Whoops!, I got behind with my Blogging there. Sorry I meant to post something here last night but am working on many courses simultaneously, supervising lots of dissertations and contributing to a show at present.
Anyway, today I am just preparing to close read Bourriaud's Altermodern essay in terms of History, and hoping that by going through it with you we can perhaps glean more from it than you might previously have done in terms of 'The Uses 0f History'.
I'm used to filling two hour seminar sessions so these one and a half hour sessions are going to be rather crammed I think. I also have the tendency to fill the session with my own thoughts so students are advised to break in and raise their voice -but I will of course invite questions and try to allocate time for discussion throughout.
In making some preparations I also re-encountered one or two other favourite texts relating to our theme and I will try to photocopy all so that, even if the sessions and the course are quite short, you will have the materials to develop your interests and continue your discussions.
These other texts are: a reading of a section of W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz, Charles Baudelaire's On The Heroism Of Modern Life (1846) and a small extract from J.D. Sallinger's The Catcher In The Rye where he describes the child's experience of the museum.
Hopefully we can make some useful connections here. There are of course many,many artists we could discuss today, including and in addition to those raised by Bourriaud e.g. Jimmie Durham remains a vital force I think in terms of this debate. We will do our best to keep this session about the contemporary so that next week we can make a change of gear towards the philosophical considerations of Walter Benjamin informed by Marx, Hegel, Surrealism etc.
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