Below is a table showing the grade you received on your final test.  The percentage that follows should give you a rough idea of how well you’re doing in the course right now (it is a cumulative percentage).  Remember that your final project is worth 30% so you can pretty seriously raise or lower that grade.  The class average right now is 76%.

392900:    17.5    85%
1019833:    16    88%
1049893:    0    61%
1054297:    17.5    92%
1108217:    0    20%
1114692:    10.5    82%
1119559:    18.5    92%
1121436:    15.5    81%
1132712:    14.5    83%
1143385:    17    86%
1144270:    15    74%
1148494:    13    72%
1150170:    10    77%
1151848:    19.5    99%
1152278:    15    82%
1153793:    17    84%
1155920:    10    53%
1163040:    15    85%
1168610:   14    80%
1170594:    9    64%
1172253:   10.5    46%
1174619:    13    79%
1175308:    12.5    78%
1175381:    13.5    75%
1176908:    10    64%
1178184:    7    61%
1179506:    17    88%
1184908:    12.5    76%
1200101:    16.5    86%
1210960:    18.5    93%
1217756:    12    78%

Friday April 3, 2009: Final Test: 20%

This in-class, closed book test will focus primarily on Storey’s Cultural theory and popular culture text.  You will also be tested on general knowledge of Taussig and specific knowledge of one chapter from Edwards.  See below for details about the specific chapters and sections that you will be tested on:

• Cultural theory and popular culture:
  • Ch. 4. Marxisms
  • Ch. 7. Gender and Sexuality
  • Ch. 8. Postmodernism
• Law in a lawless land: Diary of a limpieza in Colombia
  • Author’s note
  • The First Week
  • A view from the outside
• Photography: A Very Short Introduction.
  • Chapter 2: “Documents”

Final Project

Your final project will be due on Friday, April 24th.  You need to hand these in to the main sociology office (5-21 HM Tory building before the office closes at 4pm).

Hey all, sorry about the SNAFU this morning. I returned from Texas and came down with a nasty bit of food poisoning. In my delirium I asked the department of sociology to post a notice that class would be canceled for 9:30, not 9am. Any how please accept my most humble apologies.

All will be back to normal on Wednesday. See you then.

-Craig

After class today I came across this article in the New York Times about the “Dissonant undertones” of M.I.A.s songs. While the author has obviously little capacity to sympathize with ‘terrorists’ there is a pretty reasonable coverage of the conflict between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority. It certainly lights up our discussion of the ‘culture industry’.

see also this video: Delon diss’ MIA

This will be a good point to talk about remix and resistance.

• Wolfgang Staehle
  • www.postmastersart.com/archive/staehle.html
• Animated Soviet Propaganda
  • www.kino.com/video/item.php?film_id=851
• Michel De Certeau
  • http://www.ubu.com/papers/de_certeau.html