ful good devocioun.
He read it with very good devotion.

740   He tolde me eek for what occasioun
He told me also for what occasion
741   Amphiorax at Thebes loste his lyf.
Amphiorax at Thebes lost his life.
742   Myn housbonde hadde a legende of his wyf,
My husband had a legend of his wife,
743   Eriphilem, that for an ouche of gold
Eriphilem, that for a brooch of gold
744   Hath prively unto the Grekes told
Has secretly unto the Greeks told
745   Wher that hir housbonde hidde hym in a place,
Where her husband hid him in a place,
746   For which he hadde at Thebes sory grace.
For which he had at Thebes a sad fate.

747   Of Lyvia tolde he me, and of Lucye:
Of Livia told he me, and of Lucie:
748   They bothe made hir housbondes for to dye,
They both made their husbands to die,
749   That oon for love, that oother was for hate.
That one for love, that other was for hate.
750   Lyvia hir housbonde, on an even late,
Livia her husband, on a late evening,
751   Empoysoned hath, for that she was his fo;
Has poisoned, because she was his foe;
752   Lucia, likerous, loved hire housbonde so
Lucia, lecherous, loved her husband so much
753   That, for he sholde alwey upon hire thynke,
That, so that he should always think upon her,
754   She yaf hym swich a manere love-drynke
She gave him such a sort of love-drink
755   That he was deed er it were by the morwe;
That he was dead before it was morning;
756   And thus algates housbondes han sorwe.
And thus always husbands have sorrow.

757   Thanne tolde he me how oon Latumyus
Then he told me how one Latumius
758   Compleyned unto his felawe Arrius
Complained unto his fellow Arrius
759   That in his gardyn growed swich a tree
That in his garden grew such a tree
760   On which he seyde how that his wyves thre
On which he said how his three wives
761   Hanged hemself for herte despitus.
Hanged themselves for the malice of their hearts
762   `O leeve brother,' quod this Arrius,
`O dear brother,' this Arrius said,
763   `Yif me a plante of thilke blissed tree,
`Give me a shoot of that same blessed tree,
764   And in my gardyn planted shal it bee.'
And in my garden shall it be planted.'

765   Of latter date, of wyves hath he red
Of latter date, of wives has he read
766   That somme han slayn hir housbondes in hir bed,
That some have slain their husbands in their bed,
767   And lete hir lecchour dighte hire al the nyght,
And let her lecher copulate with her all the night,
768   Whan that the corps lay in the floor upright.
When the corpse lay in the floor flat on its back.
769   And somme han dryve nayles in hir brayn,
And some have driven nails in their brains,
770   Whil that they slepte, and thus they had hem slayn.
While they slept, and thus they had them slain.
771   Somme han hem yeve poysoun in hire drynke.
Some have given them poison in their drink.
772   He spak moore harm than herte may bithynke,
He spoke more harm than heart may imagine,
773   And therwithal he knew of mo proverbes
And concerning this he knew of more proverbs
774   Than in this world ther growen gras or herbes.
Than in this world there grow grass or herbs.
775    $B e t i s,' q u o d h e,$ thyn habitacioun

B e e r i s,' h e s a i d,

thy habitation
776   Be with a leon or a foul dragoun,
Be with a lion or a foul dragon,
777   Than with a womman usynge for to chyde.
Than with a woman accustomed to scold.
778   Bet is,' quod he, `hye in the roof abyde,
Better is,' he said, `to stay high in the roof,
779   Than with an angry wyf doun in the hous;
Than with an angry wife down in the house;
780   They been so wikked and contrarious,
They are so wicked and contrary,
781   They haten that hir housbondes loven ay.'
They always hate what their husbands love.'
782   He seyde, `A womman cast hir shame away,
He said, `A woman casts their shame away,
783   Whan she cast of hir smok'; and forthermo,
When she casts off her undergarment'; and furthermore,
784   `A fair womman, but she be chaast also,
`A fair woman, unless she is also chaste,
785   Is lyk a gold ryng in a sowes nose.'
Is like a gold ring in a sow's nose.'
786   Who wolde wene, or who wolde suppose,
Who would believe, or who would suppose,
787   The wo that in myn herte was, and pyne?
The woe that in my heart was, and pain?

788   And whan I saugh he wolde nevere fyne
And when I saw he would never cease
789   To reden on this cursed book al nyght,
Reading on this cursed book all night,
790   Al sodeynly thre leves have I plyght
All suddenly have I plucked three leaves
791   Out of his book, right as he radde, and eke
Out of his book, right as he read, and also
792   I with my fest so took hym on the cheke
I with my fist so hit him on the cheek
793   That in oure fyr he fil bakward adoun.
That in our fire he fell down backwards.
794   And he up stirte as dooth a wood leoun,
And he leaped up as does a furious lion,
795   And with his fest he smoot me on the heed
And with his fist he hit me on the head
796   That in the floor I lay as I were deed.
That on the floor I lay as if I were dead.
797   And whan he saugh how stille that I lay,
And when he saw how still I lay,
798   He was agast and wolde han fled his way,
He was frightened and would have fled on his way,
799   Til atte laste out of my swogh I breyde.
Until at the last out of my swoon I awoke.
800   `O! hastow slayn me, false theef?' I seyde,
`O! hast thou slain me, false thief?' I said,
801   `And for my land thus hastow mordred me?
`And for my land thus hast thou murdered me?
802   Er I be deed, yet wol I kisse thee.'
Before I am dead, yet will I kiss thee.'

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.

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

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

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."

"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."

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!

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.

"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."

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

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

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

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.

"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

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

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

Louis Menand , "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

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:

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]

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

Philip Roth, "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