Instructor: Svetlana Boym
Fall 2014
The seminar explores urban imagination and modernity through different art forms: literature, architecture, cinema, photography, and painting. Topics include: modernity and nostalgia, monuments and ruins, cultural archaeology and urban mapping, public and domestic spaces, memory, freedom and new technologies. Works by Baudelaire, Benjamin, Simmel, Kafka, Arendt, Nabokov, Brodsky, Pamuk, Debord. Focus for 2014: Paris, Berlin, St Petersburg, Moscow, Istanbul and Passaic, NJ.