Session 6th Nov

This is Robert Venturi having fun in Las Vegas. I suppose because I feel very close to the work read today, you might ask the question on your blog- 'If Paul likes this stuff on Vegas so much, what do I make of it?' 
The poem Howl is the text for this session. It is readily downloadable. I would also like students to spend a little time looking at the work of JG Ballard and William Burroughs to help us with what is potentially an unusual reading of the work of Archigram.

 

Session5

The text for our reading on 30th October is Tom Wolfe's 'Las Vegas (Too Noisy.......etc)' published in 1966. 

There is a companion text by Dave Hickey 'At Home In The Neon' published in his marvelous book 'Air Guitar' in 1997. In 'Air Guitar', Hickey obviously postulates the role of art critic as 'air guitarist', an extremely perceptive move I would say. He also begins the book with a quote you may enjoy, from Keith Richards: 

"Let me be clear about this, I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem'. 

Due to our photocopying frenzy on Friday, I hope you already have copies. If you do not, I am once more available in the office an hour either side of lunch on Monday 26th. 

Session Four 23rd Oct

The reading from Henri Lefebvre's 'The Production of Space' pages 68-85 is miraculously available as a photocopy from my office before or after lunch on Monday 19th. The only downside is half of it is printed upside down. 

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Session Three

The first chapter, 'The Politics of Amnesia'. You can view the first six pages on preview via Amazon.co.uk.

Session Two 9th Oct

The issues we discussed today in relation to Dubai were:

1 Hallucination/Phantasmagoria

2 Giganticism: The Edifice Complex

3 Global marketing, the contemporary nomad and the difficulty in appending sophistication instead of understanding historical process (Trotsky)

4 Global Finance: Oil and War

5 Feudalism

6 Terrorism: Fear as a gift to oil producers

7 Flipping for profit- but what about the flop?

8 Women

9 Slavery

10 Comparisons to Germania (Albert Speer)

Session Two

This is the reading for Session Two Friday 9th October:

Mike Davis on (Sand) Fear and Money in Dubai

Session 2nd Oct

When we were looking at Jonathan Meades on Zaha today, the ten points were:

1. The structure of working practice

2. The use of the computer beyond being a tool

3. The importance or not of physical context

4. Historicism vs ambition

5. Gender

6. Jargon as language

7.    Time; the dispensable and the eternal

8.    Britain

9.    The refusal of simile

10. Mortality

I hope you will set up your blog and for next weeks session have something to say on it about what you have learnt from today. I want you to do this each week as part of your assessment for this module. I'm suggesting you write blog sized and blog style comfortable pieces, below 200 words each time. I am hoping you will enjoy it also.