Monthly Readings
Currently, CAAS participants are engaging upon a reading project. At each of our monthly meetings, we come prepared to discuss a pre-selected set of short readings concerning the annual mission investigative question. At the beginning of the academic year, CAAS Participants sign up to lead one meeting's discussion; they pick the readings for that month, and lead discussion of the reading at the meeting.
Readings for 2007-8:
- Nicolas Bourriaud, from Relational Aesthetics
- Lisa Gye, Anna Munster, and Ingrid Richardson, "Distributed Aesthetics"
- Darren Tofts, "& beyond: anticipating distributed aesthetics"
- Gary Saul Morson, “Essential Narrative: Tempics and the Return of Process”
- Essays by Melissa C. Nash; Rosemary Garland Thomson; Carrie Sandhal and Philip Auslander in Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance
- Christopher Nealon, "Camp Messianism, or, the Hopes of Poetry in Late-Late Capitalism" and sample poems by Joshua Clover
- Karl F. Morrison, selections from "I am You": The Hermeneutics of Empathy in Western Literature, Theology, and Art
- Jill Bennett, selection from Empathetic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art
- ArtForum Special issue on Jacques Ranciere, with article by Ranciere
Readings for 2006-2007:
- Eve Sedgwick, from Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
- John Guillory, "Literary Study and the Modern System of the Disciplines"
- Michael Carter, from Where Writing Begins: A Postmodern Reconstruction
- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, from The Production of Presence
- Jed Perl, "Formalism and Its Discontents: A Theory of How the Art World Went to Hell"
- Marianne Hirsch, "What's Wrong with These Terms? A Conversation with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Diana Taylor"
- Joy Williams, "The Last Generation"
- John Barth, "The Literature of Exhaustion"
- James Wood, from The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel
- R.M. Berry, "The Avant-garde and the Question of Literature"
- Roundtable discussion, "The Predicament of ContemporaryArt," from Art Since 1900
- Geoff King, from American Independent Cinema
- Thomas Schatz, from Film Theory Goes to the Movies
- Alexander G. Weheliye, from Phonograpies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity