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Hillis Miller Mini-Seminar - Mixed Media Forever

Mixed Media Forever

This seminar will develop and illustrate a method of interpreting works in mixed
media. The seminar’s presupposition is that media, in Western cultures at least,
have always tended to be mixed. This is sometimes forgotten, for example in
readings of Victorian novels that no longer remember they were almost always
illustrated. Special procedures are necessary for interpreting works in mixed
media.

The first seminar will develop a theory of mixed media based on work by Guy
Debord, Jean Baudrillard, and others. The theory will be exemplified in readings of
a New Yorker cover (23 July 2012) and an advertisement for Smartwater® in Wired
Magazine (20.08). Copies of these will be made available.

See Debord’s La Société du spectacle (1973) (The Society of the Spectacle) and
Jean Budrillard’s Simulacres et Simulation (1981) (Simulacra and Simulation).

See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle_(film);
http://www.imd.com/title/tt0070712/; http://video.google.com/videoplay?
docid=-6113599464218751854

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality

The second seminar will turn to Thomas Hardy’s early novel, Under the
Greenwood Tree, or: The Mellstock Quire (1872), as another example of mixed
media. The four photographs that illustrate the 1920 Anniversary edition will be
made available. Some participants may wish to read the novel beforehand, though
the seminar will be comprehensible without that. A recent CD reconstructing with
period instruments the probable sound of the Mellstock Quire will be sampled, to
add a third medium to the mix.

At least half an hour will be reserved at the end of each seminar for discussion.

Attachments (.pdf files)

The Government of the Self and Others

Lecture 9 March 1983 - 1st Hour

Lecture 2 March 1983 - 1st Hour

Lecture 2 Feb1983 - 1st Hour

Lecture 12 Jan 1983 - 1st Hour

Lecture 12 Jan 1983 - 2ndHour

"Simulations" - Jean Baudrillard

Page 1-35

Page 35-79

The Courage of the Truth

Lecture 22 Feb - 2nd hour

Lecture 29 Feb - 1st hour

Lecture 7 March - 2nd hour

Lecture 28 March - 1st hour


Declarations on the Right to Insubordination in the War in Algeria

Foucault

Foucault - A Preface to Transgression

Foucault - The Order of Discourse