karl /outliebed

Describe karl /outliebed here.

Initial Technologies/Designs/Process

• Programmed randomized video sections and tracks, triggered by switches in couch in first room
• Trigger in second room to start camera and freeze randomized images
• Interviews with as varied a population as possible about 'historical' experiences and memories
• Video based blog to discuss and archive user chosen videos

Concepts/Terms to be Explored (18th Century-NOW)

• Democracy
• Human Rights
• Technological Progress
• Capitalism/Socialism/Fascism
• Otto von Bismarck, Napoleon, Trotsky, Emmeline Pankhurst, Ronald Reagan, Juan San Martín, Frederick Douglass...
• The French Revolution
• The US Gold Rush
• Neo-Imperialism
• Yiddish and Hebrew

Writers/Works

• Hayden White
• Roland Barthes
• Hegel's The Philosophy of History
• Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History
• Rosseau's The Social Contract
• Edmund Burke/John Adams vs. Karl Marx/Frederik Engels