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First Year Students (First Group) Enrolled in summer residency: May 26 – June 17, 2005.


MEDIA SOUNDS Michael Schmidt | DJ Spooky (aka Paul D. Miller)
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Nyman, Michael. Experimental Music : Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth Century). Cambridge University Press. October 1999, 210 pages, 2nd edition, Paperback, ISBN: 0521653835. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Paul D.Miller: Rhythm Science. (Mediaworks Pamphlets). Paperback, The MIT Press. ISBN: 026263287X Amazon.com.

Suggested Reading:
Cage, John. Empty Words. Wesleyan University Press. November 1981, Paperback, ISBN: 0819560677. Buy it at Amazon.com.


LITERATURE AS COMMUNICATION Martin Hielscher
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, Robert Hullot-Kentor (Editor) Aesthetic Theory Paperback, 448 pages (December 1998) Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt); ISBN: 0816618003. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Michel Houellebecq, Frank Wynne (Translator) The Elementary Particles Paperback, 272 pages, Vintage, ISBN: 0375727019. Buy it at Amazon.com.


NANOPHILOSOPHY: INVISIBLE REVOLUTION Allucquére Rosanne Stone
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press; ISBN: 0192860925 Buy it at Amazon.com.

Suggested Reading:
Theodore Sturgeon, Paul Wiliams, Microcosmic God: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon (Sturgeon, Theodore. Short Stories, V. 2.) North Atlantic Books, ISBN: 1556433018. Buy it at Amazon.com.


ISSUES IN ELECTRACY Gregory Ulmer
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Ulmer, Gregory: Teletheory. Atropos Press New York 2004 (book will be mailed to students)

Ulmer, Gregory. Heuretics - The Logic of Invention. Johns Hopkins University Press. May 1994, Hardcover, ISBN: 0801847176. Buy it at Amazon.com. May 1994, 267 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0801847184. Buy it at Amazon.com.


FILM WRITING — cinécriture Agnès Varda
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Alison Smith, Agnès Varda (French Film Directors). Paperback: 240 pages, Manchester University Press (July 15, 1998), ISBN: 0719050618. Buy it at Amazon.com.



First Year Students (Second Group) Enrolled in summer residency: May 26 – June 17, 2005.


GILLES DELEUZE AND SCIENCE Manuel DeLanda
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Manuel Delanda Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy 256 pages, Continuum, (May 2002) ISBN: 0826456235. Buy it at Amazon.com.


NIETZSCHE AND 20th CENTURY THOUGHT Fred Ulfers
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Walter Kaufmann (Translator), Friedrich Nietzsche The Gay Science : With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Song 416 pages, Vintage. ISBN: 0394719859. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Friedrich Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy 96 pages, Dover Pubns. ISBN: 0486285154. Buy it at Amazon.com.


MEDIA AND THE UNCANNY Samuel Weber
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Samuel Weber, Theatricality As Medium, Paperback, 408 pages, Fordham University Press, ISBN: 0823224163. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Samuel Weber, Targets Of Opportunity: On The Militarization Of Thinking, 152 pages, Fordham University Press, ISBN: 0823224759. Buy it at Amazon.com.


INTERNET STUDIES: INTERNET STUDIES: THE OPEN SOURCE Hendrik Speck with Richard Stallman
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
TBA


FILM ARTS: CINEMATIC LANGUAGES Atom Egoyan
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
TBA


CONFESSIONAL ART & FILM Tracey Emin
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
TBA



First Year Students Enrolled in summer residency: July 31 – August 22, 2005.


HEIDEGGER: PHILOSOPHY AND ART Christopher Fynsk
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Martin Heidegger (Author), David Farell Krell (Editor) Basic Writings : Second Edition, Revised and Expanded. Paperback, 464 pages, Harper San Francisco; 2nd edition (February 26, 1993) ISBN: 0060637633. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Christopher Fynsk, Infant Figures: The Death of the 'Infans' and Other Scenes of Origin. Paperback, 199 pages, Stanford University Press (December 2000), ISBN: 0804734089. Buy it at Amazon.com.


POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY Judith Balso with Pierre Alferi
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Wallave Stevens. The Necessary Angel Paperback: 192 pages, Vintage, ISBN: 0394702786. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Wallave Stevens. Collected Poems Paperback: 560 pages, Vintage; Reissue edition (February 19, 1990), ISBN: 0679726691. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown. Poems of Fernando Pessoa Paperback: 240 pages, City Lights Publishers; Reprint edition (June 1, 1998), ISBN: 0872863425. Buy it at Amazon.com.


ETHICS AND POLITICS AFTER THE SUBJECT Judith Butler
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence. Hardcover: 160 pages, Verso Books (May 6, 2004), ISBN: 1844670058. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection. Paperback: 216 pages, Stanford University Press, (June 1997) ISBN: 0804728127. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Suggested Reading Assignments:
Judith Butler, Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death. Paperback: 112 pages, Columbia University Press, (March 15, 2002) ISBN: 0231118953. Buy it at Amazon.com.


MEDIA AESTHETICS Wolfgang Schirmacher
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Lyotard, Jean-François, Georges Van Den Abbeele, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 46). Paperback: 208 pages, University of Minnesota Press (December 1, 1988), ISBN: 0816616116. Buy it at Amazon.fr.

Deleuze, Gilles and Tom Conley (Translation). The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque. University of Minnesota Press. January 1993, 192 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 0816615985. Buy it at Amazon.com. November 1992, 168 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0816616019. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Emmanuel Levinas, Nidra Poller, Richard A. Cohen Humanism of the Other. Hardcover: 144 pages, University of Illinois Press (October 1, 2003), ISBN: 02520284065. Buy it at Amazon.com.


AUDIOVISUAL HISTORY AND TECHNOCULTURE Siegfried Zielinski
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Siegfried Zielinski. Audiovisions : Cinema and Television As Entr'Actes in History (Film Culture in Transition). Amsterdam University Press. June 1999, Paperback, ISBN: 905356313X. Buy it at Amazon.com.


CINEMA FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM Peter Greenaway
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Greenaway, Peter, Marguerite Gras (Editor) and Vernon Gras (Editor). Peter Greenaway: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series). University Press of Mississippi. July 2000, 256 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 1578062543. Buy it at Amazon.com. July 2000, 256 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 1578062551. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Peter Greenaway: 100 Allegories to Represent the World. Paperback: 277 pages, Merrell Holberton (December 1, 1998), ISBN: 1858940605. Buy it at Amazon.com.



Second-Year Students (First Group) enrolled in summer residency: May 26 – June 17, 2005.


THINKING THE VIRTUAL AND THE REAL Jean Baudrillard
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner (Translator). Passwords. Verso Books; ISBN: 1859844634; (November 2003). Buy it at Amazon.com.

Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Mourrain (Translator), Mark Poster (Editor) Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings. 288 pages, Stanford University Press (June 2001), Paperback, ISBN: 0804742731. Buy it at Amazon.com.


MEDIA ART Antony Gormley
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Antony Gormley. Antony Gormley: Standing Matter Paperback: 77 pages, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (August 15, 2004), ISBN: 2910055167. Buy it at Amazon.com.

John Hutchison. Antony Gormley Paperback: 212 pages, Phaidon Press; 2nd edition (January 10, 2000) ISBN: 0714839523. Buy it at Amazon.com.


DIFFERENCE IN WRITING AND SOCIAL LIFE Hélène Cixous
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Hélène Cixous. Stigmata: Escaping Texts Paperback: 224 pages, Routledge (December 1, 1998). ISBN: 0415179793. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Hélène Cixous, Keith Cohen. The Third Body Hardcover: 161 pages, Hydra Books (August 1, 1999), ISBN: 0810116871. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Hélène Cixous. The Writing Notebooks of Hélène Cixous (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers Series) Paperback: 126 pages, Continuum International Publishing Group (May 1, 2004), ISBN: 0826469922. Buy it at Amazon.com.


MEDIA CULTURE FOR ARTIFICIAL LIFE Wolfgang Schirmacher
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
McNeill, William and Karen Feldman. Continental Philosophy: An Anthology Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies, 6). Blackwell Publishers. April 1998, 656 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 1557867003. Buy it at Amazon.com. July 1998, 656 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 1557865612. Buy it at Amazon.com. Wolfgang Schirmacher (ed), German 20th Century Philosophical Writings Continuum (December 2003) Paperback: 320 pages,ISBN: 0826413595. Buy it at Amazon.com.Also in Hardback: 320 pages,ISBN: 0826413587. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Martin Heidegger (Author), David Farell Krell (Editor) Basic Writings : Second Edition, Revised and Expanded. Paperback, 464 pages, Harper San Francisco; 2nd edition (February 26, 1993) ISBN: 0060637633. Buy it at Amazon.com.


ART, PSYCHOANALYSIS, PHILOSOPHY: THE MATRIXIAL BORDERSPACE Bracha Ettinger
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
TBA


CINEMA AS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Claire Denis
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Martine Beugnet, Claire Denis (French Film Directors). Paperback: 256 pages, Manchester University Press, (September 4, 2004) ISBN: 0719064813. Buy it at Amazon.com.



Second-Year Students (Second Group) enrolled in summer residency: May 26 – June 17, 2005.


ART, COMMUNITY AND FREEDOM Jean-Luc Nancy
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Nancy, Jean-Luc. Être singulier pluriel. Collection La Philosophie en effet. Galilée. Paris, 1996, 210 pages, Paperback (Broché), ISBN: 2718604700. Buy it at Amazon.fr. Robert D. Richardson, Anne E. O'Byrne (Translation). Being singular plural. Meridian. Stanford University Press. Stanford, California, November 2000, 207 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 0804739749. Buy it at Amazon.com. 256 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0804739757. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Nancy, Jean-Luc, A Finite Thinking (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Jean-Luc Nancy, Simon Sparks. Paperback, 320 pages, Publisher: Stanford University Press (October 1, 2003) ISBN: 0804739013. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Nancy, Jean-Luc, The Muses. Stanford University Press. Stanford, California. ISBN: 0804727813. Buy it at Amazon.com

Suggested Reading Assignments:
Nancy, Jean-Luc. Multiple Arts: Muses II, Paperback: 304 pages, Stanford University Press (November 15, 2004), ISBN: 0804739544. Buy it at Amazon.com

PHILOSOPHY AND POETRY Martin Hielscher with Durs Grünbein
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Michel Foucault, Paul Rabinow (Editor), Nikolas Rose(Introduction) The Essential Foucault 416 pages, New Press, ISBN: 1565848012. 2003. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Hans Georg Gadamer, Richard Heinemann (Editor),Bruce Krajewski (Editor), Gerald L. Bruns (Introduction) Gadamer on Celan: "Who Am I and Who Are You?" and Other Essays (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy). Hardcover, 192 pages, State Univ of New York Press; (March 1997) ISBN: 0791432297. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Suggested Reading Assignments:
Paul Celan, Michael Hamburger (Translator), Poems of Paul Celan: A Bilingual German/English Edition, Revised Edition. Paperback: 416 pages, Persea Books; Revised edition (November 2002) ISBN: 089255276X. Buy it at Amazon.com.


MEDIA PHILOSOPHY Wolfgang Schirmacher
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Avital Ronell, The Test Drive. Hardcover: 356 pages, University of Illinois Press (October 28, 2004), ISBN: 025202950X. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Deleuze, Gilles and Tom Conley (Translation). The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque. University of Minnesota Press. January 1993, 192 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 0816615985. Buy it at Amazon.com. November 1992, 168 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0816616019. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Suggested Reading Assignments:
David Farell Krell (ed.) Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings Vol. 1 Harper Collins, (January 1993) Paperback: 397 pages, ASIN: 0060638451 Buy it at Amazon.com.


ART & FILM Matthew Barney
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Matthew Barney, Nancy Spector, Neville Wakefield. Matthew Barney: Cremaster Cycles. Paperback, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, ISBN: 089207258X. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Matthew Barney: Cremaster 3 (2003) DVD. ASIN: B0000A1HPL. Buy it at Amazon.com.


PHILOSOPHY OF STILL AND MOVING IMAGES Hubertus von Amelunxen
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Vilem Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography. Ed. Amelunxen Paperback - 176 pages 0 edition (October 2000) Reaktion Books; ISBN: 1861890761. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Victor Burgin, In/Different Spaces: place and memory in visual culture, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1996. ISBN: 0520202996. Buy it at Amazon.com



Second-Year Students enrolled in summer residency: July 31 – August 22, 2005.


MEDIA, POLITICS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS Slavoj Zizek
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Slavoj Zizek: The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity MIT Press, October 2003, 190 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0262740257. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Zizek, Slavoj, Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences. Verso Books; ISBN: 0415969212; November 2003. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Zizek, Slavoj, Elizabeth Wright (Editor) and Edmond Wright (Editor). The Zizek Reader (Blackwell Readers). Blackwell Pub. February 1999, Hardcover, ISBN: 0631212000. Buy it at Amazon.com. April 1999, 392 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0631212019. Buy it at Amazon.com


PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS, ART Alain Badiou
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Badiou, Alain. Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil. Verso Books. New York, 2001, 224 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 1859842976. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.de or Amazon.co.uk. Or Paperback, ISBN: 1859844359. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Badiou, Alain, Oliver Feltham, Justin Clemens Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy. Hardcover, 208 pages, Continuum, (June 2003) ISBN: 0826467245. Buy it at Amazon.com. Or Paperback, 196 pages, Continuum, ISBN: 0826473202. Buy it at Amazon.com.


FINITUDE IN PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE AND ART Avital Ronell
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Avital Ronell, The Test Drive. Hardcover: 356 pages, University of Illinois Press (October 28, 2004), ISBN: 025202950X. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Ronell, Avital. Stupidity Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref); (December 2001), 360 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 0252026136. Buy it at Amazon.com. Or Paperback, ISBN: 0252071271. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Suggested Reading Assignments:
Ronell, Avital. Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania. Paperback: 188 pages, Univ of Nebraska Press, Reprint edition (February 1993) ISBN: 0803289448. Buy it at Amazon.com.


EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA Barbara Hammer
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Barbara Hammer DVD History Lessons (2000) ASIN: B000065U29. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Michael Renov Theorizing Documentary (Afi Film Reader). Paperback: 261 pages, Routledge (June 1, 1993), ISBN: 0415903823. Buy it at Amazon.com.


EXTERIORITY: BLANCHOT, FOUCAULT, LEVINAS Werner Hamacher
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Werner Hamacher, Peter Fenves (Translator), Premises: Essays on Philosophy and Literature from Kant to Celan. 400 pages (October 1999) Stanford University Press, ISBN: 0804736200. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Michel Foucault (Author), Maurice Blanchot (Author),Jeffrey Mehlman (Translator), Brian Massumi (Translator) Foucault / Blanchot: Maurice Blanchot: The Thought from Outside and Michel Foucault as I Imagine Him Paperback: 109 pages, Zone Books (October 19, 1989) ISBN: 0942299035. Buy it at Amazon.com.


HOMO SACER Giorgio Agamben
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Daniel Heller-Roazen (Translator). Paperback: 225 pages, Publisher: Stanford Univ Press; ISBN: 0804732183. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Agamben, Giorgio, Daniel Heller-Roazen (ed. and Translation). Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy. Stanford University Press. Stanford, 2000.
Hardcover, ISBN: 0804732779. Buy it at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
344 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0804732787. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.



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Manuel DeLanda
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Tracey Emin
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Michel Houellebecq
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Jean-Luc Nancy
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Volker Schlöndorff
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Bruce Sterling
Sandy Stone
Fred Ulfers
Gregory Ulmer
Agnès Varda
Victor Vitanza
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Lebbeus Woods
Krzysztof Zanussi
Siegfried Zielinski
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