Critical Theory Reading Group
Critical Theory Reading Group
The group is comprised of graduate students, both MFA and Ph.D. in Visual Arts, as well as outside departments and welcomes interests from a variety of sources within and related to the visual arts. Each meeting is student-led and hosted in the DCP space. Previous discussion topics have been as diverse as Adorno's writings on motif, the concept of "use-value", death and Surrealism through Bataille's "Visions of Excess," historicity in Lucy R. Lippard's "Six Year" and readings by Visual Arts faculty including Norman Bryson and Mariana Botey. Topics are student-generated and meetings are hosted at the DCP space approximately every third week during the academic year.
The group is comprised of graduate students, both MFA and Ph.D. in Visual Arts, as well as outside departments and welcomes interests from a variety of sources within and related to the visual arts. Each meeting is student-led and hosted in the DCP space. Previous discussion topics have been as diverse as Adorno's writings on motif, the concept of "use-value", death and Surrealism through Bataille's "Visions of Excess," historicity in Lucy R. Lippard's "Six Year" and readings by Visual Arts faculty including Norman Bryson and Mariana Botey. Topics are student-generated and meetings are hosted at the DCP space approximately every third week during the academic year.
June 3, 2015
June 3, 2015
Bataille, Georges. The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, vol. I: “Consumption.” New York: Zone Books, 1988. (selections)
Bataille, Georges. The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, vol. I: “Consumption.” New York: Zone Books, 1988. (selections)
Benjamin, Walter. The Origin of German Tragic Drama. Translated by John Osborne. New York: Verson, 1998. (selections)
Benjamin, Walter. The Origin of German Tragic Drama. Translated by John Osborne. New York: Verson, 1998. (selections)
Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Random House, 1994. (selections)
Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Random House, 1994. (selections)
May 13, 2015
May 13, 2015
Wardwell, Mariana. Zonas de Disturbio: Espectros del México Indígena en la Modernidad. 2015. (selections)
Wardwell, Mariana. Zonas de Disturbio: Espectros del México Indígena en la Modernidad. 2015. (selections)
April 22, 2015
April 22, 2015
Hollier, Denis. “The Use-Value of the Impossible.” Translated by Liesl Ollman. October 60 (Spring 1992): 3-24.
Hollier, Denis. “The Use-Value of the Impossible.” Translated by Liesl Ollman. October 60 (Spring 1992): 3-24.
Mann, Paul. “Economies.” In The Theory-Death of the Avant-Garde. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991. (selections)
Mann, Paul. “Economies.” In The Theory-Death of the Avant-Garde. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991. (selections)
February 9, 2015
February 9, 2015
Harney, Stefano, and Fred Moten. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study. Wivenhoe / New York / Port Watson: Minor Compositions (Autonomedia), 2013.
Harney, Stefano, and Fred Moten. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study. Wivenhoe / New York / Port Watson: Minor Compositions (Autonomedia), 2013.
Susan Buck-Morss, The Origin of Negative Dialectics Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt Institute: New York: The Free Press, 1977; Hassocks, England: The Harvester Press, 1977. (Chapters 3 & 4)
Susan Buck-Morss, The Origin of Negative Dialectics Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt Institute: New York: The Free Press, 1977; Hassocks, England: The Harvester Press, 1977. (Chapters 3 & 4)
January 12, 2015
January 12, 2015
Lucy Lippard, "Preface" and "Escape Attempts," Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1997.
Lucy Lippard, "Preface" and "Escape Attempts," Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1997.
Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss, "A User's Guide to Entropy." October, Vol. 78, (Autumn, 1996): 38-88.
Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss, "A User's Guide to Entropy." October, Vol. 78, (Autumn, 1996): 38-88.
December 8, 2014
December 8, 2014
Adorno, Theodore. “Motifs.” (selections)
Adorno, Theodore. “Motifs.” (selections)
Dietz, Bill. “Composing Listening.” Performance Research 16:3: 56-61.
Dietz, Bill. “Composing Listening.” Performance Research 16:3: 56-61.
Moten, Fred. “Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh).” The South Atlantic Quarterly 112:4 (Fall 2013). (selections)
Moten, Fred. “Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh).” The South Atlantic Quarterly 112:4 (Fall 2013). (selections)
November 17, 2014
November 17, 2014
Muñoz, José Esteban. "Introduction." In Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. (selections)
Muñoz, José Esteban. "Introduction." In Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. (selections)
Balibar, Etienne. "The Nation Form: History and Ideology." In Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities. Translated by Chris Turner. New York: Verso, 1988. (selections)
Balibar, Etienne. "The Nation Form: History and Ideology." In Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities. Translated by Chris Turner. New York: Verso, 1988. (selections)
October 30, 2014
October 30, 2014
Bourdieu, Pierre. “The Field of Cultural Production, or: the Economic World Reversed.” In The Field of Cultural Production, Edited by Randal Johnson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993: 29-71.
Bourdieu, Pierre. “The Field of Cultural Production, or: the Economic World Reversed.” In The Field of Cultural Production, Edited by Randal Johnson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993: 29-71.
Foucault, Michel. “Description of Statements.” In The Archaeology of Knowledge, 106-117.
Foucault, Michel. “Description of Statements.” In The Archaeology of Knowledge, 106-117.