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WEEK 3/APRIL 28TH READING JACQUES RANCIÈRE I

NOTE(UPDATED): Sequence of reading: Week 3----"regimes of the arts" Reading No. 1+ No.3 Week 4----" Partage du sensible’: the Distribution of the sensible " No. 4+ No. 3 Week 5----No. 2 Please come either with your question(s) or a keyword/concept (with an example). Required Reading (for Week 3-5) : 1. Deranty, Jean-Philippe. “Regimes of the arts”, in Jacques Rancière: Key Words , edited by Jean-Philippe Deranty, Acumen Publishing Limited, 2010, pp116-130 [download HERE together with No. 4--they are put in ONE PDF file] 2. Rancière , Jacques. “Aesthetics as Politics” Aesthetics And Its Discontents , translated from the French by Steven Corcoran, Polity, 2009, pp19-44 [distribute in class] 3. Tanke, Joseph J. “Chapter 3: Retrieving the Politics of Aesthetics”, Jacques Rancière: An Introduction—Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics , Continuum, pp73-109 [distribute in class] 4. Panagia, Davide. “’Partage du sensible’: the Distribut

WEEK 2/APRIL 21st BARE LIFE & MULTITUDE

Required Reading : Agamben, Giorgio. (1998)“Introduction”, in HOMO SACER: Sovereign Power and Bare Life , Translated from Italian by Daniel Heller-Roazen, Stanford University Press, pp 4-11  [distribute in class] Brown, Nicholas, and Imre Szeman. "WHAT IS THE MULTITUDE?." Cultural Studies 19, no. 3 (May 2005): 372-387. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed April 11, 2016). [click HERE to download] Hardt, Michael & Negri, Antonio.   “Preface: Life in Common”, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire , Penguin. 2005, pp xi-xvii [distribute in class] Reference Reading “Bare Life”, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/10803281.0001.001/1:11/--impasses-of-the-post-global-theory-in-the-era-of-climate?rgn=div1;view=fulltext

WEEK 1 /APRIL 14TH INTRODUCTION

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Welcome to the Seminar ( GRADUATE SEMINAR: CINEMA AND PRACTICE IV )!!! The first class is on April 14th, and we would watch two shorts in class Respite , Dir. Harun Farocki, 2007 Inextinguishable Fire , Dir. Harun Farocki, 1969