The Question
Analyze two or three examples of cultural, national, or transnationalresponses/solutions to the challenges faced by these populations from the late nineteenth through the first third of the twentieth century.
Make sure that your answer engages with ALL of the required reading (Gomez, Jones, Jacques-Garvey, Lovelace, Watkins-Owens), as well as incorporates at least one of the two documentaries, Against the Odds or Ilê Aiyê .
Conciousness art & Technology
Choice of questions which focuses on the discussion of art in twentieth century philosophy.
1. What does Benjamin mean by aura, and why and how do film and photography transform the character of the work of art?
2. What is at stake in Barthes’ discussion of the death of the author?
3. To what extent do Benjamin, Barthes and Foucault share common ground in their conceptions of the work of art?
4. What does Heidegger accomplish in his discussion of earth and world in ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’?
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