Week Five: Urban Space, Capitalism and Discipline Tuesday September 19: Michel Foucault, of the pp. 47-57 in Discipline and Punish; “Spectacle Scaffold,” Michel Foucault, pp. 135-169 in Discipline and Punish “Docile Bodies,” Thursday September 21: Sayyad, "Orwellian Modernity" Week Six: City Imaginations II: The Urbanization of Consciousness Tuesday September 26: and Modern Life: Baudelaire and the pp. Michele Hannoosh, “Painters Impressionists,” 168-188, in Visions of the Modern City Thursday September 28: Walter Benjamin, Susan Buck-Mors, excerpts Week Seven: City Imaginations III: The Modern City and Order/Disorder: Acting and Detecting, Reading the City and Policing the City Tuesday October 3: Philip Fisher, Matter, City City as “City Minds”; Peter Brooks, “The Text” Thursday October 5: Peter Stallybrass and Allon White, City: The Sewer, The Gaze and The “The pp. 125-148, in Contaminating Touch,” The Politics and Poetics of Transgression Week Eight: The gendered City: Women and Modern Urban Space Tuesday October 10: Elizabeth Wilson, City of the pp. 47-64, in The Sphinx in the City “The Floating World,” Thursday October 12: in Just Looking Rachel Bowlby: “Starring: Dreiser’s Sister Carrie,” pp, 52-65, Week Nine: Modernism and the Urban Imaginations : The City, Destruction and War Tuesday October 17: in Anthony Vidler, “Framing Infinity: Le Corbusier”; Marshall Berman, “Robert Moses,” All that Is Solid Melts into Air; “How Baltimore became Baltimore” Thursday October 19: Modernism and Ruins in East and “Form Follows Function: West”; Guardian, "Pruitt-Igoe" DUE DATE MID-TERM EXAM Week Ten: Cities, the Suburb and Consumerism Tuesday October 24:
Week Five: Urban Space, Capitalism and Discipline Tuesday September 19: Michel Foucault, “Spectacle of the Scaffold,” pp. 47-57 in Discipline and Punish; Michel Foucault, “Docile Bodies,” pp. 135-169 in Discipline and Punish Thursday September 21: Sayyad, "Orwellian Modernity" Week Six: City Imaginations II: The Urbanization of Consciousness Tuesday September 26: Michele Hannoosh, “Painters and Modern Life: Baudelaire and the Impressionists,” pp. 168-188, in Visions of the Modern City Thursday September 28: Walter Benjamin, Susan Buck-Mors, excerpts Week Seven: City Imaginations III: The Modern City and Order/Disorder: Acting and Detecting, Reading the City and Policing the City Tuesday October 3: Philip Fisher, “City Matter, City Minds”; Peter Brooks, “The City as Text” Thursday October 5: Peter Stallybrass and Allon White, “The City: The Sewer, The Gaze and The Contaminating Touch,” pp. 125-148, in The Politics and Poetics of Transgression Week Eight: The gendered City: Women and Modern Urban Space Tuesday October 10: Elizabeth Wilson, “The City of the Floating World,” pp. 47-64, in The Sphinx in the City Thursday October 12: Rachel Bowlby: “Starring: Dreiser’s Sister Carrie,” pp, 52-65, in Just Looking Week Nine: Modernism and the Urban Imaginations : The City, Destruction and War Tuesday October 17: Anthony Vidler, “Framing Infinity: Le Corbusier”; Marshall Berman, “Robert Moses,” in All that Is Solid Melts into Air; “How Baltimore became Baltimore” Thursday October 19: “Form Follows Function: Modernism and Ruins in East and West”; Guardian, "Pruitt-Igoe" DUE DATE MID-TERM EXAM Week Ten: Cities, the Suburb and Consumerism Tuesday October 24:
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