REMINDER: Reader 43-51 will help you make sense of Moeller's lecture tomorrow, but there will be no Nazis on the midterm. Moeller also sent this timeline to the instructor listserv. And this one.
REMINDER: Discovery Task #3 due to the Dropbox tonight. I recommend choosing images that are interesting/challenging so you can get a head start on your next essay (image analysis). In other words, don't just choose the first thing you find... peck around a little bit. But anything from Germany 1918-1933 will work for the discovery task. Example: we had this whole discussion in our instructor staff meeting today about a student who got a D on the essay last year. He chose the theme of hyperinflation and the image he selected was a 100,000 deutschmark bill from the Wikipedia article on "Weimar Republic." His analysis was like, "there was inflation, so the number on the bill is high." You might find something a bit meatier than that for your paper, and like I said, you might as well get started looking for it.
REMINDER: Watch this space for a rant on why communists reject the notion of a separate realm of aesthetic value. (As seen in "The Art Scab.")
REMINDER: Midterm Friday. (I will provide some kind of study aid on Wednesday, but you can start by going back through your lecture notes, class notes, and all the blog posts.)
STRAY THOUGHT: Today is Groundhog Day, which is a great movie if you've never seen it. But it's also another of those really old European folk holidays, as it so happens... it's halfway between the winter solstice (Dec. 22ish) and the spring equinox (March 22ish), so it means spring is coming soon. Mayday, if you recall, is the halfway point (May 1) of the spring equinox (March 22ish) and the summer solstice (June 22ish)... that's the moment of transition you see in Botticelli's painting, between the early spring and the late spring (cf. to the modern "spring break" bacchanalia). So apparently the festival calendar is divided into eighths as well as fourths... I wonder if the capitalist/corporate holidays of Super Bowl and Valentine's Day could be considered mid-winter holidays?
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