postmodernisms hum 2052: civilization ii spring 2013 dr. perdigao april 22-24, 2013
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René Magritte, Time Transfixed (1939)
http://vr.theatre.ntu.edu.tw/hlee/course/th6_520/sty_20c/painting/magritte-01X.jpg
René Magritte, Not to Be Reproduced (1937)
http://psyc.queensu.ca/~psyc382/magritte-notrepro.jpg
René Magritte, The False Mirror (1928)
http://www.rogallery.com/_RG-Images/Magritte/Magritte-The_False_Mirror.jpg
Escher, Eye (1946)
http://www.globalgallery.com/prod_images/600/esc-e55.jpg
On Donnie• http://www.donniedarkofilm.com/
• Eye—in poster, eye on engine, dream with sky (back to Magritte?)
• Graham Greene’s The Destructors
• Grandma Death
• The Philosophy of Time Travel
• Hawking’s A Brief History of Time
• Wormhole, time travel
• “Where’s Donnie?”
Mapping• Ideas about civilization, self and other, civilized and savage: Of
Cannibals; Frankenstein; Heart of Darkness; Valéry; Spengler; Freud; Serenity; Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber; Slaughterhouse-Five
• Politics and power: The Prince; Hamlet; Marx and Engels; Notes from Underground; Heart of Darkness; Serenity
• Religion: Don Quixote; Hamlet; Candide; Frankenstein; Heart of Darkness; Sartre; Slaughterhouse-Five; Donnie Darko
• Science: Candide; Frankenstein; Darwin; Freud; Notes from Underground; The Garden of Forking Paths; Donnie Darko
• Gender politics: Don Quixote; Hamlet; Candide; Sophia; Von Hippel; Frankenstein; Notes from Underground; Heart of Darkness
• Identity crises and play: Don Quixote; Hamlet; Six Characters in Search of an Author; Slaughterhouse-Five; Donnie Darko
• Ideas about textuality, the place of art, literature: Don Quixote; Frankenstein; Six Characters in Search of an Author; Slaughterhouse-Five; The Garden of Forking Paths
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