 Assoc. Prof. Cultural Studies Pratt Institute BRBrownIII@earthlink.net - |
Course Materials "We all fail in our efforts to presentthe essentials of culture to our students. It remains for their genius to convert our failure into success. " Alfred North WhiteheadT |
| Vita Fragments Ruins blog | |
| Cultural Studies Sections I-II SS.330.01-02 Spring 2010 | Marx,
Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud: Value, Transvaluation and Society SS. 490.05 | Michel
Foucault & Critical Theory SS. 490 | On the History of
Science & the Origins of Race SS. 490 |
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| Slides for Spring 2010 Archived Slides | Slides for 1st Darwin session | Course Questions |
| Resources for these Courses |
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 Charles Darwin |
Cambridge
University Darwin Project: The Complete Works, Manuscrpts, Works on Darwin, etc. Darwin Correspondence Project Voyage of the Beagle in Blog format Darwin's Home: Downe House American Museum of Natural History: Darwin Exhibition American Museum of Natural History: Darwin Digital Library of Evolution New York
Botanical Garden Maps of Ancient Earth It is important to remember that the Earth has not always looked as it does today. | Biodiversity
Heritage Library Census of Marine Life Tree of Life Project Evolution of Evolution: 150 Years of Darwin's On the Origin of Species National Science Foundation The BBC's extensive Darwin Page BBC Slideshow of Darwin's Beagle Notebooks Melvyn Bragg's series of Darwin programs. Check out the In Our Time audio archives as well. New York Times' Darwin page |
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 Karl Marx  | See especially the works of Rosa Luxemberg , Professor of Economics & author of the first sustained critique of Marx's Capital in her Accumulation of Capital, and leader of the Spartacus rebellion; and I. I. Rubin, Professor of Economic History, whose view that Marx presented a theory and critique of culture ---and not a science of society--- earned him a death in the Gulag. A reading of these will provide a foundation as well to understanding the marxism in the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. Many
of the translations of Marx date from the Soviet era, and although
sometimes the differences can be subtle, the effect of the politics of
the era on the translations could itself be the subject of a
course.
We will use the Penguin Classics translation, which is considered more up to date. Genealogical Sources for the Study of Karl Marx (unfinished fragment, but you will get the idea) Bibliography on Karl Marx and Marxism from Stanley Aronowitz's course: "Marx," CUNY Graduate Center, 1996. | |
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Nietzsche
| The Nietzsche Channel Friedrich Nietzsche Society There are a number of tranlations of Nietzsche online, but we will use the standard translations by Walter Kaufmann. These are not online. | |
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 Sigmund Freud  | Sigmund Freud
Museum,
London Research Centre: Letters, Documents, Prints Sigmund Freud Archives Sigmund Freud and the Freud Archives Freud Museum, Vienna Sigmund Freud Radio Talk on the BBC | |
 Michel Foucault
& Critical Theory  |
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 On the History of Science & the Origins of Race |
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Obsolete Syllabi
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From the Archives: The Formation of Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute ________________________________________________
Cultural Studies
Syllabi Spring
1997, Spring 1998,
Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2003, Spring 2004,
Fall 2004, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008. ________________ Methods of Cultural Analysis Syllabi Spring
1998, Spring
1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001.
________________ Controversies in Cultural Theory Syllabi Fall
1997; Fall
1998: The
Social Text Affair, Postmodernism,
& Science Studies; Fall 1999: Marx and Nietzsche Co-taught with Prof. Sameetah Agha. Syllabus included in Teaching
Sociology from a Marxist Perspective, 2nd ed. Washington,
D.C.: American Sociological Association; 2000: Cultural Studies, Science, and Society; Spring 2001. ________________ Spaces, Movements, Identities Syllabi
co-taught
with Prof. W. Menking's Communities,
Cultures,
Places course.
Syllabus included in Teaching Sociology from a Marxist Perspective, 1st and 2nd eds., Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association. Political Institutions Syllabi Fall
1997, Fall 1999,
Spring 2004, Spring 2005,
Spring 2006, Fall 2006.
Societies of Control
SyllabiIntroductory Sociology:
The Ends & Uses of Society Syllabi
Syllabus
included in Teaching Sociology from a
Marxist Perspective,1st and 2nd eds., Washington, D.C.: American
Sociological Association.
Perception
Syllabi& Creativity Fall 1997; Fall 1998; Fall 1999. ________________ Cultural Studies Praxis I:
SyllabusFrom Work to Text Spring 2004. ________________ The Uses of Terror
Fall
2004
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Rights & Responsibilities Bard College. Syllabus Fall, 1994 _______________ Fixity, Succession, Progress,
& Degeneration: Cuvier, Hegel, Spencer, Lombroso (syllabus
tba)
_______________ Nature (syllabus tba) _______________ Sociology The Ends & Uses of Society (syllabus tba) |
