CLASS SYLLABUS (provisional)
JOHN SZARKOWSKI, Photography Until Now, The Photographer's Eye
PATRICK MAYNARD, Photo-Fidelities
MARTIN HEIDEGGER, The Origin of the Work of Art
FREDRIC JAMESON, Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
WALTER BENJAMIN, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility
RAYMOND WILLIAMS, The Technology and the Society
DAVID ANTIN, Television: Video's Frightful Parent
Benjamin Buchloh, From Gadget Video to Agit Video
Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media (43-75, 99-115, 213-240)
Janet Murray, excerpts from Hamlet on the Holodeck
Tanya Krzywinska, Blood Scythes, Festivals, Quests, and Backstories