May 30:
John Dewey’s [1934] “The Live Creature,” in Art as Experience (reprint by New York: Pedigree, 1980); this is a surprisingly proto-Cagean, and biologically motivated, meditation on of the life of art outside of museums and institutions.
Margaret Morse, ”An Ontology of Everyday Distraction: the Freeway, the Mall, and Television” in
Optional support materials:
1. Wolfgang Schivelbusch (1977) “Railroad space and railroad time” in The Railway Journey: Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century (New York: Urizen), pp. 33-69.
2. [Very Short]: “Just in Time.” Originally on <http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/>
3. Also by Margaret Morse (1989) “The Body, the Image, and the Space-in-between: video installation art” (on the same pdf as “An Ontology of Everyday Distraction…”, linked above)
June 6:
Introduction to Donna Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm, 2003). [Focus especially on “Companions” and “Species,” pp 11-25].
Chapter 1-3 of Joan Roughgarden’s Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People (Los Angeles: University of California, 2004).
Prepared excerpts of Kaminski, Call, Fischer, et al. (2004) on “Fast Mapping” in the psychology of humans and domestic dogs, with critical responses from Bloom, and Topál, Gergely, Erdöhegy, Csibra, & Miklósi. (You will need access as a UCSC student to the library’s portal, in order to read these articles.)