Much better discussion today. I'm really looking forward to Friday.
HOMEWORK:
Find a key quotation (1-2 sentences) from your assigned essay/book, for the short answers on the final exam, and post below. It would be helpful (to you and me both) if you could also find a second one from one of the other essays/books.
LEFTOVER QUESTIONS FROM TODAY'S DISCUSSION:
We'll try to come back to this at some point on Friday, but I'd love for the discussion to continue on the blog here.
-Who determines what is cool in the U.S... is it more "trickle down" or more "trickle up"? (p. 120)
-Do you agree with Gladwell that cool is primarily an ethical system rather than an aesthetic one? ("look for cool people first and cool things later" - p. 128)
-New one... is the U.S. primarily an 'export' market for cool or an 'import' market for cool?
PAPER #6:
Is due on Friday unless you arrange with me otherwise. Submit to turnitin.com with works cited, acknowledgments, and reflections all in the same document. As you know, I got heavily involved at the "ideas draft" phase of paper #6 instead of the "working draft" phase. So I won't be reading your working drafts individually. I will take a quick look at them tonight however. So if you watch this space later tonight, I will be posting blanket comments/tips based on some of the issues that come up in the papers.
NO WEDNESDAY OFFICE HOURS:
Sorry, I have some appointments to keep. You will have ample opportunity to talk to me on Friday...
FINAL EXAM REVIEW SESSION:
I am reserving a room for the afternoon of Friday the 13th. I will be in there immediately after class at 12:00, and stay until 4:00 or possibly later. Drop in for as much time as you can... the more of you there, the better it will be.
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Mike Davis article
ReplyDelete"Even as the walls have come down in Eastern Europe, they are being erected all over Los Angeles." (pg.105 in CR)
"Katerina Ismailova is bored with her life and loveless marriage... An embrace [with Sergei-not her husband] leads to passionate lovemaking, interrupted momentarily when Boris asks if she is in bed... Katerina serves [Boris] mushrooms she has laced with rat poison... The lovers hide the body... Realizing they have been discovered, Katerina tells Sergei that they must leave immediately...Sergei flirts with another convict... Katerina drags Sonyetka with her to death in the slowly flowing river.
ReplyDeleteSarah & the others. Don't do the summary of the opera, do the review of the opera in the Pravda newspaper.
ReplyDeleteJane Jacobs
ReplyDelete"Conventionally, neighborhood parks or parklike open spaces are considered boons conferred on the deprived populations of cities. Let us turn thought around, and consider city parks deprived places that need the boon of life and appreciation conferred on them." (page 88)
Malcom Gladwell: Cool-hunting
"Cool is a set of dialects, not a language." (page 128)
Hitler's speech:
ReplyDelete"From the pictures sent in for exhibition it is clear that the eye of some men portrays things otherwise than as they are...I need not ask whether they really do see or feel things in this way, but in the name of the German people I have only to prevent these miserable unfortunates, who clearly suffer from defects of vision, attempting with violence to persuade contemporaries by their chatter that these faults of observation are indeed realities or from presenting them as 'art.'" (pages 90-91)
Malcolm Gladwell on cool-hunting:
"It is not possible to be cool, in other words, unless you are--in some larger sense--already cool, and so the phenomenon that the uncool cannot see and cannot have described to them is also something that they cannot ever attain, because if they did it would no longer be cool." (page 130)
Gladwell Essay:
ReplyDelete...so the phenomenon that the uncool cannot see and cannot have described to them is also something they can never attain, because if they did it would no longer be cool.
Coolhunting represents the ascendancy, in the market, place of high school
Pravda Review-
ReplyDelete"Lady Macbeth is having great success with bourgeois audiences abroad. Is it not because the opera is non-political and confusing that they praise it? Is it not explained by the fact that it tickles the perverted taste of the bourgeois with its fidgety, neurotic music?" pg. 101
Gorky-
"Social and cultural progress develop normally only when the hands teach the head, after which the head, now grown more wise, teaches the hands, and the wise hands once again, this time more effectually, promote the growth of the mind". pg. 92-93
Gorky Essay
ReplyDelete"The culture of capitalism is nothing but a system of methods aimed at the physical and moral expansion and consolidation of the power of the bourgeoisie over the world, over men, over the treasures of the earth and the power of nature."
Pravda Review of Lady Macbeth:
ReplyDelete"Here is music turned deliberately inside out in order that nothing will be reminiscent of classical opera, or have anything in common with symphonic music or with simple and popular musical language accessible to all...the power of good music to infect the masses has been sacrificed to a petty-bourgeois, 'formalist" attempt to create originality through cheap clowning."
Soviet Literature, Gorky
ReplyDelete"We must grasp the fact that it is the toll of the masses which forms the fundamental organizer of culture and the creator of all ideas, both those which in the course of centuries have minimized the decisive significance of labor[...]" (CR pg. 94)
Hitler's speech
ReplyDelete"As in politics, so in German art-life, we are determined to make a clean sweep of empty phrases... People have attempted to recommend modern art by saying that it is the expression of a new age; but art does not create a new age, it is the general life of peoples which fashions itself anew and often looks for a new expression."
Jane Jacobs:
ReplyDelete"The point of both the testimonial banquet and the social life of city sidewalks is precisely that they are public. They bring together people who do not know each other in an intimate, private social fashion and in most cases do not care to know each other in that fashion." Page 55