courses /spring 06 /danm 203 /schedule

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week 1 – questions

TH – April 6 – overview/schedule of individual meetings on Thursday, April 13 – develop questionnaire for interviews

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week 2 - dialogues

TH – April 13 – individual meetings as scheduled

Prepare answers to questions for interview

Readings due – Agamben

Begin Exercise 1 - Excavation/analysis of the boundaries between the public and private – a definition of your public and private boundaries – what makes you a citizen or denizen – document/represent your own formal, legal, personal identity in relation to your nation-state, community and professional pursuits, document what you own vs. what you use, where you live, what are your resources, where do your resources originate, what are your rights, why are these things your rights? – this will form be a point of departure for your essay

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week 3 – motives | emotions

TH – April 20 - seminar – Motives and Emotions (rationales for points of contact or surface articulations) – intimacy, compassion, fear, desire, will (to power, independence, fairness/equality, etc.), shame, pride, narcissism

readings due – Berlant, Berlant, Taussig, Wilson, de Certeau

complete exercise 1

Begin Exercise 2 – create an edited version of your interview recording. This may take the form of text and image or audio and image or audio only. You may use additional source material and you may include elements from exercise 1 – this exercise will is intended as a point of departure for your “synthesis”.

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week 4 – strategies | tactics

TH- April 27 - seminar – dialogue|dialogism, communication|collaboration, appropriation, excavation (psychoanalytic and socio-political), ethnographic, anarchic, witnessing, intervention

readings due –

Foucault, Barthes, Friere, Aronowitz Part 1, Part 2, Oliver, Eglash

complete exercise 2

begin exercise 3 – following Paolo Friere’s process of articulation create a Frierian codification – this will provide a point of departure for your project proposals

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week 5 - forms

TH – May 4 – seminar – archive, database, narrative, possibility space, testimony, diary, anecdote, allegory, game

readings due –

Hayles, Brooks, Gallop, Taussig, Byatt

complete exercise 3 as draft of project proposal

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week 6 – forms (cont’d)

TH – May 11 – seminar – memorial, monument, museum, network, community (inclusive of governance and social decision making), collective, resistance, critique

readings due –

Daniels, Benjamin, Jameson Taussig, Roy/Ghandi,

complete proposal draft

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week 7 – consequences

TH – May 18 – seminar - unmasking

readings due –

Beverly, Sekula, Jameson, Taussig, Benajmin

draft of essay due

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week 8

TH – May 25 – individual meetings/lab for creation of “synthesis” as follows:

• 11:00 --> Alana
• 11:30 --> Nici
• 12:00 --> Tyler
• 12:30 --> Al
• 1:00 --> no.e
• 1:30 --> James
• 2:00 --> Darryl
• 2:30 --> Cynthia
• 3:00 --> Sumit

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week 9

TH – June 1 – individual meetings/lab for creation of “synthesis” as follows:

• 11:00 --> Alana
• 11:30 --> Darryl
• 12:00 --> Tyler
• 12:30 --> Al
• 1:00 --> no.e
• 1:30 --> Nici
• 2:00 --> James
• 2:30 --> Cynthia
• 3:00 --> Sumit

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week 10

TH – June 8 – student presentations

submit final essays, proposals in synthesized form final deadline TBA