Media and Public Sphere
Media and Public Sphere, my suggestion of books for reference is as follow:
1 Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere2 Henri, Lefebvre, The Production of Space3 Margot Lovejoy, Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media. – I have read a few chapters of this book years ago. It’s an old book (~1996), about electronic art, video art and installation. For a recent book by the same author, you can refer to: Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age (but I haven’t read it ).
4 A short section (and reference therein ) titled ‘Post Cinema – Digital Theory and the New Media’ in a book called Film Theory: An Introduction by Robert Stam, pp.314-327.
5 Andreas Huyssen, ‘The Hidden Dialectic: Avantgarde - Mass Culture - Modernism’ in After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism, pp.3-15.
6 Books for Leo Au-fan’s course with a title(?) ‘Media and Public Criticsm’ in HKU Dept of Journalism and Media in 2003: Pierre Bourdieu, On Television; Edward Said, Representation of the Intellectual; Terry Eagleton, The Function of Criticism.
7 Samuel Weber, Mass Mediauras: Forms, Technics, Media
8 A chapter ‘Establishing a Signification for Social Space: Demonstration, Cortege, Parade, Procession’ in Louis Martin, On Representation.
9 Avita Ronell, Finitude’s Score: Essays for the End of the Millenium. (a few chapters about street-talk, Trauma and TV).
10 Friedrich A. Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
11 Marshall McLuhan’s books.
12 Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation ; The Gulf War Did Not Take Place ; Selected Writings.
13 Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
14 Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle
15 Foucault’s various theories in Discipline, Sexuality, Clinic.
16 Kafka, Castle (I am thinking about the ideology, the haunting and unknown nature of the Castle which makes people of the village around the castle (e.g govt) to talk about (the nothingness) the castle.
17 ‘University Without Condition’ in Without Alibi : about Derrida’s thinking of what university and humanities are. (I am thinking about university as a place of (intellectuals and students’) pubic space. I welcome students’ rethinking about what university and humanities. As a comparison, one can compare it with Lyotard’s Postmodern Condition- a Report on Knowledge which the author talks about science, knowledge, ‘narrative as the legitimation of knowledge’.
18 Derrida, Echographies of Television; Essays in Paper Machine : interviews with newspaper and magazine discussing paper, wordprocessor, intellectuals
19 Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire. (You can read Flaneurs, Arcade, World Exhibition in this book. But Benjamin’s language and text are difficult to read, at least for me. The students can think about these topics with the social/pubic space of HK, like (arcade-like) shopping centres in HK, non-arcade type Mongkok, private and public space in Time Square in Causeway Bay, Shanghai World Panorama in 2010. )
20 Professor has quite often mentioned the film Olympia (1938) by the female director Leni Riefenstahl . The film is a documentary (propaganda?!) film of the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936 to serve Nazism and the superiority of the Germanic race. However, the film’s aesthetics (as documentary) is highly valuated by many film critics. She also made a propaganda film Triumph of the Will (1934) for the Nuremberg Congress of the Nazi Party. I haven’t seen these films or read any literature about them. From this background, I am thinking about the conflict of aesthetics against propaganda, the propaganda problem of commitment, the problem of Nazi and the Holocaust, advance of technology in 1936 for making the documentary (i.e. the New Media and Public Space (of Germany) at that time (Note: this Olympic Game was boycotted by many countries including USA and UK) ), or how to make a comparison between the making of the other Olympic Games promotion and architecture with Olympia. To get some knowledge about the film, maybe you can refer to the essay "Fascinating Fascism", a critical 1975 essay by Susan Sontag (out of Under the Sign of Saturn); David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: an Introduction, 5th ed. (1997), pp. 134-8, 368-370.
1 Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere2 Henri, Lefebvre, The Production of Space3 Margot Lovejoy, Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media. – I have read a few chapters of this book years ago. It’s an old book (~1996), about electronic art, video art and installation. For a recent book by the same author, you can refer to: Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age (but I haven’t read it ).
4 A short section (and reference therein ) titled ‘Post Cinema – Digital Theory and the New Media’ in a book called Film Theory: An Introduction by Robert Stam, pp.314-327.
5 Andreas Huyssen, ‘The Hidden Dialectic: Avantgarde - Mass Culture - Modernism’ in After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism, pp.3-15.
6 Books for Leo Au-fan’s course with a title(?) ‘Media and Public Criticsm’ in HKU Dept of Journalism and Media in 2003: Pierre Bourdieu, On Television; Edward Said, Representation of the Intellectual; Terry Eagleton, The Function of Criticism.
7 Samuel Weber, Mass Mediauras: Forms, Technics, Media
8 A chapter ‘Establishing a Signification for Social Space: Demonstration, Cortege, Parade, Procession’ in Louis Martin, On Representation.
9 Avita Ronell, Finitude’s Score: Essays for the End of the Millenium. (a few chapters about street-talk, Trauma and TV).
10 Friedrich A. Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
11 Marshall McLuhan’s books.
12 Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation ; The Gulf War Did Not Take Place ; Selected Writings.
13 Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
14 Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle
15 Foucault’s various theories in Discipline, Sexuality, Clinic.
16 Kafka, Castle (I am thinking about the ideology, the haunting and unknown nature of the Castle which makes people of the village around the castle (e.g govt) to talk about (the nothingness) the castle.
17 ‘University Without Condition’ in Without Alibi : about Derrida’s thinking of what university and humanities are. (I am thinking about university as a place of (intellectuals and students’) pubic space. I welcome students’ rethinking about what university and humanities. As a comparison, one can compare it with Lyotard’s Postmodern Condition- a Report on Knowledge which the author talks about science, knowledge, ‘narrative as the legitimation of knowledge’.
18 Derrida, Echographies of Television; Essays in Paper Machine : interviews with newspaper and magazine discussing paper, wordprocessor, intellectuals
19 Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire. (You can read Flaneurs, Arcade, World Exhibition in this book. But Benjamin’s language and text are difficult to read, at least for me. The students can think about these topics with the social/pubic space of HK, like (arcade-like) shopping centres in HK, non-arcade type Mongkok, private and public space in Time Square in Causeway Bay, Shanghai World Panorama in 2010. )
20 Professor has quite often mentioned the film Olympia (1938) by the female director Leni Riefenstahl . The film is a documentary (propaganda?!) film of the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936 to serve Nazism and the superiority of the Germanic race. However, the film’s aesthetics (as documentary) is highly valuated by many film critics. She also made a propaganda film Triumph of the Will (1934) for the Nuremberg Congress of the Nazi Party. I haven’t seen these films or read any literature about them. From this background, I am thinking about the conflict of aesthetics against propaganda, the propaganda problem of commitment, the problem of Nazi and the Holocaust, advance of technology in 1936 for making the documentary (i.e. the New Media and Public Space (of Germany) at that time (Note: this Olympic Game was boycotted by many countries including USA and UK) ), or how to make a comparison between the making of the other Olympic Games promotion and architecture with Olympia. To get some knowledge about the film, maybe you can refer to the essay "Fascinating Fascism", a critical 1975 essay by Susan Sontag (out of Under the Sign of Saturn); David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: an Introduction, 5th ed. (1997), pp. 134-8, 368-370.
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