Welcome back! We look forward to seeing you at the Space and Culture Research Group.
Space and Culture Spring Social24 April 2008
4 April 2008 12 noon
StoryCubes Event:
Space and Culture Research Group invited to attend a special art event hosted by UK new media/community-based artists Giles Lane & Orlaugh Woods. At 12 noon on Friday April 4th, the artists will be delivering a lecture on "StoryCubes" at Enterprise Square, Edmonton.
Following the lecture, at 4 pm, there will be a Storycube-making activity led by the artists at the iHuman Studio, also downtown, Edmonton.
Space and Culture Excursion and Discussion: Thursday March 27th at 5:15 pm: The Space and Culture Research Group is invited to attend visiting speaker Henry Giroux's lecture entitled "Higher Education Beyond Neoliberalism and the Politics of Disposability," which he will be presenting as the last guest lecture in this year's Dialogue on the Arts in the 21st Century. Friday March 28th at 1 pm: The group will meet to discuss Giroux's lecture as well as Giroux's related article:"Cultural Studies and the Politics of Public Pedagogy: Making the Political More Pedagogical." (in parallax, 2004, vol. 10, no. 2, 73–89).27 & 28 March 2008
Space and Culture Excursions: 10-11 am: Timms Centre Lobby (University of Alberta) - Performance by artist and curator Judy Freya Sibayan 12-2 pm: Drawing studio (next to Powerplant, University of Alberta) - MFA/MDES Graduate Group Art Crits. 14 March 2008 at 10-2 pm
Flusser, Vilém. The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design. Reaktion Books: London, 1999. We will be continuing discussion of this text (p. 49 onward). 29 February 2008
Flusser, Vilém. The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design. Reaktion Books: London, 1999. We will be discussing the text in its entirety.8 February 2008
30 November 2007
Flusser, Vilém. The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design. Reaktion Books: London, 1999.
We will be discussing pages 17-29 (first two sections) of this text.
*Note: Due to difficulty obtaining sufficient copies of the text for this meeting, we will begin discussing Vilém Flusser's A Philosophy of Photography the first meeting of Winter Term on Friday January 11th, 2008. (We hope this will give participants the chance to order this text in advance).
16 November 2007
Perniola, Mario. Sex Appeal of the Inorganic: Philosophies of Desire in the Modern World. Trans. Massimo Verdicchio. New York: Continuum, 2004.
We will be hosting Dr. Massimo Verdiccio, translator of Mario Perniola's The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic for a discussion of this text.
2 November 2007
Perniola, Mario. Sex Appeal of the Inorganic: Philosophies of Desire in the Modern World. Trans. Massimo Verdicchio. New York: Continuum, 2004.
We are discussing pages 71-144 (chapters 16-27) of the text.
Supplementary Reading (available @ Space and Culture office, HM Tory 4-27): Heidegger, Martin. "The Origin of the Work of Art" and "The Thing." Poetry, Language, Thought. Trans. Albert Hofstadter. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
19 October 2007
Perniola, Mario. Sex Appeal of the Inorganic: Philosophies of Desire in the Modern World. Trans. Massimo Verdicchio. New York: Continuum, 2004.
We are discussing pages 21-70 (chapters 8-15 ) of the text.
28 September 2007
Perniola, Mario. Sex Appeal of the Inorganic: Philosophies of Desire in the Modern World. Trans. Massimo Verdicchio. New York: Continuum, 2004.
We are discussing the first 20 pages (chapters 1-7) of the text.
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30 November 2006
@ 11am - 1pm, Tory 1-81. Videoconference with Rob Shields and his discussion group in Salvador, Brazil. Look for some more details and resources here.
November 17 2006
Benjamin, W. The Task of the Translator. For those who have Benjamin's 'Illuminations' or 'Selected writings' in 4 volumes (you need the first volume), you'll find the essay there.
Additoinal: Taussig, M. Walter Benjamin's Grave, excerpts
November 3 2006
Taussig, M. 'Language of Flowers' continued.
*Additional: Benjamin, W. News about Flowers
October 20 2006
Taussig, M. Language of Flowers. (PDF)
*Additional: Thomas Hardy, The Withered Arm. (Word file)
October 6 2006
Kristeva, J. Holbein's Dead Christ. (PDF) In: Kristeva, J. (1992). Black sun. Here is The Dead Christ by Holbein. (pic)
*Additional: Beardsworth, Sara (2005). Freud's Oedipus and Kristeva's Narcissus: Three Heterogeneities. Hypatia, 20 (1).
Margaroni, Maria (2005). "The Lost Foundation": Kristeva's Semiotic. Hypatia 20 (1).
September 22 2006
The Bataille Reader (1997). Chapters 18, 22, 24-26. Bataille, G. Story of the eye. Capters 10 - 13. Bataille, G. The use value of D.A.F. de Sade. *Additional: Bataille, G. The Cruel Practice of Art.
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March 31 2006
Bey continued
Darnton, R. (2000). Paris: The early Internet. New York Review of Books, 47 (11), 42-47.
March 3 2006
Debray continued
Bey, H. (1991). T.A.Z. Brooklyn: Autonomedia, pp. 95-141
February 10 2006
Debray, R. (1995). The image v. language: Transmitting
symbols. Common Knowledge, 4 (2), 51-69.
January 27 2006
Lambert continued Taussig, M. (1993). Mimesis and alterity: A particular history of the senses. New York:Routledge, pp. 1-43.
January 13 2006
Lambert, G. (2003). Universal hospitality. In A. Levy & E. Cadava (Eds.) Cities without citizens (pp. 13-31). Philadelphia: Slought Foundation.
Diken, B. & Laustsen, C. B. (2002). Zones of indistinction. Space and Culture, 5 (3), 290-307.
Cadava, E. (1992). Words of light: Theses on the photography of history. Diacritics, 22 (3-4), 84-114.
January 6 2006
Bey, H. (1991). T.A.Z. Brooklyn: Autonomedia, pp. 95-141. Darnton, R. (2000; June 29). Paris: The early Internet. New York Review of Books, 47(11), 42-47.
December 9 2005
Agamben, G. (1998). Homo sacer: Sovereign power and bare life. Stanford University Press, pp. 1-12 & 119-143. Derrida, J. (2000). Of hospitality. Stanford University Press, pp. 75-155.
November 18 2005
Massumi, B. The future birth of the affective fact. Benjamin, W. On the concept of history/Theses on the philosophy of history.
November 4 2005
Delanda, M. (2002). Intensive science & virtual philosophy. London: Continuum, Intro & Ch. 1
Serres, M. (2000). The birth of physics. Manchester: Clinamen Press, pp. 101-134.
Reiser, S. J. (1978). Medicine and the reign of technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 23-44.
Reference
Lucretius Carus, Titus: Of the Nature of Things, trans. by William Ellery Leonard (Gutenberg text):
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/natng10.txt
October 7 2005
Delanda, M. (2002). Intensive science & virtual philosophy. London: Continuum, pp. 45-81.
Friday 23 September
Jaqcues Attali (1985) "Listening" from *Noise: The Political Economy of Music*, pp. 3-20
John Shepherd and Peter Wicke (1997) "Towards a Sociology of Sound" from *Music and Cultural Theory*, pp. 204-217.
Elizabeth Tolbert (2004) "Theorizing the Musically Abject" from *Bad Music: The Music We Love To Hate* (edited by Chris Washburne and Maiken Derno), pp. 104-119.
September 9 2005
Barbaras, R. (2002). The ambiguity of the flesh. Chiasmi International, 4, 19-26. Lawlor, L. (2002). The chiasm and the fold: An introduction to the philosophical concept of archeology. Chiasmi International, 4, 105-118.
Amin, K. (2003). The chiasm of rhythm: A Merleau-Pontian revision of Lacanian embodiment. Chiasmi International, 5, 179-199.
Gilson, E. (2005). Questioning to the nth power: Interrogative ontology in Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze. Chiasmi International, 6, 207-224.
August 12 2005
Rebecca's "Reconsidering the utility of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology for feminist thought"
Merleau-Ponty, M. (1968). The visible and the invisible. Evanston, Il: Northwestern University Press, pp. 130-155.
Barbaras, R. (2002). The ambiguity of the flesh. Chiasmi International, 4, 19-26.
Lawlor, L. (2002). The chiasm and the fold: An introduction to the philosophical concept of archeology. Chiasmi International, 4, 105-118.
Young, I. M. (1989). Throwing like a girl: A phenomenology of feminine body comportment, motility, and spatiality. In J. Allen & I. M. Young (Eds.), The thinking muse: Feminism and modern French philosophy (pp. 51-70). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Irigaray, L. (1993). _An ethics of sexual difference. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, pp. 151-184.
June 24 2005
Karatani, K. (1995). Architecture as metaphor: Language, number, money. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, pp. vii-xlvi.
April 15 2005
Virilio, P. (1997). Open sky. London: Verso, pp. 9-45 & 103-145. Armitage, J. (1999). From modernism to hypermodernism, Theory, Culture & Society, 16(5-6), 25-55
April 1 2005
Lefebvre, H. (1991). The production of space. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 229-291. We will also be reading the chapter 'plan of the present work.'
March 18 2005
Lefebvre, H. (1991). The production of space. Oxford:`Basil Blackwell, pp. 229-291.
March 4 2005
Deleuze, G. (1998). How do we recognize structuralism? In C. J. Stivale. The two-fold thought of Deleuze and Guattari (pp. 258-282). New York: The Guilford Press.
Deleuze, G. (2001). Pure immanence: Essays on a life. New York: Zone Books, pp. 7-33 & 53-102.
Supplementary Readings
Badiou, A. (1999). Deleuze: The clamor of being. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, pp. 43-53.
Stivale's introduction to & notes to Deleuze (1998).
Thom, R. (1983). Mathematical models of morphogenesis. Chichester: Ellis Horwood Limited, pp. 261-276.
January 28 2005
Reading: several sections from Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project. Shields R. Fancy Footwork
November 26 2004
Shields, R. (2003). Visualicity. Von Bonsdorff, P. (1998). The human habitat: Aesthetic and axiological perspectives, pp. 18-51.
Greimas, A. J. & Fontanille, J. (1993). The semiotics of passions, xvii-xxvi.
November 5 2004
Shields, R. (2000). Virtual spaces? Space and Culture, 4/5, 1-12.
Deleuze, G. (1988). _Bergsonism_ (pp. 91-103; pp. 59-61. New York: Zone Books.
October 29 2004
Shields, R. (1992). A truant proximity. Environment and Planning D, 10, 181-198.
Simmel, G. "The stranger."
Derrida, J. "Ousia and gramme." In F. J. Smith (Ed.), Phenomenology in perspective (pp. 54-93). Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff.
October 22 2004
Shields, R. Places on the margin. Chapter 1. Van Loon, J. Social Spatialization.
October 15 2004
Shields, R. Places on the margin. Chapter 2.
