{"id":5,"date":"2005-08-16T22:10:38","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T02:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/reading-schedule\/"},"modified":"2005-11-02T17:22:01","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T21:22:01","slug":"schedule","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week 1 – Tuesday, August 30<\/strong>
The Question of Postmodernism in music, art, architecture, literature, and film \t <\/p>\n

Week 2 – Tuesday, September 6\t <\/strong>
The Crying of Lot<\/em> 49 by Thomas Pynchon
“Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logical of Late Capitalism” by Fredric Jameson in the Course Reader (CR) \t <\/p>\n

Week 3 – Tuesday, September 13\t<\/strong>
The Lathe of Heaven <\/em>by Ursula Le Guin
Chapter 3 of The Condition of Postmodernity<\/em> by David Harvey, pages 39-65 (CR) \t <\/p>\n

Week 4 – Tuesday, September 20\t <\/strong>
The Intuitionist <\/em>by Colson Whitehead
"Postmodern Blackness"<\/a> by bell hooks (from Postmodern Culture<\/em>) \t <\/p>\n

Week 5 – Tuesday, September 27\t<\/strong>
Memento <\/em>(Dir. Christopher Nolan)
“Individual Spaces and Times in Social Life” in The Condition of Postmodernity<\/em> by David Harvey, pages 218-225, and also excerpts from Chapter 22: “Fordist Modernism Versus Flexible Postmodernism,” pages 338-342 (CR) <\/p>\n

Week 6 – Tuesday, October 4\t<\/strong>
The Female Man <\/em>by Joanna Russ
“A Cyborg Manifesto” by Donna Haraway (CR) <\/p>\n

Week 7 – Tuesday, October 11\t\t <\/strong>
No Class: Monday-Tuesday Switch Day
Begin reading Song of Solomon and work on mid-semester essay \t <\/p>\n

Week 8 – Tuesday, October 18\t <\/strong>
Song of Solomon <\/em>by Toni Morrison
* Mid-semester essay due * \t <\/p>\n

Week 9 – Tuesday, October 25\t <\/strong>
Film Screening In-Class
"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” by Walter Benjamin (CR) \t <\/p>\n

Week 10 – Tuesday, November 1\t\t <\/strong>
Dream Jungle <\/em>by Jessica Hagedorn
“Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?” by Kwame Anthony Appiah <\/p>\n

Week 11 – Tuesday, November 8\t <\/strong>
Hegirascope<\/a> (1997) and Pax<\/a> (2003) by Stuart Moulthrop
“Simulacra and Simulations” by Jean Baudrillard (CR)
Machinima<\/a>
Database culture (Mark Poster on e-reserve<\/a>, Claritas’s You Are Where You Live<\/a>) \t <\/p>\n

Week 12 – Tuesday, November 15\t <\/strong>
White Noise <\/em>by Don DeLillo \t\t <\/p>\n

Week 13 – Tuesday, November 22\t\t <\/strong>
Donnie Darko <\/em>(Dir. Richard Kelly) \t <\/p>\n

Week 14 – Tuesday, November 29\t\t <\/strong>
Fight Club <\/em>by Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club <\/em>(Dir. David Fincher)
“Private Satisfactions and Public Disorders: Fight Club<\/em>, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Masculine Violence” by Henry Giroux, (Course Reader) \t\t <\/p>\n

Week 15 – Tuesday, December 6\t\t <\/strong>
In the Shadow of No Towers <\/em>by Art Spiegelman \t <\/p>\n

* Final Paper due Tuesday, December 13 *<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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