| Description |
How do we create our artworks, and how do we create ourselves, in the contemporary world? What can each process tell us about the other? How do changing notions of subjectivity and subjecthood interact with our archive of literary and cinematic forms? In this course we'll explore the technological, geopolitical, and cultural developments of the last quarter-century through the lenses provided by novels and films produced in this period. These texts will range from relatively mainstream to quite experimental; our task, in all cases, will be to embrace their challenges as well as their pleasures--and, again, to ask how these inform one another. |