My favorite readings of this quarter have been:
• Mizoeff’s “Teletubbies: Infant Cyborg Desire and the Fear of Global Visual Culture”
• Sterne’s “Sounds Like the Mall of America”
• Anderson’s Imagined Communities
• Warner’s “Publics and Counterpublics”
• Adorno and Horkeimer’s “The Culture Industry”
• Appadurai’s “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy”
Mizoeff’s “Teletubies,” essay, by far, takes the prize for the best essay of the syllabus, or, at least, the most fascinating and engaging in its approach, subject matter and tone.
As for my least favorites, I don’t really have any particular articles that I feel so strongly about to label as such. I did feel, however, that the enthnography-focused articles that came primarily towards the end of the quarter could be a little longwinded and tiresome at times. So, I would advocate trimming those from the syllabus, perhaps just one or two essays for each section instead of the standard three.
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