December 2013

December 3 — Bring an image from Avant Garde Again? paper to class

We will use the following essays to revisit the central ideas of the course

Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino.  “Towards a Third Cinema.”

Oswaldo de Andrade, “The Cannibalist Manifesto”

Frantz Fanon.  “On National Culture.”  In The Wretched of the Earth.

December 5 — Let us know of images/clips you want us to discuss

We will use the following essays to revisit the central ideas of the course.

Guy Debord.  “Perspectives for Conscious Changes in Everyday Life.”  Situationist International Online (1962).

Aime Cesaire.  “Return to My Native Land.”  ER.

Henry Lefebvre.  “The Right to the City.”  In Writings on Cities: Henry Lefebvre, selected and translated by Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas (London: Blackwell, 1996), 147-159.  ER.

Martin Jay. “Scopic Regimes of Modernity.”  In Vision and Visuality, edited by Hal Foster (New York: Bay Press, 1988), 3-23.  ER.

December 12 — From 12 pm at OCH 206 (our regular classroom)

Presentation of final group projects over lunch

December 13

Final projects due via moodle
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