INTRODUCING 'The Uses of History'

This Option for Chelsea college is in four weekly sessions.

I have decided to take a semi-lecture / semi-seminar approach.

I have roughly broken the Option down into four themes.

12 / 11 / 09 Week One: 'My Histories' - Introduction of general content and presentation of my own Paper (PhD extract) 'Giving Form To History' - Plus Q& A session.

19 / 11 / 09 Week Two: 'Bourriaud's Histories' - Close reading of Nicolas Bourriaud's 'Altermodern' catalogue preface with particular attention to references to History and artists (also implicating other Bourriaud texts. -Plus Q&A session.

26 / 11 / 09 Week three: 'Walter Benjamin and Historical Materialism' - Close reading of Walter Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History Plus Q&A

03 / 12 / 09 Week Four: 'Dark Horses & Hollow Men'- the record of time in monuments photographs, memoir and film. Plus Q&A

I will use thsis blog to briefly reflect on each session and point students to readings, spelllings or other information they might want to pursue. However, you can contribute and respond in any way that is useful to the group and the subject of the seminar.