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Lecture 1: Culture
and Modernity
David Harvey,
from The Condition
of Postmodernity
Economic
Developments of Modernity
Philosophical
Paradigms of Modernity
Political
Systems of Modernity
The
Social Subject of Modernity
Social
Functions of Art in Modernity
Powerpoints
of Diagrams on History of Modernity
Lecture
2: The Concept of Culture
Raymond Williams, "Culture"
from Keywords
David Bathrick, "Cultural
Studies"
The
Concept of Culture in Modernity (webcast)
bell hooks, "Cultural
Criticism and Transformation, part I"
bell hooks, "Cultural
Criticism and Transformation, part II"
bell hooks, "Cultural
Criticism and Transformation, part III"
Lecture 3: Marx, Durkheim,
Weber, Simmel
Philip Smith,
Cultural
Theory,
pp. 1-21
Lecture
4: Marxist Foundations: Historical Materialism
Intro to
Historical Materialism (text)
Intro
to Historical Materialism (webcast)
From
The German Ideology, (Materialist Conception of History)
Lecture
5: Marxist Foundations: Base and Superstructure
Raymond
Williams, from Marxism and Literature, pp.
11-44
Intro to Base
and Superstructure (text)
The
Concept of Base and Superstructure (webcast)
Preface
to A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy
From
The German Ideology, (Preface)
From
The German Ideology, (Civil Society and History)
Lecture
6: Marxist Foundations: The Labor Theory of Value
Labor Power
and Surplus Value (text)
Labor
Power and Surplus Value (webcast)
From Capital, Vol I, Ch. 6 (Labor-Power)
From Capital, Vol I, Ch. 7 (Surplus
Value)
Lecture 7: Marxist Foundations: Commodity
Fetishism
The
Commodity Form
Capital,
Vol I, Ch. 1 Sec. 1 (Commodities: Use-Value and Value)
Capital,
Vol I, Ch. 1 Sec. 2 (Labor Embodied in Commodities)
Capital,
Vol I, Ch. 1 Sec. 4 (Fetishism of Commodities)
Jean Baudrillard,
from The
System of Objects
Questions
Lecture 8: Frankfurt
School Critical Theory
Intro
to the Frankfurt School
Philip Smith, Cultural
Theory,
pp. 37-57
Walter Benjamin, The Work
of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno from Dialectic
of Enlightenment
Lecture 9: Cultural
Hegemony and Ideology
Intro to
Ideology (text
Intro
to Ideology (webcast)
From The
German Ideology, "Idealism and Materialism"
Louis Althusser, "Ideology
and Ideological State Apparatuses"
Suggested Further
Reading:
Dave Harris' Reading Guide
to Althusser's ISA Essay
Synopsis
of "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"
Lecture 10: British
Cultural Studies
British
Cultural Studies (webcast)
Competing Paradigms:
Stuart Hall, "Cultural
Studies: Two Paradigms"
Stuart Hall: "Representation
and the Media"
Questions
Lecture 11: Identity Politics
Theories
Henry Louis Gates,
"Ethnic
Studies"
Critical
Race Theory:
Stuart Hall: "Race: the Floating
Signifier"
Lecture 12: Materialist
Feminism
(Materialist
Feminism (webcast)
Materialist Feminism (text)
Virginia
Woolf, "A Room of One's Own"
Simone de Beauvoir, The
Second Sex: "Introduction"
Simone de Beauvoir, The
Second Sex: Ch. 1: "Biology"
Lecture 13: Feminism
and Psychoanalytic Theory
Simone de Beauvoir, The
Second Sex: Ch. 2: "Psychoanalysis"
Laura Mulvey, "Visual
Pleasures and Narrative Cinema "
Philip Smith, Cultural Theory, pp. 202-213
Suggested
Further Reading:
Marc Fonda's Synopsis of Freud's Three Essays
on Sexuality
Terry Eagleton, "Psychoanalysis"
from Literary
Theory
F. Engels, The
Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Mary
Klages, on Academic Feminism
Questions
Lecture 14: Postmodernism
andPostmodernity
Intro to Modernism/Postmodernism
Philip Smith, Cultural Theory, pp. 214-32
Fredric Jameson, "The Cultural
Logic of Late Capitalism." From New Left Review 146
Suggested Further
Reading:
Synopsis
of "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism"
Fredric Jameson, What's
Left of Theory? (Part
I)
Lecture
15: Globalization and Neoliberalism
David Harvey, from A
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Suggested Further
Reading:
Ron Strickland,
"The Humanities and their Boundaries"
Questions
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