{"id":4,"date":"2006-08-22T10:39:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T16:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2006\/spectacle\/reading-schedule\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T10:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:09:37","slug":"reading-schedule","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2006\/spectacle\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday, August 30<br \/>\nThe Problem of Representation, from Plato to the Present<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ship.edu\/%7Ecgboeree\/platoscave.html\">The Allegory of the Cave<\/a> from Plato&#8217;s <em>The Republic<\/em>, Book VII (circa 400 B.C.)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Uniforms&#8221; by Don DeLillo (1970) (handout in class)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, September 6<br \/>\nThe Society of the Spectacle (Unmediated)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Selections from <em>Rabelais and His World<\/em> by Mikhail Bakhtin (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li>Selections from <em>The Politics and Poetics of Transgression<\/em> by Peter Stallybrass and Allon White (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Festival: Definition and Morphology&#8221; by Alessandra Falassi (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Carnival, Ritual, and Play in Rio de Janeiro&#8221; by Victor Turner (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;An American Vocabulary of Celebrations&#8221; by Roger Abrahams (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, September 13<br \/>\nThe Society of the Spectacle (Mediated)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Commodity Fetishism&#8221; by Karl Marx (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marxists.org\/reference\/archive\/adorno\/1944\/culture-industry.htm\">The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception<\/a> by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer<\/li>\n<li>The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gseis.ucla.edu\/faculty\/kellner\/papers\/medculturespectacle.html\">Media Culture and the Triumph of the Spectacle<\/a> by Douglas Kellner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, September 20<br \/>\nMythology in Spectacular Society<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I&#8221; by Jacques Lacan (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Ideological State Apparatuses&#8221; by Louis Althusser (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Simulation and Simulacra&#8221; by Jean Baudrillard (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li><em>Mythologies<\/em> by Roland Barthes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, September 27<br \/>\nPhotography, Participation, and Spectacle<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,&#8221; from Walter Benjamin&#8217;s <em>Illuminations<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History&#8221; by Eduardo Cadava (<em>Diacritics <\/em>e-journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/view\/03007162\/ap020085\/02a00090\/0?frame=noframe&amp;dpi=3&amp;userID=81ae0d04@gmu.edu\/01cc99334100501da999b&amp;backcontext=page&amp;backurl=\/cgi-bin\/jstor\/viewitem\/03007162\/ap020085\/02a00090\/2%3fframe%3dnoframe%26dpi%3d3%26userID%3d81ae0d04@gmu.edu\/0\">on campus<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/mutex.gmu.edu:2112\/cgi-bin\/jstor\/printpage\/03007162\/ap020085\/02a00090\/0?frame=noframe&amp;dpi=3&amp;userID=81ae37f5@gmu.edu\/01cce4403500501d999a7&amp;backcontext=table-of-contents&amp;backurl=\/cgi-bin\/jstor\/listjournal\/03007162\/ap020085%3fframe%3dframe%26dpi%3d3%26userID%3d81ae37f5@gmu.edu\/01cce4403500501d999a7%26config%3djstor&amp;action=download&amp;config=jstor\">off campus<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em>On Photography<\/em> by Susan Sontag<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, October 4<br \/>\nFilm, Experience, and Spectacle<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Day of the Locust<\/em> by Nathanael West<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Storyteller,&#8221; &#8220;On Some Motifs in Baudelaire,&#8221; and &#8220;Theses on the Philosophy of History&#8221; from Walter Benjamin&#8217;s <em>Illuminations<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, October 11<br \/>\nFilm, Spectacle, and Race<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Bluest Eye<\/em> by Toni Morrison<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Shirley Temple and the House of Rockefeller&#8221; by Charles Eckert (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Cuteness and Commodity Aesthetics: Tom Thumb and Shirley Temple&#8221; by Lori Merish (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li>Screening: <em>Bright Eyes<\/em> (1934) (Johnson Center Reserve)<\/li>\n<li>* Mid-semester Essay *<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, October 18<br \/>\nFilm, Spectacle and Race<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Bluest Eye<\/em> Continued<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Of Other Spaces&#8221; by Michel Foucault (<em>Diacritics <\/em>e-journal <a href=\"http:\/\/links.jstor.org\/sici?sici=0300-7162%28198621%2916%3A1%3C22%3AOOS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F\">on campus access<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/mutex.gmu.edu:2112\/view\/03007162\/ap020061\/02a00020\/0?frame=noframe&amp;userID=81ae37f5@gmu.edu\/01cce4403500501da1b04&amp;dpi=3&amp;config=jstor\">off campus access<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartelby.net\/114\/1.html\">Of Our Spiritual Strivings<\/a> from W.E.B. DuBois&#8217;s <em>The Souls of Black Folk<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Fact of Blackness&#8221; from Franz Fanon&#8217;s Black Skin, White Masks (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li>Screening: <em>Imitation of Life<\/em> (1934) (Johnson Center Reserve)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, October 25<br \/>\nRepetition, Death, and Spectacle<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Death Rampant! Readers Rejoice&#8221; by Alexander Cockburn (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li>Selections from <em>The Philosophy of Andy Warhol<\/em> by Andy Warhol (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li><em>Andy Warhol<\/em>, ed. Annette Michelson<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Allan McCollum: Repetition &amp; Difference&#8221; by Craig Owens (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Portraits of People with AIDS&#8221; by Douglas Crimp (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, November 1<br \/>\nCrowds, Spectacle, and Death<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Mao II<\/em> by Don DeLillo<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelemming.com\/lemming\/dissertation-web\/home\/poe-man-of-the-crowd.html\">The Man of the Crowd<\/a> by Edgar Allan Poe<\/li>\n<li>Selections from <em>The Crowd <\/em>by Gustave Le Bon (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li>Selections from <em>Crowds and Power <\/em>by Elias Canetti (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, November 8<br \/>\nCelebrity, Spectacle, and Death<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Mao II <\/em>Continued<\/li>\n<li>Selections from <em>American Magic and Dread <\/em>by Mark Osteen (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Writer as a Celebrity: Some Aspects of American Literature as Popular Culture&#8221; by John Cawelti in <em>Studies in American Fiction <\/em>(e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Mass Public and the Mass Subject&#8221; by Michael Warner from <em>Habermas and the Public Sphere<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/mutex.gmu.edu:2048\/login?url=http:\/\/www.netLibrary.com\/urlapi.asp?action=summary&amp;v=1&amp;bookid=48445\">e-book<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, November 15<br \/>\nSpectacle and War<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Selections from <em>War and Cinema<\/em> by Paul Virilio (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li>Selections from <em>The Vision Machine<\/em> by Paul Virilio (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to <em>The Body in Pain<\/em> by Elaine Scarry (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li>R<em>egarding the Pain of Others<\/em> by Susan Sontag<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, November 29<br \/>\nNew Media Spectacle<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;A Rape in Cyberspace; Or, How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society&#8221; by Julian Dibbell from Flame Wars (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collisiondetection.net\/mt\/archives\/2004\/05\/game_theories_m.html\">Game Theories<\/a> by Clive Thompson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/11.01\/gaming.html\">The Unreal Estate Boom<\/a> by Julian Dibbell in Wired<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Satellite and Cyber Visualities&#8221; by Lisa Parks, from The Visual Culture Reader (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/iat.ubalt.edu\/moulthrop\/hypertexts\/pax\/\">PAX: An Instrument<\/a> by Stuart Moulthrop<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/%7Eiareview\/mainpages\/new\/oct05\/bomargene\/bomargene.htm\">The Bomar Gene<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thediagram.com\/3_6\/nelson\/conversation.html\">Conversation<\/a> by Jason Nelson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\">Second Life<\/a> by Linden Lab<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, December 6<br \/>\n9\/11 and Spectacle<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fredric Jameson, Slavoj \u017di\u017eek, Susan Willis, Jean Baudrillard, John Milbank, and Frank Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe on September 11, 2001, in the <em>South Atlantic Quarterly<\/em>, 101.2, Spring 2002 (e-journal <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/south_atlantic_quarterly\/toc\/saq101.2.html\">on campus<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/mutex.gmu.edu:2158\/journals\/south_atlantic_quarterly\/toc\/saq101.2.html\">off campus<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/departments\/generalfiction\/story\/0,6000,623732,00.html\">In the Ruins of the Future<\/a> by Don DeLillo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n* Final Research Paper Due Wednesday, December 13 *<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, August 30 The Problem of Representation, from Plato to the Present The Allegory of the Cave from Plato&#8217;s The Republic, Book VII (circa 400 B.C.) &#8220;The Uniforms&#8221; 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