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W 8/31 |
- Introduction
- Object:
- Laszlo Moholoy-Nagy, Dynamic of the Metropolis (1921/22/27)
- Reading:
- Kern, The Culture of Time and Space. 10-35. 131-180.
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Week
2: Subjective Vision / Mobile Vision |
W 9/7 |
- Object:
- Adolph Menzel, Balcony Room (1845)
- Reading:
- Crary, Techniques of the Observer. 1-25. 67-137.
[ERES]
- Friedberg, “The Mobilized and Virtual Gaze in Modernity.”
15-38. [ERES]
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Week
3: Walking: The Nineteenth-Century Flaneur |
W 9/14 |
- Object:
- Charles Baudelaire, “A une passante” [ERES]
- Reading:
- Benjamin, “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire” [ERES]
- Benjamin, “[M:] The Flaneur” [ERES]
- Gleber, The Art of Taking a Walk. 23-42. 129-170.
[ERES]
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W 9/21 |
- Objects:
- Gerhard Hauptmann, Bahnwärter Thiel / Lineman
Thiel (1888)
- William Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed--The Great Western
Railway (1844)
- Adolph Menzel, Berlin-Potsdam Railway (1847)
- Adolph Menzel, Traveling through the Countryside (1892)
- Reading:
- Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey. 1-45. 52-88.
113-170.
- Kirby, Parallel Tracks. 19-74.
[ERES]
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Week
5: Photography / Chronophotography |
W 9/28 |
- Objects:
- Selected nineteenth- and early twentieth century photographs
- Etienne-Jules Marey, Schenkel, Long Jump (1886)
- Etienne-Jules Marey, Morin, Walk (1886)
- Series Photography by Eadweard Muybridge
- Reading:
- Benjamin, "Little History of Photography" [ERES]
- Cadava, Words of Light. 3-13. 47-63. 87-97. 128. [ERES]
- Doane, “Temporality, Storage,
Legibility: Freud, Marey, and the Cinema” [ERES]
- Braun, Picturing Time. 42-149. [ERES]
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Week
6: Perception, Duration, Motion: Henri Bergson |
W 10/5 |
- Reading:
- Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory. 9-177.
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M 10/11 |
- Screening: Films by Lumiere Brothers, Melies, Ruttmann and Richter
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W 10/12 |
- Objects :
- Auguste and Louis Lumiere, Workers Leaving the Factory
(1895)
- Auguste and Louis Lumiere, Arrival of a Train at La
Ciotat (1895)
- Auguste and Louis Lumiere, Photograph (1895)
- Auguste and Louis Lumiere, The Sprinkler Sprinkled
- Auguste and Louis Lumiere, Promenade of Ostriches, Paris
Botanical Gardens (1896)
- Auguste and Louis Lumiere, New York, Brooklyn Bridge
(1896)
- Auguste and Louis Lumiere, New York: Broadway
at Union Square (1896)
- Georges Melies, A Trip to the Moon (1902)
- Walter Ruttmann, Opus I (1922)
- Hans Richter, Ghosts before Breakfast (1927)
- Reading:
- Gunning, “An Aesthetics of Astonishment: Early Film
and the (In)Credulous Spectator” [ERES]
- Deleuze, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image. 1-70. [ERES]
- Charney, Empty Moments: Cinema, Modernity, and Drift.
67-88. [ERES]
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W 10/19 |
- Reading:
- Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and the General
Theory
- ESSAY 1 due
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Week
9: Movement, Speed, and the “Disintegration” of Form |
W 10/26 |
- Objects:
- Paul Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire (various versions)
- Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending the Stairway (1912)
- Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (1912)
- Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
(1913)
- Giacomo Balla, Mercury Passing in Front of the Sun (1914)
- Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife (1919)
- Herbert Bayer, Lonely Metropolitan (1932)
- Pablo Picasso, Guernica (1937)
- Reading:
- Marinetti, “The New Religion-Morality of Speed”
[ERES]
- Kern, The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918.
181-210.
- Gombrich, “Ambiguities of the Third Dimension”
[ERES]
- Mitchell, “Space and Time: Lessing’s Laocoon
and the Politics of Genre”
[ERES]
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W 11/2 |
- Objects:
- Franz Kafka, The Aeroplanes at Brescia (1909) [ERES]
- Kasimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition: Airplane
Flying (1915)
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, The Pope’s Monoplane:
Political Novel in Free Prose (1912) [ERES]
- Reading:
- Kern, The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918.
241-258.
- Demetz, The Air Show at Brescia, 1909. 149-185.
[ERES]
- Malevich, "From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism:
The New Realism in Painting" [ERES]
- Malevich, "Non-Objective Art and Suprematism"
[ERES]
- Malevich, "The Question of Imitative Art" [ERES]
- Marinetti, “Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature”
[ERES]
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Week
11: The Speed of War |
W 11/9 |
- Object:
- Ernst Jünger, In Stahlgewittern / Storm of Steel
(1920)
- Reading:
- Kern, The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918.
259-312.
- Hüppauf, “Experiences of
Modern Warfare and the Crisis of Representation”
[ERES]
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Week
12: Political Mobilization |
M 11/15 |
- Screening: Triumph of the Will (1935, dir. Leni Riefenstahl)
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W 11/16 |
- Objects:
- Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will (1935)
- Ernst Jünger, "Total Mobilization" [ERES]
- Reading:
- Paul Virilio, Speed & Politics. 000-000.
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Week
13: Thanksgiving Break |
W 11/23 |
- Thanksgiving Break: No class
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M 11/29 |
- Screening: Detour (1945, dir. Edgar Ulmer)
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W 11/30 |
- Objects:
- Edgar Ulmer, Detour (1945)
- Giacomo Balla, Speeding Automobile and Lights (1913)
- Paul Strand, Wire Wheel (1920)
- Anton Stankowski, Zeitprotokoll mit Auto (1929)
- Michel Butor, Mobile. i-ix. 5-15. 52-69. [ERES]
- Reading:
- Marinetti, "The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism"
[ERES]
- Dimendberg, “The Will to Motorization: Cinema, Highways,
and Modernity” [ERES]
- Ross, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies.
15-70. [ERES]
- Bel Geddes, Magic Motorways. 1-42. 105-122. 221-247.
[ERES]
- Silk, “The Automobile in Art” [ERES]
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W 12/7 |
- Objects:
- Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History”
(1940) [ERES]
- Peter Handke, Die Lehre der Sainte-Victoire (1980)
- ESSAY 2 due
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