Jerz: Media Aesthetics


Class Topics and Due Dates

"; ?>01/25/05 "; ?>Course Overview"; ?>
"; ?>01/27/05 "; ?>Intro to Aesthetics"; ?>
"; ?>01/27/05 "; ?>Various Introductory Resources"; ?>
"; ?>01/27/05 "; ?>Pygmalion Anthology"; ?>
"; ?>02/01/05 "; ?>Intro to Blogging"; ?>
"; ?>02/01/05 "; ?>Young; Cochran"; ?>
"; ?>02/03/05 "; ?>Carver, ''Cathedral'' (Library e-reserve.)"; ?>
"; ?>02/03/05 "; ?>May,''Mike's Journal''(Selections)"; ?>
"; ?>02/03/05 "; ?>Case Study: Blindness and Seeing"; ?>
"; ?>02/08/05 "; ?>Perception and Truth"; ?>
"; ?>02/08/05 "; ?>Article on Plato (Postponed)"; ?>
"; ?>02/08/05 "; ?>Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave""; ?>
"; ?>02/10/05 "; ?>Churchill, ''What Socrates Said to Phaedrus...''"; ?>
"; ?>02/10/05 "; ?>Mediation and Mimesis"; ?>
"; ?>02/10/05 "; ?>Plato, ''Ion''"; ?>
"; ?>02/10/05 "; ?>Plato, ''Phaedrus'' (excerpt)"; ?>
"; ?>02/15/05 "; ?>Dulce et Utile"; ?>
"; ?>02/15/05 "; ?>Plato, Republic (selection)"; ?>
"; ?>02/17/05 "; ?>Discussion"; ?>
"; ?>02/17/05 "; ?>Aristotle, ''Poetics'' (delayed -- was 2-15)"; ?>
"; ?>02/22/05 "; ?>Creativity and Criticism"; ?>
"; ?>02/22/05 "; ?>Pope, ''An Essay on Criticism''"; ?>
"; ?>02/22/05 "; ?>Eliot, ''Tradition and the Individual Talent''"; ?>
"; ?>02/24/05 "; ?>Humanism and Decadence"; ?>
"; ?>02/24/05 "; ?>Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Preface)"; ?>
"; ?>02/24/05 "; ?>Wilde, ''The Decay of Lying''"; ?>
"; ?>02/24/05 "; ?>Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Ch 1-4)"; ?>
"; ?>03/01/05 "; ?>Ideals and Dark Doubles"; ?>
"; ?>03/01/05 "; ?>Essay 1 Draft"; ?>
"; ?>03/01/05 "; ?>Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 2"; ?>
"; ?>03/01/05 "; ?>Shelton, ''The Aesthetic Realism of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray''"; ?>
"; ?>03/03/05 "; ?>Portfolio 1"; ?>
"; ?>03/03/05 "; ?>Informal Presentation 1"; ?>
"; ?>03/03/05 "; ?>Essay 1 Workshop"; ?>
"; ?>03/14/05 "; ?>Essay 1 Revision (Monday)"; ?>
"; ?>03/15/05 "; ?>Urban Aesthetics and Power"; ?>
"; ?>03/15/05 "; ?>McNeill, ''Skyscraper geography''"; ?>
"; ?>03/15/05 "; ?>Brooklyn Bridge & WTC"; ?>
"; ?>03/17/05 "; ?>Expressionism"; ?>
"; ?>03/17/05 "; ?>Lang, Metropolis"; ?>
"; ?>03/17/05 "; ?>Kapek, RUR (excerpts)"; ?>
"; ?>03/22/05 "; ?>Intelligent Artifice"; ?>
"; ?>03/22/05 "; ?>Crowther and Woods, ''Adventure''"; ?>
"; ?>03/22/05 "; ?>Weizenbaum, ELIZA"; ?>
"; ?>03/24/05 "; ?>Discussion"; ?>
"; ?>03/29/05 "; ?>Ars and Techne in the Academy"; ?>
"; ?>03/29/05 "; ?>Jerz, ''You Are Standing at the Beginning of a Road...''"; ?>
"; ?>03/29/05 "; ?>Powers, Galatea 2.2"; ?>
"; ?>03/31/05 "; ?>Ars and Techne, cont'd"; ?>
"; ?>03/31/05 "; ?>Powers, Galatea 2.0 2"; ?>
"; ?>04/05/05 "; ?>Postmodern Literary Aesthetics"; ?>
"; ?>04/05/05 "; ?>Powers, Galatea 2.0 3"; ?>
"; ?>04/07/05 "; ?>Geek Aesthetics"; ?>
"; ?>04/07/05 "; ?>Heller, ''Adventure''"; ?>
"; ?>04/07/05 "; ?>Clarvoe, PICK UP AX"; ?>
"; ?>04/12/05 "; ?>Cyberfeminism"; ?>
"; ?>04/12/05 "; ?>Informal Oral Presentation 2"; ?>
"; ?>04/12/05 "; ?>Laurel, Utopian Entrepreneur"; ?>
"; ?>04/14/05 "; ?>Paper 2 Workshop"; ?>
"; ?>04/14/05 "; ?>Portfolio 2"; ?>
"; ?>04/19/05 "; ?>Hypertext Aesthetics and Usability in Cyberspace"; ?>
"; ?>04/19/05 "; ?>Paper 2"; ?>
"; ?>04/21/05 "; ?>Nature and Ecocriticism"; ?>
"; ?>04/21/05 "; ?>Primary Text TBA"; ?>
"; ?>04/21/05 "; ?>Copies of student-chosen readings"; ?>
"; ?>04/21/05 "; ?>Article TBA"; ?>
"; ?>04/26/05 "; ?>Workshop"; ?>
"; ?>04/28/05 "; ?>Formal Presentations"; ?>
"; ?>04/28/05 "; ?>Reading TBA"; ?>
"; ?>04/28/05 "; ?>Reading TBA"; ?>
"; ?>05/03/05 "; ?>Formal Presentations"; ?>
"; ?>05/03/05 "; ?>Reading TBA"; ?>
"; ?>05/03/05 "; ?>Reading TBA"; ?>
"; ?>05/05/05 "; ?>Formal Presentations"; ?>
"; ?>05/05/05 "; ?>Reading TBA"; ?>
"; ?>05/05/05 "; ?>Reading TBA"; ?>
"; ?>05/06/05 "; ?>Portfolio 3"; ?>
"; ?>05/10/05 "; ?>Final Exam (1-3pm; Discussion of Term Papers)"; ?>