Ses # | Themes | Key Dates |
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1 | Introduction | |
2 |
Haunting Exterior vs. Interior (Outside vs. Inside) Escape vs. Entrance | |
3 |
The Flaneur Close Reading, Slow Reading | |
4 |
Man of the Crowd / Man of the World The Presence of the Past / Palimpsests | |
5 |
Panopticism Metonymy Asyndeton | |
6 | Literary Snow and Rain Days | |
7 | Saturday and Mrs. Dalloway: A Tale of Two Openings | |
8 |
Post 9/11 and Trauma Ethics Failures, Triumphs, and Limits of the Imagination | |
9 |
Security and Invasion Psychological and Architextural Interiority | |
10 | Brain/Mind/City: Networks and Systems | |
11 | Re-Reading Day | Re-Reading Assignment #1 Due |
12 | Geography and Representation | |
13 | Haunting and Estrangement | Paper #1 Due |
14 |
Defamiliarization Intersectionality: Race, Class, and Gender | |
15 |
Vantage Points Race and Space Race and Representation The Uses of Genre | MIT Senseable City Lab Class Visit |
16 |
Love Stories and Romance Plots Home, Homeland, and Homecoming | |
17 |
Windows Stereoscopic | |
18 | Frames, Windows, and Cosmopolitanism | |
19 | Inclusion and Exclusion | Paper #2 Due |
20 |
Glitches, Cuts, Tears, and Splices A World Re-Arranged Back to the Future Benjamin's Aura Beyond Symbolism: Circulating Objects, Found Objects | |
21 |
Uncanny The Sublime Collage Irony | |
22 |
From Irony to Sincerity?: Structure and Trajectory Storms, Circulating Systems, and Flickering Lights | |
23 | Nature in the City | |
24 | Re-Reading Day | Re-Reading Assignment #2 Due |
25 | Presentation of Final Creative Projects | Creative Street Haunting Assignment Due |