Fall, 2025 course syllabus


How to Die in the Canon Without Really Trying


Tuesday 6:66pm

Prerequisites: C+ or higher in ART420-90210 Advanced Meme-Theory

Grading: None

Attendance: Doesn't Matter


Unit 1: The Beautiful Corpse

Georges Bataille – The Cruel Practice of Art

Rosalind Krauss – “The Originality of the Avant-Garde”


Viewing

Peter Greenaway – The Draughtsman’s Contract

Derek Jarman – Blue


Unit 2: The Failed Prophet

Antonin Artaud – Heliogabalus; or, The Crowned Anarchist

Julia Kristeva – Powers of Horror (Intro + “The Abjection of Self”)

Clarice Lispector – Água Viva

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha – Dictee