“The Shock of the Anthropocene” – Journals
I expect a minimum of 250 words for any given NUMBER. As always, quality is more important than quantity. You are welcome to be informal in your journals, just be sure to relate your thoughts back to course material. Engagement with course material is paramount. Show me how the material has provoked you in some way. I will evaluate your journals on the following:
2. Clarity. While I’m not so concerned about formal style, please be sure I can follow your train of thought. Try to write full prose sentences that summarize your journey with these texts, films and ideas.
3. Productive insights or questions. I’m looking especially for substance. If you understood the text, the entry should have some productive insights as to what the text is all about. Don’t fret if you did not quite understand the text, instead use this as an opportunity to explore productive questions. Start with something, anything that made sense to you and then see if you can formulate a provocative question. Try to weigh in on the questions you raise, speculate about the major implications of the text in question. I encourage you to draw references to your daily life and/or our current socio-political situation, but if I can’t make sense of your writing, or I can’t trace your thought back to actual ideas from our texts, then I’m afraid I can only assume you missed the main point. I’m looking for substantive content. Where possible I will give you the benefit of the doubt, but you need to show that you are working through the ideas we’ve been covering in class.
4. Proximity to the materials in question. The closer the better.
PLEASE READ MY INSTRUCTIONS ABOVE. I WILL ATTACH ALL THE FILES. NO PLAGERISM. PLEASE BE ON TIME.
IT IS NOT JUST A SUMMARY. Read Instructions.
Each number there are two readings. READ and write 250 words.
1. 1) James Baldwin “A Letter to My Nephew” 2) James Baldwin “Many Thousands Gone”
2. 1) Bill Nichols, Ch. 7 2) “On Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man Documentary: Psychoanalysis, Nature and Meaning
3. 1) Naomi Klein This Changes Everything – Introduction 2) Naomi Klein This Changes Everything – Chapter 1
4. 1) “The Shock of the Anthropocene” 2) “The Capitalocene, or, Geoengineering Against Capitalism’s Planetary Boundaries”
5. 1) Four Futures: Life After Capitalism Introduction and Chapter 1 2) Four Futures: Life After Capitalism Chapter 2
6. 1) Reading Realness: Wilderness and Queer and Transgender Documentary Practice 2) Is Paris Burning?
7. 1) The Camera as a Container 2) Foucault, Feminism and Critical Autobiographical Documentary
