This is the first class of a new course called "Imagining Money." You can find a draft syllabus -- an aspirational one, since we'll never get through it all -- here. There are handouts for the first three days: the short passage from Beckett we discuss first, a miscellany of poems and riddles about money, and a selection of passages from Milton, Ovid, and Ambrose Bierce. The syllabus gives you the lines to read from Milton's Paradise Lost, viz. Book 1, ll. 674-751, and Book 8, ll. 1-178. And here is the Kawabata story.
18. Peeping Tom, sort of but mainly Freud on instincts, pleasure, unpleasure, and scopophilia
23. Marvell's "Upon Appleton House" (briefly) and then "The Unfortunate Lover"
18. Vertigo and Freudian repetition
22. Marvell - The Garden
21. Marvell: Damon the Mower and The Garden
16. Other worlds and other minds in Source Code and Groundhog Day
20. Last class on Herbert: The Forerunners; The Pulley
19. George Herbert: Jordan (I), The Flower, Easter Wings, etc.
15. Source Code
14. Groundhog Day
18. First class on George Herbert
13. Skepticism and Zeno's paradoxes, again
17. 17th century poetry: a class on Robert Herrick
16. 17th c poetry, mainly Jonson's Cary-Morrison Ode
12. Film and Philosophy: Akerman's La Captive
11. Film and Philosophy
15, 17th Century Poetry: Ben Jonson, mainly "The Hourglass"
14. 17th C Poetry: Ben Jonson's songs
10. Film and Philosophy: Berkeley and Beckett's
13. 17th C Poetry: Trinity and then Ben Jonson
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