Calibans and Tempests (HUM455)

From Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books (aka “the naked Tempest”): An earlier BBC version of the Tempest. This clip begins with the dialog between Propsero and Ariel and then leads up to the former’s exchange with Caliban. A series of trailers for films based on the Tempest. The animated Tempest. Derek Jarman’s “gay Tempest“– all 90-odd [...]

All That is Solid (HUM225)

“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance [...]

Tuesday (HUM470)

We didn’t discuss Berry’s essay much at all on Thursday, though I think that text is valuable– despite being so glib– for what it can tell us about the search for what in the old days used to be known as national character. Here’s a bit of a tangent: during the Cold War, when American [...]