FANTASY, FETISH, AND THE RADICAL IMAGINATION, @ 7 PM
JULY 7: What is the Revolutionary Art of the 21st century (Kristin Lawler)
︎ Marcuse, Eros and Civilization, Chapter ︎7, ︎8, and 9, The Aesthetic Dimension
Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism
Rosemont and Kelley, "Invisible Surrealists" and Robin Kelley, "Surrealism and the Creation of a Desirable Future" in Black, Brown, and Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora
Franklin Rosemont, Report on the Surrealist Movement in the United States, in Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion, vol. I
Crary, Scorched Earth, Chapter 3 (36)
JULY 8: Society of the Spectacle (Michael Pelias)
Guy Debord, Society of the Spectavcle, AK Press, 2000
JULY 11: On Symbolic Misery (Michael Pelias)
Bernard Stiegler, Symbolic Misery, Volume 1: The Hyperindustrial Epoch, Polity, 2014
JULY 12: Fantasy, Fetish, and the Radical Imagination - Part I (Paul Reynolds)
Walter Benjamin (nd) The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction New York Prism Key Press (it’s a very short essay spread over a lot of pages)
Lucie Drdova and Steven Saxonberg (2020) Dilemmas of a subculture: An analysis of BDSM blogs about Fifty Shades of Grey Sexualities, Vol. 23 (5–6) 987–1008
Herbert Marcuse (1978) The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics Boston: Beacon Press (This is relatively easy to read and you should atleast read chapter 1 – the rest can be skimmed)
Margot D. Weiss PhD (2006) Mainstreaming Kink, Journal of Homosexuality, 50: 2-3, 103-132