Assignments for today
- Theory Toolbox, Chapter 4 (‘Subjectivity’)
- John Berger, Ways of Seeing, Chapter 3
- Susan Sontag, "In Plato's Cave," On Photography, pp. 1-18
- Questions: Berger and Sontag
For further reading and research
- John Berger's Ways of Seeing (film). I am hoping to show Episode Three in class.
- Diane Arbus photo collection.
- Suzanna Walters, "Visual Pressures: On Gender and Looking," in Material Girls: Making Sense of Feminist Cultural Theory, Chapter 2.
- Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins, "The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes: The Example of National Geographic," Visual Anthropology Review, Vol. 7, No. 1 (1991), pp. 134-149.
- Theory Toolbox, "Life"
- Al Jazeera, Slavery: A 21st Century Evil (a documentary series)
- Michelle Chen, "Slavery in Our Time," In These Times, July 21, 2010.
- Maurizio Lazzarato, "From Biopower to Biopolitics," Pli, Volume 13, Foucault: Madness/Sexuality/Biopolitics (2002):100-112.
