https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/gothic-nightmares-fuseli-blake-and-romantic-imagination
This course is an elective. It is your responsibility to read through this schedule page and determine whether or not any of the material is objectionable. If it is, then please drop the course. If you do take the course, you are required to do all assigned readings and films. I read, teach, and write about literature, philosophy, and film out of joy. I live to learn, and I try to learn how to live. I'm not sure I ever will. I keep learning words. I keep learning French. I will teach you how to use words to communicate better, not tell you which words are forbidden. Some words are, of course, taboo. You learned most of them by the time you were two. None of us would even consider using them in class. It's called socialization.
I considered myself an adult when I went to college at age 18 way back in 1972. Professors and graduate student T.A.s felt the same way: their students were adults. I had to register for the draft at age 17 and could have been drafted at age 18 and then sent to Viet Nam if I hadn't gone to college. I would have been insulted if any professor or T.A. told me I might feel a negative way about a film or a book before I'd had a chance to see it or read it myself. I was sometimes upset by a film I saw or a book I read. I still am. I felt and still feel that being disturbed by literature or film was part of learning and learning how to live. And I didn't think then--and I still don't now--that talking about it necessarily makes it any less emotionally disturbing. Let me repeat: This course is an elective. You are not required to take it. It is your responsibility to look through the schedule now (the first day of class) to determine if there are any materials you find objectionable. If you do, drop the class now. Thank you.
Why you should absolutely be for free speech. Srsly.
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."
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."
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 PERSON VS. THE ARTIST
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
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
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"
Sigmund Freud,The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Chapter Nine, "Symptomatic and Chance Actions" and Chapter Ten, "Errors."
Required Reading: Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Sections 1-IV (1 though IV, including IV). Bring a copy of the book in print or a print out on paper to class (Kindles, iphones, lap top computers, etc., will not be allowed.
Required Reading: Edgar Allen Poe, "The Purloined Letter"
Required Reading: Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Sections V-VI (the rest of the book). Bring a copy of the book in print or a print out on paper to class (Kindles, iphones, lap top computers, etc will not be allowed). Recommended: Sigmund Freud, "A Note upon the Mystic Writing Pad"
Required Reading: Jacques Derrida, "To Speculate--On 'Freud'" in The Post Card, 257-291 ("1. Notices (Warnings"). Bring a copy of the book in print or a print out a copy on paper and bring it with you to class (Kindles, iphones, lap top computers, etc., will not be allowed).
Recommended: Jacques Derrida, "Differance"; Jacques Derrida, "The Parergon"
Required Reading: Jacques Lacan, "Seminar on the Purloined Letter" (click on link to left for pdf)
Sigmund Freud, "The Uncanny"
Recommended Readings: (T.B.R.S.,P.) Wilhelm Jentsch, "The Uncanny" ; E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Sandman; Ernst Mach, Analyse der Empfindungen (The Analysis of Sensationsand the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical), cited
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."
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
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
Theodor Adorno, " Behind the Mirror" in Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
