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Subsequent responses
to the initial positions can be posted throughout the week. I have retained
the position responses from the 2007 version of this course for your
examination; you may want to look at some of these responses from earlier
students to get an idea of the typical style and conventions of the
position response.
Note: Some of the
readings and webcasts below are from books or videos that are in copyright.
These will be made available to students through a password-protected
system of "electronic reserve." Passwords will be sent to students through
private email.
Historical Background:
Culture and Modernity
Economic
Developments of Modernity (Youtube
Version )
Philosophical
Paradigms of Modernity
(Youtube
Version )
Political Systems of Modernity
(Youtube Version
)
The Social Subject of Modernity (Youtube
Version )
Social
Functions of Art in Modernity (Youtube
Version )
David Harvey, from The Condition
of Postmodernity
Powerpoints
of Diagrams on History of Modernity
The Concept of
Culture: June 16
The Concept of Culture in Modernity (Youtube
Version)
bell hooks, "Cultural
Criticism and Transformation, part I"
bell hooks, "Cultural
Criticism and Transformation, part II"
bell hooks, "Cultural
Criticism and Transformation, part III"
Philip Smith, Cultural Theory, pp. 1-21
Raymond Williams, "Culture"
from Keywords
Suggested
Further Reading:
Simon During, Cultural Studies, pp. 5-44
Historical Materialism:
June 17
Intro to
Historical Materialism (text)
Intro
to Historical Materialism (webcast)
(Youtube Version)
From
The German Ideology, (Materialist Conception of History)
Base and Superstructure:
June 18
Intro to Base
and Superstructure (text)
Intro
to Base and Superstructure (webcast)
(Youtube Version)
Preface
to A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy
From
he German Ideology, (Preface)
From
The German Ideology, (Civil Society and History)
Suggested Further Reading:
Raymond Williams, from Marxism and Literature, pp.
11-44
The Labor Theory
of Value and Labor Power: June 19
Intro
to Labor Power and Surplus Value -
- (Youtube
Version)
Intro to Labor
Power and Surplus Value (text)
From Capital, Vol I, Ch. 6 (Labor-Power)
From Capital, Vol I, Ch. 7 (Surplus
Value)
The Commodity Form and Commodity Fetishism: June 20
Intro
to the Commodity Form (webcast) (Youtube
Version)
Capital,
Vol I, Ch. 1 Sec. 1 (Commodities: Use-Value and Value)
Capital,
Vol I, Ch. 1 Sec. 2 (Labor Embodied in Commodities)
Capital,
Vol I, Ch. 1 Sec. 4 (Fetishism of Commodities)
Questions
for First Reading Response (due by 8 am June 23)
Frankfurt School
Critical Theory
Cultural as Ideology: June 23
Intro
to the Frankfurt School (webcast) (Youtube
Version)
Read Philip Smith, Cultural Theory, pp. 37-57
Art and Culture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction:
June 24
Walter Benjamin, The Work
of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno from Dialectic
of Enlightenment
Cultural Hegemony
and Ideology
Althusser's Structuralist Marxism: June 25
Intro
to Ideology (webcast) (Youtube
Version)
Intro to
Ideology (text)
From The
German Ideology, "Idealism and Materialism"
Louis Althusser, "Ideology
and Ideological State Apparatuses" (from Lenin and Philosophy
and Other Essays, London: Monthly Review Press, 1971), esp. pp.
127-48; 177-86
Suggested Further
Reading:
Dave Harris' Reading Guide
to Althusser's ISA Essay
Synopsis
of "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"
British Cultural
Studies
British Cultural Studies: June 26
British Cultural Studies
(webcast) (Youtube
Version)
Philip Smith, Cultural Theory, pp. 151-66
Competing Paradigms: June 27
Stuart Hall, "Cultural
Studies: Two Paradigms"
Stuart Hall: "Representation
and the Media"
Questions
for Second Reading Response (due by 8 am June 30)
Identity Politics Theories
Critical
Race Theory: July 1
Stuart Hall: "Race: the Floating
Signifier"
Ted Allen, "Summary
of ... The Invention of the White Race," Part I
Ted Allen, "Summary of ... The
Invention of the White Race," Part II
Suggested Further
Reading:
Gregory Meyerson,
"Marxism, Psychoanalysis and Labor
Competition"
Gregory Meyerson and Jonathan Scott, "An
Interview with Theodore W. Allen"
Feminist Theory
and Cultural Studies
Humanist and Materialist Feminism : July
2
Virginia Woolf, "A
Room of One's Own"
Intro to Materialist
Feminism (webcast)
(Youtube
Version)
Intro to Materialist Feminism
(text)
Simone de Beauvoir, The
Second Sex: "Introduction"
Simone de Beauvoir, The
Second Sex: Ch. 1: "Biology"
Psychoanalysis
and Feminism: July 3
Simone de Beauvoir, The
Second Sex: Ch. 2: "Psychoanalysis"
Laura Mulvey, "Visual
Pleasures and Narrative Cinema "
Philip Smith, Cultural Theory, pp. 202-213
Suggested
Further Reading:
Simon During, Cultural Studies, pp. 171-189
Marc Fonda's
Synopsis of Freud's Three Essays
on Sexuality
Terry Eagleton, "Psychoanalysis"
from Literary
Theory
F. Engels, The
Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Mary
Klages, on Academic Feminism
July 4: No Class,
and No Virtual Class
Questions
for Third Reading Response (due by 8 am July 7)
Week Four: Postmodernism,
Postmodernity and Globalization
Modernism/Postmodernism:
July 7
Intro to Modernism/Postmodernism
Philip Smith, Cultural Theory, pp. 214-32
The
Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: July 8
Fredric Jameson, "The Cultural
Logic of Late Capitalism."
Suggested Further
Reading:
Synopsis
of "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism"
Postmodernism,
Postmodernity and Globalization: July 9
Fredric Jameson, What's
Left of Theory? (Part
I)
Simon During,
Cultural Studies, pp. 81-105
Globalization
and Neoliberalism: July 10
David Harvey, from A
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Questions
for Fourth
Reading Response: (due
by 8 am July 14)
Graduate Students: Formal Paper Due July 24
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