Calendar for Discussion Leaders (names are in red next to topic title)
(per 05 September 2013)
CALENDAR
Note:

Readings are listed under week they are due.
Full citations appear on the readings.

Week 1

05 September

Course Introduction

Week 2

12 September

Attfield Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life (everyone bring questions/comments) Chapter 1: “The Meaning of Design: Things with Attitude” (10-43)

Week 3

19 September

THINGS (Brittany Galloway)
Attfield Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life
Chapter 2: “The Meaning of Design: design in the lower case” (45-73)
View:
“Princess TamTam” or “Objectification” (in class) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsOOWIuWI_o Week 4

26 September

RESISTANCE (Lindsey Moore)
Due:
1-minute essay topic proposal (oral)
Heller The Graphic Design Reader
“Barbara Kruger, Graphic Designer?” (205-211)
Erlanger “Point, Shoot, Retouch and Label?” NYT 02.12.09
Klein No Logo
“The Brand Expands” and “Alt. Everything” (27-62)

Week 5

03 October

PHOTOGRAPHY & THINGS (Yulia Grebyonkina)
Sontag On Photography (4-24)
Frosh The Image Factory (49-52)
Trebay “Places, Everyone! Take the Usual Places.” NYT 17.02.10

Week 6

10 October

PHOTOGRAPHY & FASHION (Lily Williams/Maiya Wiester)
Avedon/Israel/Arbus and Fashion
Bosworth Diane Arbus (218-242)
Horne “How Avedon Blurred His Own Image” NYT 14.05.09
View:
Charlie Rose Interviews from 1996/1999/2004 (in class)

Week 7

17 October

PHOTOGRAPHY & REPRESENTATION (Oliver Padilla)
Due:
3 page essay (no reading responses due this week)
1-minute oral proposal of research paper topic.
Field Trip: Meet at [TBD]
Schjeldahl “Alien Emotions” The New Yorker 04.05.09
Kennedy “New Works by Photography’s Old Masters” NYT 30.04.09
Bogue Deleuze on Cinema (2-48)
Tagg The Burden of Representation (66-71)

Week 8

24 October

IMAGE/CAPITAL/BRAND (Sirat Buck/Brandon Bateman)
Due:
150 word proposal for research paper topic (no reading responses due this week) Sennett The Culture of the New Capitalism (139-172)
Schor “Competitive Consumption: The Overspent American”
Barthes Mythologies (36-43, 86-87)

Sweeney “Avon’s Little Sister Is Calling” NYT 12.01.10
Colman “Custom-Made Is Spreading Far Beyond Savile Row” NYT 03.02.10
Clifford “Branding Comes Early in Filmmaking Process” NYT 04.04.10

Week 9

31 October

ADVERTISING & STUFF (Tori Manferdelli/Cassandra Conlin)
Due:
Complete Outline and Annotated Bibliography for Paper
Schultze “An Honorable Place” The Business History Review (16-32)
Barbaro “What’s Hot, What’s Not in Stores” NYT 23.11.06
Ryzik “Mapping the Cultural Buzz: How Cool Is That?” NYT 07.04.09

Week 10 07 November

FASHION & TASTE (Crystal Galloway)
Cranz “A New Way of Thinking about Taste” (Lark Books NY:2004)
Sparke “The Architect’s Wife” As Long As It’s Pink (1-12)
Wilson “Irresistible and Affordable” NYT 02.04.09
La Ferla “Always in Her Element” NYT 07.05.09
Kakutani “Brand Che: