FEBRUARY 4th:

• THEODOR ADORNO AND MAX HORKHEIMER,
      "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" (1944)

• ARTHUR DANTO
      Introduction from After the End of Art (1996)

• ROBERT STORR (SUGGESTED reading),
      "No Joy in Mudville: Greenberg's Modernism Then and Now" (1990)

FEBRUARY 11th:

• ROLAND BARTHES
     "The Death of the Author" (1968)  

MARCH 25th:

• LINDA NOCHLIN,
      " Why have there been no great women artists?" (1971)

• LESTER BANGS,
      "The White Noise Supremacists" (1979)

APRIL 1st:

• IHAB HASSAN,
      "Toward a Concept of Postmodernism" (1987)

APRIL 8th:

• CRAIG OWENS,
      "The Discourse of Others: Feminism and Postmodernism" (1983)

• ROSALIND KRAUSS,
      Excerpts from Cindy Sherman: Untitled (1993)

APRIL 15th:

• JULIA KRISTEVA,
      Excerpts from "Approaching Abjection" (1982)

• CORNEL WEST,
      "The New Politics of Cultural Difference" (1990)

• BELL HOOKS,
      "Postmodern Blackness" (1990)

APRIL 22nd:

• JUDITH BUTLER,
      "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution" (1988)

• LIZ KOTZ/JUDITH BUTLER
      "The Body You Want: Liz Kotz interviews Judith Butler" (1992)

APRIL 29th:

• FREDRIC JAMESON,
      Excerpts from Postmodernism, Or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)

• CATHY BYRD
      "Is there a 'post-black' art?" (2002)

• DJ SPOOKY
      "An Interview with That Subliminal Kid" (2002)

• FEMINISM AND ART: NINE VIEWS (2003)

MAY 6th:

• NICOLAS BOURRIAUD
      Excerpts from Relational Aesthetics (1998)
      "Altermodern Manifesto" (and video interview) (2009)

• DONALD KUSPIT
      "The Semiotic Anti-Subject" (2000)

• KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH
      "The Case for Contamination" (2006)

• LEV MANOVICH
      "Introduction to Info-Aesthetics" 2008)

• [suggested readings:]

• DAN FOX
      "Debit and Credit" (2008)

• ROBERT VENTURI
     Excerpts from Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)

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