If there is no assignment listed on this page, just do the three questions for each of the assigned readings and / or film on the schedule page and email them to me at [email protected] by midnight the day before the class during which we'll discuss the reading. Please remember to put your name at the bottom of the email, after the three (or more, depending on the number of readings or films) questions.

For Thursday, Sepember 11, your annotated film clip analysis is due. As ususal, please email me three question on the film (Feardotcom) [email protected] .

For Tuesday, September 9, read pages 251-71 and 364-67 of The Telephone Book. If you don't want to buy the book, you'll need to xerox these pages and bring them to class as we'll be going over them closely in class discussion. (If you buy the book, and I think it is worth owning, just bring it to class.) Email three questions on the reading to me at [email protected] . Please remember to put your name at the bottom of the email, after the three questions.

For Thursday, September 4, please email me three questions on The Mothman Prophecies. [email protected]

For Tuesday, September 2, we will be placing a "collect-ive" call to The Telephone Book. I'll divide you up in class into five groups. Each group will report a five minute presentation you will give to the class on your reading of pages in The Telephone Book I'll assign in class in addition to the User's Manual (Forget about reading pp. 1-45) and the hand out from Jean Laplanche and J. Pontalis's The Language of Psychoanalysis. Each group will exchange emails in class and then communicate by email, and you should create your own mini-listserv with all of your emails and mine ([email protected]). Each group will have a leader (a volunteer or someone appointed by me) who will organize the presentation. Every member should send three emails : first, by Saturday before class, email your notes on your reading to the group; second, by Sunday before class, each of you should send comments to two people in your group (the two whose names come right after your last name alphabetically; after the leader synthesizes these comments she or he will send out a draft of the presentation to the group for further comment by Monday at noon; your third email will be you last, and a comment on the presentation by Monday at 7. In class, each of you will have ten to fifteen minutes to present.

Note: A copy of The Telephone Book is on two hour reserve in the west library. If necessary, you can xerox the relevant pages there.

Group A reads the index entries in The Telephone Book for ambivalence, automatic writing, Transference, Uncanny, and Unconscious. (You'll need to look up the pages.)

Group B reads the index entries in The Telephone Book for television, telegraph, distance and mediation. (You'll need to look up the pages.)

Group C reads the entries in The Telephone Book for telephone, phoniness, photautograph, and mouth. (You'll need to look up the pages.)

Group D reads the entries in The Telephone Book for Freud. (You'll need to look up the pages.)

Group E reads the enrties in The Telephone Book for Call and technology. (You'll need to look up the pages.)