Fuck meme trilogies. Design a course syllabus and reading list of 5-6 texts...

Vaporwave: Development of an Internet Culture

La condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir (Jean-François Lyotard)
Simulacres et Simulation (Jean Baudrillard)
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past (Simon Reynolds)
Cyberculture (Pierre Lévy)
Archive.org pages of Veeky Forums.org/mu/
Transcript of a yet to be scheduled interview with avant-gard artist MACINTOSH PLUS

terrible, not cohesive at all
reading list is too long
meh
>interviewing a squizo queer

Science Fiction and Societal Fears:

The War of the Worlds by Welles
We by Zamyatin
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Miller
A Scanner Darkly by Dick
True Names by Vinge
Watchmen by Moore
Submission by Houellebecq

The Italian Joyce - 300
This course will examine Joyce's Italian influences on his work and life and will include a reading of Ulysses (Ulisse) in Italian. Two essays and final exam translating portions of Finnegans Wake into Italian. Students will gain a new appreciation of Joyce


Reading List
James Joyce - Ulisse
Umberto Eco - The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas
Ezra Pound - Letters to Joyce
Dante - Selections from 'Commedia'
English-Italian Dictionary
Verdi - Complete Discography

Improved:

The Little Prince
The Stranger
In the Penal Colony
Family Happiness
Selections from Borges' Labyrinths
Lolita
As I Lay Dying

> tfw graduated but never got to take Science Fiction and Societal Fears cause it was always beyond full

would not take
would take

Cold War Literature:

Early Cold War Paranoia:
Philip K. Dick - Time out of Joint
William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
John Le Carre - The Spy who Came in from the Cold

Vietnam War:
Tim O' Brien - The Things They Carried
Stephen Wright - Meditations in Green
Michael Herr - Dispatches

Late Cold War/Post Cold War Musings:
Joan Didion - Democracy
William Gibson - Pattern Recognition

if there were room for an extra book, i would add something by pynchon

The American Cis-Gendered White Male:

The Old Man and the Sea
East of Eden
Moby Dick
Inifinte Jest