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June 13th Spectacle, Simulacra & Mass Media I

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RR (1) for Week 10 ~12   Sturken & Cartwright,223-264 link: http:// pan.baidu.com/s/1ntwSl0t  password: ldnp download steps: 1) click the link above; 2)please click this button (see the picture below) on the page; 3) input password (2) Guy Debord, Society of Spectacle treatises 1-15, & 34 , at: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm

Reading Explication Essay 2 Deadline Delayed

Dear all, The deadline for Reading Explication Essay 2 will be July 11th , so that you could have more readings to choose from. cheers Ran

May 30th Surveillance and Panopticon

SR: Michel Foucault, “Panopticism” in Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison , at  http://foucault.info/documents/disciplineAndPunish/foucault.disciplineAndPunish.panOpticism.html

Reading Explication Essay: Due on May 30th & June 27th

Write a 500-word reading journal (typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, and 1” margins all around; refer to MLA format style; see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/675/01/ ) focusing on assigned reading for the previous month (assignment for May 30 th to review readings between Apr11th~May 30 th ; June 27 th to review readings in June). Don’t be overly concerned with grammar (although spell-check will be helpful!), but do put a lot of thinking into your reading journals since they will be key to fruitful discussions in class and even your final paper.

May 23rd Spectatorship & Gaze II

SR: bell hooks, “The Oppositional Gaze” p.115-32 in Black Looks (short excerpt at: http://www.arasite.org/hooks.htm ) please read more for the links of downloadable materials