Prep

• Walter Benjamin, ‘Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit’ (1936). First published in French as ‘L‘oeuvre d’art à l’époque de sa reproduction mécanisée’, in Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung V (1936). Published in English here as ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: Second Version’. A classic work on art and politics; Petrusich’s anticapitalist critique of ‘chill beats’ as a soundtrack to modern work is very much in this tradition.

In Class

1. Attendance
2. Q&A: Keywords
3. Story Maps Workshop
4. Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Tricia Rose, ‘Never Trust a Big Butt and a Smile’, in Forman and Neal (2004). keywords: dialogic criticism; feminism; heteronormativity; intersectionality (pp. 303-304); signifying.
• Audio: ‘Saweetie, City Girls, and the Female Rapper Renaissance’, Popcast (29 November 2020)