Weeks 1 & 2: Rhetorics of Time; Two Paradigms

APRIL 2

Provocation/Context

Thompson, E.P. Excerpts of “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism.” In Past & Present No. 38 (Dec., 1967): read Section I (pp. 56-57), and III (pp. 63-70). (See notes in comments below.)

Theory

Peirce, Charles S. (2004) ‘What is a Sign?’ In Hoopes, J. ed., Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Deleuze, Gilles (1975). “Making Inaudible Forces Audible,” in Two Regimes of Madness: Texts and Interviews 1975-1995. Cambridge: MIT Semiotext(e), 2006. pp. 156-160. (See notes in comments below.)

APRIL 9

Provocation/Context

Whitrow, G. J. “The Significance of Time.” Chapter 8 in What is Time? New York: Oxford University, 1972.

Stahl, Roger. “A Clockwork War: Rhetorics of Time in a Time of Terror.” In Quarterly Journal of Speech Vol. 94, No. 1, February 2008, pp. 73􏰀99.

Theory

London, Justin. “Rhythm in twentieth-century theory.” In Christensen, T., ed. The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory, London/Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp 695-725.

Totaro, Donato. “Part 2: Cinema 2: The Time-Image” in Gilles Deleuze’s Bergsonian Film Project. In Off-screen Essays, http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/. (Bergson’s “Matter & Memory“—also cited below—maybe useful for reference.)

Note—references for Deleuzian film theory and Deleuze’s conception of changing historical regimes of time-perception are at the link “Film References: Gilles Deleuze” to the right. I’ll try to contextualize some of the relevant cultural theory there, and post links to film excerpts to which Totaro and Deleuze refer.

Deleuze, Gilles. “Preface to the English Language Edition” (xi-xiii), “Beyond the Movement Image” (focus on pp. 1-17 & in particular on commentary about Ozu from p. 13 onward), and “Recapitulation of Images and Signs” (pp. 25-43 — sections focused on Peircean semiotics) In Cinema 2: The Time Image. Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1989. pp 1-55.