What was socialism, and what comes next?

Stephen Cohen, Rethinking the Soviet experience: politics and history since 1917 (oxford, 1985) Dorothy Rosenberg, "Shock Therapy: GDR women in Transition from a socialist welfare state to a social Market economy," signs 17 (1991): 129-51

beautiful circuits

John Durham Peters, Speaking into the Air: A history of the idea of communication Rosalind Krauss "a voyage on the north sea:" art in the age of the post-medium condition Michael North, camera works: photography and the twentieth-century word Thomas Foster, The souls of cyberfolk: post humanism as vernacular theory Francis Frascina ed., Pollack and after: The critical debate (essays that deal with or argue against Clement Greenberg's notion of media specificity) p8-9 (m)ugh of the newness that is attributed to new media art and culture is understood to render obsolete the sense of modernism and medium specificity(modernism as medium specificity) championed most notably by Clement Greenberg. "It quickly emerged," writes Greenberg in his 1960s essay "modernist painting," "that the unique and proper area of competence of each art coincided with all hat was unique in the nature of its medium." Identifying modernism with a commitment to the physical constraints and artistic conventions of individual mediums- so that to engage with their materiality is not just to discover but to delimit their ideal realms of practice and technique-- Greenberg's arguments remain a point of departure fro many writers seeking to understand the forms of multimedia, or new media art that follow modernism proper. Thus when Rosalind Krauss suggests that we are now in a "post-medium condition," she all but admits the what she means to say is "post-Grenberg." And for Hansen, even this is not saying enough: Krauss's"reconceptualization of the medium" remains incapable of "grasping the aesthetic newness of new media art" because this art is designed to address the body "as a selective processor of information" whose "medial interfaces" displace and transform the very material limits of the art object with which traditional notions of the medium contend. New media art is defined by "its resistance to capture by now dated, historical forms of art and media criticism." The very notion of the "medium" and its aesthetic epistemology is no more bleeding edge than Betamax.

translation and film

Spring 2011-2012 EAS 352 / COM 348 (LA) na, npdf Language in Film: Expression and Translation Kerim Yasar We will employ both historical and theoretical approaches to explore the subtleties of filmic dialogue, the reciprocally sustaining and contrapuntal relationships between word and image in the cinematic text, the history of film translation, and the conditions--linguistic, technological, social, and economic--within which screenplays are written and produced, and within which subtitling and dubbing take place. The syllabus will focus primarily on Japan and the United States, but students will be encouraged to draw upon their knowledge of other traditions as well. Sample reading list: Yasujiro Ozu, Late Spring Jean-Luc Godard, Pierrot le Fou David Milch, Deadwood Paul Schrader, Mishima Sarah Kozloff, Overhearing Film Dialogue Markus Nornes, Cinema Babel: Translating Global Cinema

socialist and postsocialist women

Buckley, Mary. 1989 Women and Ideology in the Soviet Union Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press Burawoy, Michael, and Katherine Verdery, eds. 1999 Uncertain transitions: Ethnographies of change in the post socialist world Clements, Barbara Evans. 1997 Bolshevik Women Nanette Funk and Magda Mueller eds 1993 Gender Politics and Post-Communism: reflections from East Europe and the former soviet Union Gal, Susan and Gail Kligman, eds. 2000 Reproducing gender: politics, publics, and everyday life after socialism

文革研究

王明贤 《红卫兵美术运动》 《二十一世纪》1995 no8 王绍光 《拓展文革研究的视野》 1990 no9 法国大革命研究的启发？ 《理性与疯狂：文化大革命中的群众》

科学主义

刘青峰 《二十世纪中国科学主义两次兴起》 《二十一世纪》1991NO4 申小龙 《人文精神， 还是科学主义》

what was socialism, and what comes next? Katherine Verdery

p15 transition vs transformation "a time of transformation the countries that have emerged from socialism" p12 "I see my overall theme as exploring how the operation of socialism influences what comes next" p64 socialist paternalism constructed its "nation" on on implicit view of society as a family, headed by a "wise" party that, in a paternal guise, made all the family's allocative decisions s to who should produce what and who should receive what reward-- thus a "parent state". p65 One might say that it broke open the nuclear family, socialized significant elements of reproduction even while leaving women responsible for the rest, and usurped certain patriarchal functions and responsibilities, thereby altering the relation between gendered "domestic" and "public" spheres familiar from nineteenth-century capitalism.