Honors 101: Identity in the age of Self-Indulgence: the Self and Society
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TEXTs
Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. Signet, 1998. [Amazon | Kindle | iBooks | Web]
Smith, Zadie. Intimations. Penguin, 2020. [Amazon | Kindle | iBooks]
Loriga, Ray. My Brother’s Gun. St. Martin’s, 1997. [Amazon | AbeBooks]
Ma, Ling. Severance. Picador, 2018. [Amazon | Kindle | iBooks]
Thesis Writing
Dr. Klodt’s Video: Developing A Thesis Statement
Dr. Klodt's Slidedeck: Example Thesis
UWisconsin: Developing A Thesis Statement
Logical Fallacies + Cognitive Biases + Cognitive Bias Codex
Joseph Pattison "How to Write an F Paper" (1982)
Alice Yang “Making the Transition from High School to College Essay Writing” (2018)
MLA Formatting
Dr. Klodt's Video: Introduction to MLA Formatting | Dr. Klodt's Slidedeck: Intro to MLA Formatting
Dr. Klodt’s Video: Common Errors in MLA Formatting
MLA Handbook 9th Edition | MLA Style Center | MLA Works Cited Quick Guide
UPurdue: Guide to MLA Formatting
MLA Digital Interactive Template | Blank Template | Dr. Klodt's Annotated Template
AUTHORS, artists & WORKs
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN COMMUNITY: SEEKING SAFETY IN AN INSECURE WORLD (2001)
Poznań, Poland 1925 - Leeds, England 2017
"An Overture, or Welcome to Elusive Community" + "The Agony of Tantalus" (2001)
Ricardo de Querol “Interview Zygmunt Bauman: ‘Social Media Are a Trap’” El País 25 January 2016
KARL MARX & Friedrich Engels THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO (1848)
Karl Marx: Trier, Prussia 1818 - London, England 1883
Friedrich Engels: Barmen, Prussia 1820 - London, England 1895
"Pyramid of the Capitalist System" (1911)
Video: The Odessa Steps Sequence from Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein 1925)
Banksy: Graffiti Artist, Film Director, Activist: Dismaland (2015)
Smithsonian.com “The Story Behind Banksy” (2013)
"Revealed: Banksy's Method for ‘Shop 'Til You Drop'" (2011)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) + Movie Poster 1 + Movie Poster 2
"Banksy's Real Name" (2011)
Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans (2008) + Sydney, Australia (2007) + Bethlehem (2007)
"Napalm" (2004) + Nick Ut "The Terror of War (Napalm Girl)" (1972)
"Slave Labour" (2012) + "Mobile Lovers" (2014)
Images Studied in Class: Dismaland (Weston-super-Mare, UK 2015)
Paco Poment "Internacional" (2008)
Café para llevar (Patricia Font 2014)
Born Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain 1978
Data Sheet: Café para llevar (2014)
Video: Café para llevar (2014)
Movie Poster: Café para llevar (2014)
Trailer: Café para llevar (2014)
Julio Cortázar “The Night Face Up” (1955)
Brussels, Belgium 1914 - Paris, France 1984
Biography | Bibliography | Facebook Fan Page | Interview
“The Night Face Up” (1955)
“Axolotl” (1956)
Jason Weiss “Julio Cortázar, The Art of Fiction No. 83” The Paris Review Fall 1984
Chris Power “A Brief Survey of the Short Story Part 22: Julio Cortázar” The Guardian 20 October 2009
Ilan Stavans “El Boom and Its Aftershocks in the Global Marketplace” (2016)
Never Happened (Mark Slutsky 2016)
Born Montreal, Québec, Canada 1979
MarkSlutsky.com | Twitter | Tumblr | Vimeo
“Something Good”: MS’s Weekly Wednesday Newsletter
Data Sheet: Never Happened (2016)
Video: Never Happened (2016) | Movie Poster | Trailer
Video: Final Offer (2018)
Video: The Decelerators (2012)
Video: Sorry, Rabbi (2011)
You Can Live Forever (2022) | Movie Poster | Trailer | “You Can Live Forever Film Review: Queer Love Blooms Amid Religious Repression” (11 June 2022)
LOS GRITONES (Roberto Pérez Toledo 2010)
Lanzarote, Las Palmas 1978 - Madrid, Spain 2022
RobertoPérezToledo.com | Video Biography of RPT
Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Vimeo
Data Sheet: Los gritones (2010)
Video: Los gritones (2010)
Movie Poster: Los gritones (2010)
TABOULÉ (Richard García Vázquez 2011)
Born Bordeaux, France 1977
Data Sheet: Taboulé (2011)
Video: Taboulé (2011)
Trailer: Taboulé (2011)
Movie Poster: Taboulé (2011)
TREINTA (Juanmi DÍez 2016)
Born Castellón, València, Spain 1989
Twitter | Facebook | YouTube | Vimeo
Data Sheet: Treinta (2016)
Video: Treinta (2016)
Trailer: Treinta (2016)
Movie Poster: Treinta (2016)
Zadie Smith Intimations (2020)
Born Wilesden, London 1975
Website | Facebook | ZS on Penguin Random House
Marcus Aurelius Meditations (167 CE)
Jefferson Market Garden, New York
John Berger Ways of Seeing (1972)
Video ZS Interview: Such Painful Knowledge (2017)
RAY LORIGA MY BROTHER'S GUN (1995)
Born Madrid, Spain 1967
Biography | Bibliography | Journalism
Freedom & Memory: The Ray Loriga Interview (2004)
Movie Poster La pistola de mi hermano | Trailer La pistola de mi hermano (1997)
Manuel Velasco "Retrato" (2000)
Matías Sánchez "La parodia" (2000) + "Desesperación" (2001) + "Ensimismados" (2001) + "El mundo lleno" (2002) + "¿Dios?" (2002) + "Un poco quemao" (2001)
WRIGHT THOMPSON “GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI” (2010)
Born Clarksdale, Mississippi 1976
"Ghosts of Mississippi" (2010)
ESPN Films Ghosts of Ole Miss (2012) [ESPN | Amazon | YouTube]
The Southern Documentary Project Rebels: James Meredith & the Integration of Ole Miss (2014)
Audio: Phone Call Between President Kennedy and Governor Barnett on Desegregation (29 September 1962)
Audio: President Kennedy Mobilizes the National Guard to Integrate the University of Mississippi (30 September 1962)
Newsreel: Desegregation Riots at Ole Miss (1962) + Video: Deadly Riots at Ole Miss (1962)
Bob Dylan "Oxford Town" (1962) [Stream on iTunes + Spotify] + Lyrics
Phil Ochs "Ballad of Oxford, Mississippi" (1962) + Lyrics
Robert Kennedy: Speech at the University of Mississippi (18 March 1966)
April Grayson “Unearthing and Confronting Oxford’s Lynching History with Reverend E.W. Higginbottom, Sr.” (19 May 2020)
William Browning “Artists and Writers Who Fought Racism with Satire in Jim Crow Mississippi” (29 May 2019)
Ernie Barnes: Painter
Durham, North Carolina 1938 - Los Angeles 2009
Biography | erniebarnes.com | Facebook Fan Page
"Sugar Shack" (1976) + Marvin Gaye "I Want You" (1976) + "Donald Byrd and 125 Street, NYC" (1979) + "Sidewalk Scene with Graduate" (1974)
"My Miss America" (1970) + "The Storyteller" (1972) + “Daddy” (1973)
"The Dream Unfolds" (1996) + El Greco "El Entierro del Conde Orgaz" (1586-1588) + Barnes/El Greco Comparison
"Destination Unknown" (1979)
"Harlem Pool Room" (c. 1970) + “Late Night DJ” (1980)
CNN Video: The Art of Ernie Barnes (2010) + Video: Ernie Barnes: This Is My Art (2011)
Kiese Laymon “The Allure of Ole Miss Football” (2015)
Born Jackson, Mississippi 1974
"The Allure of Ole Miss Football" (2015) [PDF Version]
“Hey Mama” (2014)
ARCHIBALD MOTELY: HARLEM RENAISSANCE PAINTER
New Orleans 1891 - Chicago 1981
Biography | Art Works | Exhibition at Whitney Museum
"Blues" (1929) + "Jazz Singers" (1934) + "Hot Rhythm" (1961)
"Cocktails" (1926) + "Black Belt" (1934) + "Street Scene Chicago" (1936) + "The Picnic" (1936) + "The Liar" (1936) + "Nightlife" (1943)
"Barbeque" (1934) + "Barbeque" (1960)
"The First One Hundred Years" (1963-1972)
"Tongues (Holy Rollers)" (1929) + "Gettin' Religion" (1948)
"Portrait of My Grandmother" (1922) + "Brown Girl After Bath" (1931) + "Self Portrait: Myself at Work" (1933)
Dr. Lisa Whittington: Artist + Educator
Born Harlem, New York 1965
LW’s TED Talk “What Does Art Want with You?” (2017)
“Ode to Picasso” (2017) + Pablo Picasso “El viejo guitarrista ciego” (1903)
“How She Sent Him and How She Got Him Back” (2012)
“Emmett Till Compass Rose” (2017)
Jerry Mitchell “Ole Miss Students Face Possible Civil Rights Investigation After Posing with Guns in Front of Emmett Till Memorial” (25 July 2019)
The DM Editorial: Are Students the Only Adults in the Room? (26 August 2019)
Parker Yesko “Acquitting Emmett Till’s Killers” (5 June 2018)
Ling Ma Severance (2018)
Born Sanming, Fujian, China 1983
“Author Ling Ma Answers Your Questions About Severance” PBS News Hour 30 December 2020
Jiayang Fan “Ling Ma’s Severance Captures the Bleak, Fatalistic Mood of 2018” The New Yorker 10 December 2018
Hillary Kelly “Review: Severance Author Ling Ma Doubles Down on Surreal Premises in Bliss Montage” LA Times 9 September 2022
“Severance” Vice 2018
“Fuzhou Nighttime Feeling” Texas Observer October 2014
“Los Angeles” Granta 2015
PArasite (Bong joon-ho 2019)
Born Daegu, South Korea 1969
Parasite: Data Sheet | Movie Poster | Trailer
Video: Bong Joon Ho Oscar Acceptance Speech for Best Director (9 February 2020)
Inkoo Kang “Parasite: Notes from the Underground” (The Criterion Collection 30 October 2020)
Will Bedingfield “How Parasite Uses Architecture to Hammer Home its Brutal Message” (Wired 2 July 2020)
Mark Kermode “Parasite Review—A Gasp-Inducing Masterpiece” (The Guardian 10 February 2020)
Richard Brody “How Parasite Falls Short of Greatness” (The New Yorker 14 October 2019)
EL ORDEN DE LAS COSAS (Esteban Alenda Brothers 2010)
Barbara Kruger: Visual artist + Photographer
Born Newark, New Jersey 1945
Biography | Interview | Twitter
"Untitled (I Shop Therefore I Am)" (1987)
"For Sale" Op-Art New York Times 24 November 2012
"You Are Not Yourself" (1984)
"Untitled (We Don't Need Another Hero)" (1985)
Cindy Sherman: Photographer
Born Glen Ridge, New Jersey 1954
"Untitled Film Still #3" + UFS #4 + UFS #5 + UFS #62 (1977)
"Untitled Film Still #10" (1978) + "Untitled Film Still #84" (1980)
"Untitled Film Still #27" + UFS #30 + UFS #35 + UFS #48 (1979)
"Untitled Film Still #56" + UFS #58 + UFS #76 + UFS #81 (1980)
"Untitled Film Still #86" + UFS #89 + UFS #90 + UFS #92 + UFS #96 (1980)
"Untitled Film Still #304" (1994) + UFS #335 (2000)
SIRO (Jorge Brizuela + Borja Echeverría 2019)
Data Sheet: Siro (2019)
Video: Siro (2019)
Movie Poster: Siro (2019)
Kim Goodwin “Mansplaining, Explained in One Simple Chart” (29 July 2018)
CURVAS (david galÁn Galindo 2012)
Born Ávila, Castilla y León, Spain 1982
Twitter | Facebook | YouTube | Vimeo
Data Sheet: Curvas (2012)
Video: Curvas (2012)
Historias de lo cotidiano (Fernando González Gómez 2016)
Born Madrid, Spain 1984
Data Sheet: Historias de lo cotidiano (2016)