WEEK 2*APRIL 19TH LECTURE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY

Required Readings:

Berman, M. (1982). ‘Introduction: Modernity-Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’. All That is Solid Melts in the Air: The Experience of Modernity. New York; London: Penguin Books. pp.15-36

NOTE: for all

ADDED, sorry

Benjamin, Walter.  'Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century', in The Arcades Project. Ed. Rolf Tiedemann. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1999. Print.pp.3-26

Note: if possible, I hope you could read this as well. Many parts of the two segments actually overlap. So the actual pages are not that many. 

Hutcheon, L. (1989). ‘Representing thePostmodernism’, The Politics of Postmodernity. London; New York: Routledge. P1-23

NOTE: for MA