view: Jean Luc Godard "Éloge de l'amour" (Elegy for Love / In Praise of Love) (2001)

reference:Invisible Cities, by J. Hoberman (on Eloge de l'amour)

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0236/hoberman.php

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/godard.html

discussion points:

• "composition"
• course assignments
• note taking:Critical Reading http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/critrdg.html#1
• the relation of cultural studies to aesthetics
• Hedges "timeline" of 20th Century critical thought

  http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/timeline/uslit.htm

Starting Somewhere: Modernism and Formal Innovation

From The Cinema Alone; Essays on the Work of Jean-Luc Godard, 1985-2000

1. Michael Witt "Montage, My Beautiful Care or Histories of the Cinematograph"
2. Timothy Murray "The Crisis of Cinema in the Age of New World Memory: the Baroque Performance of King Lear"
3. (optional) Jonathan Dronsfield "The Present Never Exists There: The Temporality of Decision in Godard's Later Film and Video Essays"
4. Gertrude Stein, "Composition as Explanation" and "How To Write"
5. Patricia Meyerowitz Introduction to "How to Write"

discussion points: moderism post modernism and formal innovation

view: Endgame, Samuel Beckett (video)(exerpt)

guest: Jeff Derksen, poet, Assistant Professor SFU

1. Theodor Adorno, "Trying to Understand Endgame" (1961)
2. Brian O'Connor, "Introduction" The Adorno Reader
3. Samuel Beckett, Endgame, (1957) Endgame full text at:

http://www.samuel-beckett.net/endgame.html

discussion points:

• "identity thinking"
• creating without creating "meaning": Beckett/Adorno's "determinate negation" in relation to Stein's "continuous present" and Godard's "montage"(and Sarat Maharaj's "a vidya" the non-knowledge production of visual arts).

assign presentations

1. Sarat Maharaj, "Xeno-epistemics: Makeshift Kit for Sounding Visual Art as Knowledge Production and the Retinal Regimes". Documenta XI catalogue
2. Mieke Bal, "Mise-En-Scene", from Travelling Concepts in the Humanities (2002)

discussion points: Bal's key terms

Maharaj references

Intention

1. Mieke Bal, "Intention", from Travelling Concepts in the Humanities (2002)
2. Jonathan Culler, short exerpt from Roland Barthes (1983) (Not Available)
3. Jean Baudrillard, Simulations (1983) (excerpt)
4. Paul Virilio, "The Accident Museum","Light Time", A Landscape of Events, p. 43-60

Virilio's "Museum of Accidents" exhibition

http://www.onoci.net/virilio/pages_uk/virilio/avertissement.php?th=1&rub=1_1

Article by David Cook in C Theory is somewhat of an overview of Virilio's thought.

http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=360

discussion points:

• from divine proportions to chance procedures to simulation, the history of "intention" in artistic production

http://goldennumber.net/life.htm

golden section http://milan.milanovic.org/math/english/golden/golden5.html

Pythagoras and Music of the Spheres:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit3/unit3.html

Intersubjectivity (a term used by Bal)

cybernetics (Baudrillard)

http://www.cyber.reading.ac.uk/

On Reserve: Robert P. Crease, "Experimentation as a Performing Art", 74-102, "Performance and Production" 158-177, The Play of Nature: Experimentation as Performance

Composition and Aesthetic Experience

1. Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, "Percept, Affect, and Concept" , What is Philosophy?, 163-200

On Reserve: Emmanuel Kant, Critique of Judgement (excerpts)

Deleuze and Guattari Resources http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/d-g_html/d-g.html

deleuzeguattarionary http://cs.art.rmit.edu.au/deleuzeguattarionary/

guest: Laura U. Marks

Compositions In Time and Space

1. Fredrick Jameson, "Postmodernism or The Logic of Late Capitalism" (1989)

Student Presentations 1,2,3,4,5

On Reserve: David Harvey

Sound and Vision

1. Jaques Attali, "Composition", Noise The Political Economy of Music
2. Susan McClary "Afterword"
3. Michael Chion, " Lines and Points", "The Audiovisual Scene..." from Audio-vision:Sound on Screen (1994)

discussion:

Attali's idea of music as "prophetic"

On the economies of "representation" and "repetition."

Music and Violence and the organization of difference.

A talk by Attali available at:http://www.sinologic.com/newmusic/sub/attali.html

Attali's website: http://www.attali.com/

AACM website: http://www.aacmchicago.org/indexhold.html

Interview with George Lewis, an AACM member who is also a cultural theorist/musicologist writing about the history of AACM (and works with Vancouver's NOW Music Orchestra)

http://www.earshot.org/zine-arch.asp?NewsLetterID=8

Guest: Juan Gaitan

Essay outlines/essay outline due. Schedule Meetings in the next week to discuss.

Performance "vs" Composition

1. Richard Schechner, "Performativity" & "Performance" from Performance Studies, An Introduction (2002)

discussion points:

performativity

excerpt from Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/derrida.htm

May 1968, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968

Student Presentations 6,7,8,9,10

The Composition of Questions

1. Keith Potter "The Pursuit of the Unimaginable by the Unnarratable"
2. John Dack "Serial Thought:Past and Future" from Contemporary Music Review, Vol.15 part 3-4
3. David Rosenboom, "Propositional Music", from Arcana: Musicians on Music

First Draft of Papers Due for Peer Review

TBA

Reading Logs Due

Summary Discussion (rough notes in progress)

Final Papers due