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1Class Introduction - Guest Presentation: Jimmy ChenFoucault, Michel. "Fearless Speech."

Testimonials.
2Introduction to VAP IEL (Dan Van Roekel)

Discussion of Readings Assigned on 9.7
3Introduction to VAP Shop Facilities (Charlie Mathis)Amazon logo Papanek, Victor. Design for the real world: human ecology and social change. Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago, 1985. ISBN: 0897331532.

Mouffe, Chantal. "Which Democracy in a post-political age?" The Dark Markets: Infopolitics, electronic media and democracy in times of crisis. lecture series, Public netbase / t0, Wein, October 5, 2002. Video documentation: (RAM) (31/03/2003).

Dobson, Kelly: ScreamBody.

Michael Rakowitz: ParaSITE, RISE.

Wochenklausur: Art and Sociopolitical Intervention.

N55: 3 selections from "Manual for N55." In N55 Book. Odder, Denmark: Narayana Press, 2003. ISBN: 8791409055. (PDF - 8.9 MB)
4Individual Roundtable Presentations/Sketches: Project 1

Discussion (Papanek, Mouffe, Art Projects)
Amazon logo Kristeva, Julia. Strangers to Ourselves. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1991, chapter 1 and final 2 chapters. ISBN: 0231071574.

Amazon logo Herman, Judith. "Ethics of the Self and Ethics of the Other." In Trauma and Recovery. London, UK: Pandora, 2001. ISBN: 0863584306.
5Guest Presentations: Tim Anderson and Elliot Felix

Discussion (Kristeva, Herman)
Amazon logo Brecht, Bertold. Brecht on Theater: the Development of an Aesthetic. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1978. ISBN: 0809005425.

Amazon logo Bakhtin, M. M. "Carnival Ambivalence: Laughter, Praise and Abuse" and "The Banquet, the Body and the Underworld." In The Bakhtin Reader. Edited by Pam Morris. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0340592672.
6Individually Scheduled Meetings with Prof.
7Guest Presentation: Azra Aksamija

Discussion (Bakhtin, Brecht)

CAVS Lecture: Vito Acconci Studio
Thoreau, Henry David. On Civil Disobedience.

Critical Arts Ensemble. Electronic Civil Disobedience. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1995.

Amazon logo Benjamin, Walter. "Critique of Violence." In Selected Writings Vol. 1: 1913-1926. Translated by Edmund Jephcott. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1996. ISBN: 0674945859.

Public Enemy [AUDIO]: "Fear of a Black Planet," and "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back."

Martin Luther King. (Selected readings.)
8Individually Scheduled Meetings with Prof.
9Discussion (Thoreau, Benjamin, Critical Arts Ensemble, Public Enemy, King)Amazon logo Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. Nomadology. New York, NY: Semiotext(e), 1986. ISBN: 0936756098.
10Discussion (Deleuze and Guattari)
11Individually Scheduled Meetings with Prof.
12Mid-term
13Mid-term (cont.)Giancarlo De Carlo. (Multiplicity USE.)

Amazon logo Smith, Neil. "From Gentrification to the Revanchist City." In The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996. ISBN: 041513255X.

Amazon logo Castells, Manuel. "Immigrant Workers and Class Struggles in Advanced Capitalism." Chapter 3 in The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. ISBN: 0631219331.

Amazon logo Levinas, Emanuel. "Cities of Refuge." In Beyond the Verse: Talmudic Readings and Lectures. London, UK: Athlone Press, 1994. ISBN: 0485114305.

Amazon logo Deutsche, Rosalyn. Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. ISBN: 0262041588.

Hannah Arendt. (Selected readings.)
14Discussion (Levinas, Benjamin, Deutsche)
15Discussion (Smith, De Carlo, Arendt, Castells)
16Guest Presentation

CAVS Lecture: Pia Lindman
17Guest PresentationN55. "Art and Reality," and "N55 Manual."

Amazon logo Fuller, Buckminster. Utopia or Oblivion. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1969. ISBN: 0553028839.
18N55 Presentation
19N55 Presentation (cont.)Amazon logo Bakunin, Michael. God and the State. New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1970. ISBN: 048622483X.

Amazon logo West, Cornel. American Evasion of Philosophy. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. ISBN: 0299119645.
20Discussion (Bakunin, West)

CAVS Lecture: Judith Barry
Situationist International. (Selected readings.)

Amazon logo Careri, Francesco (Stalker). Walkscapes: Walking as an aesthetic practice. Barcelona, Spain: Gili, 2002. ISBN: 8425218411.

Amazon logo Winnicott, D. W. Playing and Reality. New York, NY: Tavistock Publications, 1980. ISBN: 0422783102.

Jacques Tati [FILM]: Mon Oncle.
21Individually Scheduled Meetings with Prof.
22Discussion (Winnicott, Situationists, Careri)
23Individually Scheduled Meetings with Prof.
24Production / Individual Meetings with Prof.
25Production / Individual Meetings with Prof. (cont.)
26Final

 








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