Oct 09, 2008 10:42
things im reading this week...
- living for change: an autobiography - grace lee boggs
- spontaneous shrines and the public memorialization of death - editor jack santino
- censoring culture - edited by robert atkins and svetlana mintcheva
- roadside crosses in contemporary memorializations - holly everett
- lynching photography - dora apel / shawn michelle smith
- visual culture and the holocaust - the tattooed jew - dora apel
- impossible exchange - i think by Jean Baudrillard, the xerox handed out in class didnt include any of that useful info.
- an overabundance of articles on roadside crosses found on scholar.google.com (which is pretty amazing place)
- the life and times of the thunderbolt kid - bill bryson (coz with all this death and trauma shit, i need a fun book in the reading list)
this is pretty much my normal week, an endless list of readings and things to digest and dissect...
- in past weeks, it's included: relational asthestics, writings by and discussions of walter benjamin, writings about phenomonology, many articles on trauma (9/11, errol morris' films, mccurry's afghan girl image, oh, i cant remember them all rite now.. just relying on the stack of books in front of me rite now for the specifics of what's in the queue for this week....)
just a running list of what im reading...