September 4th:

• THEODOR ADORNO AND MAX HORKHEIMER,
      "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" (1944)

• ARTHUR DANTO
      Introduction from After the End of Art (1996)

• ROBERT STORR (SUGGESTED reading),
      "No Joy in Mudville: Greenberg's Modernism Then and Now" (1990)

September 25th:

• ROLAND BARTHES
     "The Death of the Author" (1968)

• JACQUES DERRIDA,
      "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences (1970)  

October 16th:

• LINDA NOCHLIN,
      " Why have there been no great women artists?" (1971)

October 23rd:

• LESTER BANGS,
      "The White Noise Supremacists" (1979)

• DAN GRAHAM,
      "New Wave Rock and the Feminine" (1980-4)

• GREIL MARCUS,
      Preface to Lipstick Traces (1989)

October 30th:

• IHAB HASSAN,
      "Toward a Concept of Postmodernism" (1987)

• GILLES DELEUZE AND FELIX GUATTARI
      Excerpt from A Thousand Plateaus (1987)

November 6th:

• CRAIG OWENS,
      "The Discourse of Others: Feminism and Postmodernism" (1983)

• ROSALIND KRAUSS,
      Excerpts from Cindy Sherman: Untitled (1993)

November 13th:

• JULIA KRISTEVA,
      Excerpts from "Approaching Abjection" (1982)

• CORNEL WEST,
      "The New Politics of Cultural Difference" (1990)

• BELL HOOKS,
      "Postmodern Blackness" (1990)

November 20th:

• JUDITH BUTLER,
      "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution" (1988)

• LIZ KOTZ/JUDITH BUTLER (suggested reading)
      "The Body You Want: Liz Kotz interviews Judith Butler" (1992)

November 27th:

• FREDRIC JAMESON,
      Excerpts from Postmodernism, Or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)

• PATRICIA BICKERS
      “’Oh, Politics Schmolitics!’ Art in the Postmodern Age” (2002)

• CATHY BYRD
      "Is there a 'post-black' art?" (2002)

• FEMINISM AND ART: NINE VIEWS (2003)

December 4:

• NICOLAS BOURRIAUD
      Excerpts from Relational Aesthetics (1998)

• DONALD KUSPIT
      "The Semiotic Anti-Subject" (2000)

• DJ SPOOKY
      "An Interview with That Subliminal Kid" (2002)

• KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH
      "The Case for Contamination" (2006)

• PETER PLAGENS
      “At a Crossroads"(2005)