Calendar

 

Ses # Themes Key Dates
1 Introduction  
2

Haunting

Exterior vs. Interior (Outside vs. Inside)

Escape vs. Entrance

 
3

The Flaneur

Close Reading, Slow Reading

 
4

Man of the Crowd / Man of the World

The Presence of the Past / Palimpsests

 
5

Panopticism

Metonymy

Asyndeton

 
6 Literary Snow and Rain Days  
7

Saturday and Mrs. Dalloway: A Tale of Two Openings

 
8

Post 9/11 and Trauma Ethics

Failures, Triumphs, and Limits of the Imagination

 
9

Security and Invasion

Psychological and Architextural Interiority

 
10 Brain/Mind/City: Networks and Systems  
11 Re-Reading Day Re-Reading Assignment #1 Due
12 Geography and Representation  
13 Haunting and Estrangement Paper #1 Due
14

Defamiliarization

Intersectionality: Race, Class, and Gender

 
15

Vantage Points

Race and Space

Race and Representation

The Uses of Genre

MIT Senseable City Lab Class Visit
16

Love Stories and Romance Plots

Home, Homeland, and Homecoming

 
17

Windows

Stereoscopic

 
18 Frames, Windows, and Cosmopolitanism  
19 Inclusion and Exclusion Paper #2 Due
20

Glitches, Cuts, Tears, and Splices

A World Re-Arranged

Back to the Future

Benjamin's Aura

Beyond Symbolism: Circulating Objects, Found Objects

 
21

Uncanny

The Sublime

Collage

Irony

 
22

From Irony to Sincerity?: Structure and Trajectory

Storms, Circulating Systems, and Flickering Lights

 
23 Nature in the City  
24 Re-Reading Day Re-Reading Assignment #2 Due
25 Presentation of Final Creative Projects Creative Street Haunting Assignment Due