A4587 The question of public space
History/Theory SeminarRosalyn Deutsche
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Introduction to the issues of the seminar
2. The Production of Space
Rosalyn Deutsche, Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City, in Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics
3. The Production of Space, contd. R. D. Mackenzie, The Ecological Approach to the Study of the Human Community, in The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment David Harvey, Revolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary Theory in Geography, in Social Justice and the City Manuel Castells, The Urban Ideology and The Myth of Urban Culture, in The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach
4. The Right to the City Michel de Certeau, General Introduction and Making Do : Uses and Tactics, in The Practice of Everyday Life Henri Lefebvre, Space: Social Product and Use Value, in Critical Sociology: European Perspectives, ed. J. W. Freiberg
5. The Right to the City contd. David V. Lurie and Krzysztof Wodiczko, Homeless Vehicle Project Michael Warner, Zones of Privacy
6. You, sir, are a space, too : Representation and subjectivity in discourses about public space
7. Theories of postmodernism based on critical spatial theory Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, in Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
8. Feminist interventions in the production of space Rosalyn Deutsche, Men in Space, in Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics Mark Wigley, Lost and Found, in You Are Here: Architecture and Information Flows, eds. Laura Kurgan and Xavier Costa
9. The public sphere: lost or phantom ? Jurgen Habermas, The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article, in New German Critique, Fall 1974 Thomas Crow, These Collectors, They Talk about Baudrillard Now and Discussion: The Birth and Death of the Viewer, in Hal Foster, ed., Discussions in Contemporary Culture Michael Sorkin, introduction to Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space Bruce Robbins, Intellectuals in Decline? Social Text 25/26, 1990
10. The public sphere, contd. Bruce Robbins, Introduction: The Public as Phantom, in The Phantom Public Sphere Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge, selections from The Public Sphere a nd Experience Nancy Fraser, Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy, in The Phantom Public Sphere
11. Public Space and Democracy Douglas Crimp, Serra's Public Sculpture: Re-defining Site Specificity, in Richard Serra/Sculpture Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question, Part I, in Early Writings
12. The Democratic Invention: Public Space and The Image of an Empty Place Claude Lefort, The Question of Democracy, in Democracy and Political Theory Chantal Mouffe, Democracy, Power, and the Political, in Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political
13. The Democratic Invention, contd. Thomas Keenan, Windows: of vulnerability, in The Phantom Public Sphere, ed. Bruce Robbins