INFO for Next Week

First, thank you again for great attendance, please keep it up.

Last night was perhaps too crammed to be a properly productive seminar session, and felt like a good example of the way that the large numbers in the seminar can make it difficult to maintain a seminar format and atmosphere. Nevertheless it was good to spend some time with artists and images, as well as philosophy and ethnography.

But next week I think it is important to start with YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU & YOU. i.e. we will start by hearing a little more about you and your practice, and in what way you feel the 'Subject' might play a part in your own practice.

Plus, if you spend half and hour or an hour with this Blog posts below you should be able to come with a little more information about what is working for you in the seminar (including any problems you are having), and more about what essay questions, quotes, ideas, bibliography have caught your attention.

Next week we will maintain a more leisurely pace and once we have heard from you we will just concentrate on the Kaja Silverman essay and se the relevamt clips form Hitchcock's 'Psycho'. If we are still running one week behind we will just have to catch up without cramming the session as I did last night.

If you have copies of the Kaja Silverman essay of course read it, make notes and highlights on it (mark what catches your eye, don't worry if you don't understand it all at firtst reading) and please watch Psycho too. If anyone has a copy of 'Psycho' as DVD or VHS, or if you have a good You Tube or download link for 'Psycho' that might be useful please bring them all along.

If you picked up the Mauss essay and the little biography of Mauss's life and work you should find it rewarding to read through after we made some tracks into it last night.

If the Deleuze essay still confuses you please read through mnyy gloss below. and finally, if anyone knows or is reading or would like to find out a littl about Kashuo Iriguro's novel 'Never Let Me go' please bring that information knowledge with you too.

best wishes and see you soon,
Paul O'Kane