Monday, March 22, 2010

Possible summer titles

I sent out an email with the following possibilities for summer reading. Additionally, suggestions from various campers are listed. In the next month we will vote on summer reading.

Bruno Latour, The Making of Law.
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/livres/MAKINGOFLAW-Foreword.pdf

Slavo Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes OR
Zizek, Violence

http://books.google.com/books?id=KBIkPV0R14sC&printsec=frontcover&dq=violence+by+zizek&source=bl&ots=6OwuiVGnv3&sig=HfvFJcuFAZ0SPl7gsAeFmCwBpKA&hl=en&ei=wj2LS6PKLoKMNqH3rfcO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=violence%20by%20zizek&f=false

Martha Nussbaum, Woman and Human Development (Capabilities theory)

http://books.google.com/books?id=9R69I--rpzUC&dq=Martha+Nussbaum+capabilites&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=cz6LS92EE5P4NduL2aUB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CB4Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
I am a partial Solnit fan, but think a walking focused book could be good. Suggestions?

Glenn Adamson, The Craft Reader

Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path

something by Walter Benjamin? (that you've not done already?)

Lewis Hyde: Trickster makes this world mischief myth and art

Nature of design
by David W. Orr
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780195173680.do

Earth in mind: on education, environment, and the human prospect
by David W. Orr
http://books.google.com/books?id=Oy9IGO5ZdaUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=david+orr&source=bl&ots=QeS5wKAO23&sig=UtgcGww-6MfqYRmxF9hlKqSKXqg&hl=en&ei=2yaVS6z_I4esNvW0ncAH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=13&ved=0CDIQ6AEwDA#v=onepage&q=&f=false

The Gift of Good Land
by Wendell Berry
http://books.google.com/books?id=rjRPPwAACAAJ&dq=the+gift+of+good+land&hl=en&ei=1iiVS53DBInKNdXj_JgN&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CDcQ6wEwAA

Kinship to Mastery: Biophilia in Human Evolution and Developments
by Stephan R. Kellert
http://books.google.com/books?id=PkufpPphlz8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=building+for+life&source=gbs_similarbooks_s&cad=1#v=onepage&q=building%20for%20life&f=false

One Straw Revolution
by Masanobu Fukoka
http://books.google.com/books?id=9dVgPwAACAAJ&dq=one+straw+revolution&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=3

Why we Garden: Cultivating a sense of place
By Jim Nollman
http://books.google.com/books?id=_VbGL69Gnj0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Why+We+Garden:+Cultivating+a+Sense+of+Place&ei=mSuVS93ELJaWNYnEtNEM&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

The Language of Landscape
By Anne Whiston Spirn
http://books.google.com/books?id=pRyh6iVkWj8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Meaning+of+Gardens&source=gbs_similarbooks_s&cad=1#v=onepage&q=The%20Meaning%20of%20Gardens&f=false

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Time to pick for summer

Dear Campers and potential Campers.

Art Theory Summer Camp is just around the corner, which means it is time to select four books. Below is an initial list, but I am seeking suggestions. This summer will follow past summers- a book a month for June, July, August and September.

Bruno Latour, The Making of Law.
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/livres/MAKINGOFLAW-Foreword.pdf

Slavo Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes OR
Zizek, Violence

http://books.google.com/books?id=KBIkPV0R14sC&printsec=frontcover&dq=violence+by+zizek&source=bl&ots=6OwuiVGnv3&sig=HfvFJcuFAZ0SPl7gsAeFmCwBpKA&hl=en&ei=wj2LS6PKLoKMNqH3rfcO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=violence%20by%20zizek&f=false

Martha Nussbaum, Woman and Human Development (Capabilities theory)

http://books.google.com/books?id=9R69I--rpzUC&dq=Martha+Nussbaum+capabilites&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=cz6LS92EE5P4NduL2aUB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CB4Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
I am a partial Solnit fan, but think a walking focused book could be good. Suggestions?

Glenn Adamson, The Craft Reader

Art Theory Summer Camp, briefly described-

When: Weekly meetings (subject to change based on the schedules of participants)
Where: On skype
What: A book a month June-September
Who: Anyone interested and perhaps a friend