Welcome to the space set aside for posting responses to the
weekly reading assignments and for making comments on and raising
questions related to those responses and the course readings.
For information on the course, including the schedule of readings and assignments, please go the course web site at http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/jgarret/510city/.
Each response is an approximately 500 word (about 1-2 page) response to one or more of the readings assigned for the week. You can focus on a particular text or texts, raise questions about critical methods, or even connect our reading to current news stories and controversies. Check the syllabus for details on the number of postings required.
The first response can be to the second week readings (Eliot's Silas Marner, Carlyle's "Signs of the Times," and/or the introductory chapter to Engels' The Condition of the Working Class in England. Consider focusing on what you find interesting, troubling, provocative, or just plain weird and consider your postings as part of our ongoing investigation and interrogation of the "city" as simultaneously material reality and imaginative construct. As Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson suggests, how we imagine the city produces the material reality of the city and the material reality of the city affects how it is/can be imagined.
To post on this blog you must be listed as a blog author. If you have (or are willing to create a Google account, send me the email address you use to access your Google account and I will invite you to become a blog author.
If you do not have and do not wish to have a Google account, send me an email and I will respond with a generic username/password that you can use to post responses to the blog.
For information on the course, including the schedule of readings and assignments, please go the course web site at http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/jgarret/510city/.
Each response is an approximately 500 word (about 1-2 page) response to one or more of the readings assigned for the week. You can focus on a particular text or texts, raise questions about critical methods, or even connect our reading to current news stories and controversies. Check the syllabus for details on the number of postings required.
The first response can be to the second week readings (Eliot's Silas Marner, Carlyle's "Signs of the Times," and/or the introductory chapter to Engels' The Condition of the Working Class in England. Consider focusing on what you find interesting, troubling, provocative, or just plain weird and consider your postings as part of our ongoing investigation and interrogation of the "city" as simultaneously material reality and imaginative construct. As Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson suggests, how we imagine the city produces the material reality of the city and the material reality of the city affects how it is/can be imagined.
To post on this blog you must be listed as a blog author. If you have (or are willing to create a Google account, send me the email address you use to access your Google account and I will invite you to become a blog author.
If you do not have and do not wish to have a Google account, send me an email and I will respond with a generic username/password that you can use to post responses to the blog.
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