Admission to the seminar is by application to the instructors: send a paragraph explaining your interest to [email protected] and [email protected] by Monday Sept 10.

Required Books (purchase at Labyrinth at reduced price)

Peter Bürger, Theory of the Avant-Garde
Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood, Anachronic Renaissance
Viktor Shklovsky, Zoo, or Letters Not About Love
Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time (volume 1)
Peter Weiss, Aesthetics of Resistance (volume 1)

Requirements

Active participation; short presentations; paper due on dean’s date

1: Preposterous History

Karl Marx, extract from Introduction to Grundrisse (Vintage, 1973), 109-11, E-reserve
Alexander Nagel, Medieval Modern (2012), 1-28, E-reserve
Amy Knight Powell, Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church
         and the Modern Museum (2012), 9-42, 267-92, E-reserve

2: Anachronism

Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood, Anachronic Renaissance (2010), esp. 7-133
Georges Didi-Huberman, “Before the Image, Before Time: The Sovereignty of Anachronism,”   
         E-reserve

3: Nachleben

Aby Warburg, The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity, 88-156, 552-58, 562-91, E-reserve
Georges Didi-Huberman, “The Surviving Image: Aby Warburg and Tylorian Anthropology,”
        Oxford Art Journal 25.1 (2002), Jstor  
Giorgio Agamben, “Aby Warburg & the Nameless Science,” Potentialities, 89-103, E-reserve
Philippe-Alain Michaud, Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion (2004), 250-75, E-reserve

Recommended:

Aby Warburg, Mnemosyne
Georges Didi-Huberman, L’Image survivante
E.H. Gombrich, Aby Warburg

4: Paradigm Repetition & Deferred Action

T.S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919), E-reserve
Harold Bloom, Introduction to The Anxiety of Influence (Oxford, 1973), 5-16
Peter Bürger, Theory of the Avant-Garde,
Benjamin Buchloh, “Primary Colors for the Second Time,” October 37 (Summer 1986), Jstor
Laplanche & Pontalis, “Deferred Action,” The Language of Psychoanalysis, 111-14, E-reserve   
Hal Foster, “What’s Neo about the Neo-Avant-Garde?”, October 70 (Autumn 1994), Jstor

Recommended:

Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition

5: Mutation & Mimesis

Iurii Tynianov, “The Literary Fact,” “On Literary Evolution,”
       “The Wax Mask,” and Lieutenant Kizhe, E-reserve
Georges Canguilhem, “Monstrosity and the Monstrous,” Knowledge of Life, 134-148, E-reserve

6: Evolution through Exteriorization

Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time (volume 1), selections
André Leroi-Gourhan, “Memory and Rhythms,” Gesture and Speech, E-reserve

7: Obstinacy

Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge, History and Obstinacy, selections, E-reserve
Fernand Braudel, “History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée,” in On History, 25-54
Manuel De Landa, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, selections, E-reserve

Recommended:

Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism
Henri Lefebvre, “What is Modernity?”, Introduction to Modernity, E-reserve

8: Rupture & Transition

Joseph Stalin, “A Year of Great Change,” E-reserve
Leon Trotsky, “The Character of the Russian Revolution: Three Concepts,” E-reserve
Viktor Shklovskii, Knight’s Move, 3-4, E-reserve
   Louis Althusser, “Contradiction and Overdetermination,” For Marx, 89-116, E-reserve
   Étienne Balibar, “Elements for a Theory of Transition,” Reading Capital, 306-345, E-reserve
   Raymond Williams, “Dominant, Residual, Emergent,” E-reserve
   Dziga Vertov, One Sixth of the World

Recommended:

Georg Lukács, “On the Theory of Spontaneity,” E-reserve

9: Revolution from Without

Viktor Shklovsky, Zoo, or Letters Not About Love
Heiner Müller, The Mission, E-reserve
Susan Buck-Morss, “Hegel and Haiti,” E-reserve
Walter Benjamin, “On the Concept of History” (1940), E-reserve
Denis Hollier, “Desperanto,” in Absent without Leave, 175-194, E-reserve

10: Non-Synchronous

Peter Weiss, Aesthetics of Resistance (volume 1)
Ernst Bloch, “Non-Simultaneity,” Heritage of Our Times, E-reserve

11: Outmoded & Archival

Walter Benjamin, “Surrealism” (1929), E-reserve
Theodor Adorno, “Valéry Proust Museum,” Prisms, E-reserve
Hal Foster, “Archives of Modern Art,” October 99 (Winter 2002), Jstor
T. J. Clark, “Modernism, Postmodernism and Steam,” October 100 (Spring 2002), Jstor

Recommended:

Sigmund Freud, “A Note upon the ‘Mystic Writing Pad’” (1925), E-reserve
Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever
Benjamin Buchloh, “Gerhard Richter’s ‘Atlas’: Anomic Archive,” October 88 (1999), Jstor

12: Discussion of Paper Prospectus