Session Friday 3rd December

The chapters on Faust are what I want you to read from this book this week. This is a standard text for a wide variety of post-graduate students and so I recommend you buy it. I'm not saying the information you glean from it will make life easy, but I was at dinner last night with a very bright fellow who began talking about a chapter in there that I had not even read! It's that kind of book. Old New York Marxists, you gotta lov'em.

Session Friday 26th

The novel you should read for this week's session is the sardonic appreciation of modernism via Evelyn Waugh. It's a good read and should be easily available from almost any library. It's obviously not the most obvious of theoretical texts, but you need to get inside the mind of Le Corbusier somehow. Thats what the session will be about.

Session 6th Nov

The reading this week is from Henri Lefebvre's volume 'The Production of Space' the chapter being 'Social Space'. This piece usually causes some brains to wrack but this is a useful process.

Getting hold of the book maybe problematic for you but I shall be making copies on Monday and suggest you stop by my office K316 to pick up a copy.

Session 5

This is your reading for next week's session, easily available via the internet. However I would also like you to have a working knowledge of William S Burroughs 'The Job' and another writer I may well refer to is JG Ballard, whose novel 'High Rise' is significant.

Dave Hickey

I'm aware there's been limited pick up on the Hickey piece, please swoop by the office tomorrow and pick up a copy from the door, and check out my blog posted today on pauldaviesarchtecture.blogspot.com for a little background on my point of view which I hope is worth thinking about.

Criticism by enjoying writing will be the theme of the next two sessions.

Please equip yourselves with a copy of WS Burrough's 'The Job' for next week.

Books

I thought it would be a good idea to let you know in advance some of the books we will be studying as we move forward (backwards).

Some others will be covered by photocopies, but these it would be advisable for you to get hold of:

WS Burroughs The Job

Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall

Marshall Berman All That's Solid Melts in to Air

Dos Passos USA