Archive & Ephemera: Theory Surge.

At the bottom is a list of the articles you have all pitched.

Based on your responses, I’d like to propose that we read the following three articles for April 22nd:

1. Bossart, William H. “Heidegger’s Theory of Art.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 27, no. 1 (1968): 57–66.
2. Marker, Chris, Brian Holmes, and Exact Change. Immemory: A Cd-rom. Exact Change, 2008.
3. Massumi, Brian. Deleuze, Guattari, and the philosophy of expression. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1997.

Get the articles here: https://courses.utexas.edu/bbcswebdav/xid-22114502_1

Full List….

Bossart, William H. “Heidegger’s Theory of Art.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 27, no. 1 (1968): 57–66.

Dabashi, Hamid. Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema. Verso Books, 2006.

Griesemer, J., and S. Star. “Institutional Ecology,‘Translations’ and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907–1939.” Social Studies of Science 19, no. 3 (1989): 387–420.

Heffernan, James A. W. “Critical Response Staging Absorption and Transmuting the Everyday: A Response to Michael Fried.” Critical Inquiry 34, no. 4 (April 2008): 818–834. doi:10.1086/592545.

Marker, Chris, Brian Holmes, and Exact Change. Immemory: A Cd-rom. Exact Change, 2008.

Massumi, Brian. Deleuze, Guattari, and the philosophy of expression. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1997.

Murphie, Andrew. “Clone Your Technics.” Inflexions 1, no. How is research-creation? (2008). http://www.senselab.ca/inflexions/pdf/pdf/Murphie.pdf.

Richards, Sandra L. “What Is to Be Remembered?: Tourism to Ghana’s Slave Castle-Dungeons.” Theatre Journal 57, no. 4 (2005): 617–637.

Star, Susan Leigh, and James R. Griesemer. “Institutional Ecology, `Translations’ and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39.” Social Studies of Science 19, no. 3 (August 1, 1989): 387–420. doi:10.1177/030631289019003001.

Woolgar, Steve. “Configuring the User: The Case of Usability Trials.” A Sociology of Monsters: Essays on Power, Technology and Domination 58 (1991): 66–75.

• “Walking, sensing, belonging: ethno-mimesis as performative past”, ONeill&Hubbard – Walking Sensing Belonging – 2010
• “The reorganization of the sensory world”, porcello_etal2010
• “A few remarks on the method of Jacques Ranciere”, Ranciere2009

Above are the articles I’d like you to read over the break.  Please come to class on the 18th prepared to discuss these articles, present your production journals, and workshop obstruction #2.

Welcome to the course website.  I will be actively updating the website as we move through the semester. For the time being, please purchase the two required books from a local or on-line retailer.  They have not been ordered at the bookstore:

Marcus, George E, and Michael M. J Fischer, eds. Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Rancière, Jacques. 2006. The politics of aesthetics : the distribution of the sensible. Pbk. ed. London; New York: Continuum.

For more information on this photograph see www.ethnographicterminalia.org

To read for next class (January 28).

George E. Marcus and Erkan Saka, “Assemblage,” Theory Culture Society 23, no. 2-3 (May 1, 2006): 101-106. [marcus-saka2006.pdf]

Arnd Schneider, “Three modes of experimentation with art and ethnography.,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14, no. 1 (March 2008): 171-194. [schneider2008.pdf].

Michael Taussig, “The Diary as Witness: An anthropologist writes what he must,” The Chronicle Review, 2003.