The second unit will further investigate the “text” of the flesh. By looking at tattoos, scarification, and even plastic surgery, we will consider how identity can be “written” on the body, and even the possibilities for the individual to “revise” that text.
Schedule outline
Monday, February 11
Class
Introduction to Unit Two. Writing on/about the body: Changing definitions
Homework
Reading: In the Flesh 119-149
Wednesday, February 13
Class
Modern Primitivism: Revisiting the Other Body
Homework
Reading:In the Flesh 49-86; article distributed in class
Writing:Ethnography 1
Monday, February 18
Class
ETHNOGRAPHY 1 DUE!
Gender and Body Modification; Rhetoric of documentary film
Homework
Reading:In the Flesh 87-118
Wednesday, February 20
Class
Media Project: Principles of Video Production
Homework
Reading:In the Flesh 87-118
Writing:Ethnography 2
Monday, February 25
Class
Sexuality and Body Modification
Wednesday, February 27
Class
Media Project: iMovie and video editing
Homework
Writing:Ethnography 3; Finish 1.2
Monday, March 3
Class
Body Modification in Popular Culture
Wednesday, March 5
Class
Media Projects workshop
DUE: 1.2; Ethnography 3
Homework
Reading: In the Flesh 151-197
Neuromancer 3-39
Writing: Finish media project reflection paper
Monday, March 10 and Wednesday, March 12
NO CLASS - SPRING BREAK
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