Monday, 3 September 2012

Reading list for the comprehensive exam in cultural history (the making of subjectivity)



Note: The idea of this reading list is to look at different theories and approaches towards the making of subject and subjectivity. I would like to look at subjectivity as a process of social interaction which delimits the borders of “I” in the interaction with power, society and culture and which is informed and driven from three principles perspectives: text, image and materiality. The first bloc General/overlapping titles deals with more general theoretical works, and the three others (first, Visuality; secondly, Embodiment, Materiality, Position; and thirdly, Text, Discourse, Meaning) deal with these particular perspectives I’d like to use in my dissertation research. I subdivided each section by putting together in a separate subsection (Soviet/Russian) books and articles which develop theoretical approaches to the study of subjectivity on Soviet or post-Soviet material.

General/overlapping titles

1.      Ahmed, Sarah. The Cultural Politics of Emotion. New York: Routledge, 2004.
2.      Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.
3.      Bauman, Zygmunt. Liquid Modernity. Cambridge: Polity, 2000.
4.      Benedict, Ruth. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946.
5.      Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckmann. The Social Construction of Reality. Anchor Books, 1966.
6.      Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.
7.      Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.” New York: Routledge, 1993.
8.      Foucault, Michel. Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 1). New York: The New Press, 1998.
9.      Foucault, Michel. Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 2). New York: The New Press, 1999.
10.  Foucault, Michel. Power (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 3). New York: The New Press, 2001.
11.  Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. Vol.1: An Introduction. New York: Vintage Books, 1976.
12.  Garfinkel, Harold. Studies in Ethnomethodology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967.
13.  Ginzburg, Carlo. Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
14.  Goffman, Erving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959.
15.  Haidu, Peter. The Subject Medieval/modern: Text and Governance in the Middle Ages. Figurae. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2004.
16.  Laclau, Ernesto, and Chantal Mouffe. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. London: Verso, 2001.
17.  Landsberg, A. Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
18.  Reckwitz, Andreas. Das hybride Subjekt. Eine Theorie der Subjektkulturen von der bürgerlichen Moderne zur Postmoderne. Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2006.
19.  Santner, Eric L. My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
20.  Taylor, Charles. Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.
21.  Wahrman, Dror. The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
22.  Žižek, Slavoj.  The Sublime Object of Ideology. London: Verso, 1989.

Soviet/Russian

23.  Engelstein, Laura, and Stephanie Sandler (eds.). Self and Story in Russian History. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000.
24.  Kaganovsky, Lylia. How the Soviet Man Was Unmade: Cultural Fantasies and Male Subjectivity Under Stalin. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.
25.  Kiaer, Christina, and Eric Naiman (eds.). Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.
26.  Kujundžić, Dragan. The Returns of History: Russian Nietzscheans After Modernity. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.
27.  Naiman, Eric. “On Soviet Subjects and the Scholars Who Make Them,” Russian Review, Vol. 60 (July 2001), 307–315.
28.  Rotkirch, Anna. The Man Question Loves and Lives in Late 20th Century Russia. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 2000.

Visuality

29.  Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida. New York: Hill and Wang, 1981.
30.  Benjamin, Walter. Arcades Project. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
31.  Bennett, Tony, “The Exhibitionary Complex,” New Formations, 4 (Spring 1988).
32.  Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. New York: Viking, 1973.
33.  Bois, Yve-Alain. Painting as Model. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.
34.  Coombs, Annie E., History after Apartheid:  Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa. Durham:  Duke, 2003.
35.  Crary, Jonathan. Suspensions of Perception. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
36.  Foster, Hal. The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994.
37.  Gombrich, Ernst. Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation. London: Phaidon, 1960.
38.  Krauss, Rosalind E. The Optical Unconscious. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994.
39.  Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. The Visible and the Invisible. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968.
40.  Mitchell, W. J. T. What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
41.  Sekula, Allan, “The Body and the Archive,” October, 39 (Winter 1986). 

Soviet/Russian

42.  Gough, Maria. The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution. University of California Press, 2005.
43.  Groys, Boris. The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Embodiment, Materiality, Position

44.  American Historical Review Conversation: Historians and the Study of Material Culture, American Historical Review, Vol. 114, No. 5 (December 2009), pp. 1355–1404.
45.  Appadurai, Arjun (ed.), The Social Life of Things: Commodities in cultural perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
46.  Bennet, Jane. Vibrant Matter. A Political Ecology of Things. Durham: Duke University. Press, 2010.
47.  Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
48.  Bourdieu, Pierre. Pascalian Meditations. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.
49.  Brown, Bill. A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
50.  Brown, Bill. Things. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
51.  Certeau, Michel de, The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California, 1988.
52.  Coole, Diana, and Samantha Frost (eds.), New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
53.  Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, and Eugene Rochberg-Halton. The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
54.  Latour, Bruno. The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil D'etat. Cambridge: Polity, 2010.
55.  Massumi, Brian. Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
56.  Miller, Daniel (ed). Home Possessions. Material Culture behind Closed Doors. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 2001.
57.  Roche, Daniel. A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of Consumption in France 1600–1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
58.  Sedgwick, Eve. Touching Feeling. Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.
59.  Stoler, Ann Laura. Along The Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties And Colonial Common Sense. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009

Soviet/Russian

60.  Barlett, Djurdja. FashionEast: The Spectre That Haunted Socialism. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010.
61.  Bernstein, Frances Lee. The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses. DeCalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007.
62.  Buchli, Victor. An Archeology of Socialism. Oxford: Berg, 1999.
63.  Crowley, David, and Jane Pavitt (eds.). Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2008.
64.  Kiaer, Christina. Imagine No Possession: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism.
65.  Reid, Susan and David Crowley (eds). Style and Socialism: Modernity and Material Culture in post-War Eastern Europe. Oxford, 2000.
66.  Simpson, Pat. “Parading Myths: Imaging New Soviet Woman on Fizkul’turnik’s Day, July 1944,” Russian Review. Volume 63, Issue 2 (2004), p. 187–211.
67.  Widdis, Emma. “Faktura: depth and surface in early Soviet set design,” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, 3:1 (2009), pp. 5–32.

Text, Discourse, Meaning

68.  Althusser, Louis. Lenin and Philosophy, and Other Essays. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972.
69.  Butler, Judith. Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative. New York:  Routledge, 1997.
70.  Derrida, Jacques. Margins of Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
71.  Foucault, Michel. The Archeology of Knowledge. New York: Pantheon Books, 1971.
72.  Jakobson, Roman. Child Language, Aphasia and Phonological Universals. The Hague: Mouton, 1968 (1941).
73.  Lacan, Jacques. The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1968.
74.  LaCapra, Dominick. Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
75.  Laclau, Ernesto. Emancipation(s). London, Verso, 1996.
76.  Ricœur, Paul, “The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text,” New Literary History, Vol. 5, No. 1, What Is Literature? (Autumn, 1973), pp. 91-117
77.  Silverstein, Michael. Talking Politics: The Substance of Style from Abe To “W.” Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003.
78.  Skinner, Quentin. Visions of Politics. Vol. 1. Regarding Method. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
79.  Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.
80.  Voloshimov, Valentin. Marxism and the Philosophy of Language. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1973.

Soviet/Russian

81.  Borenstein, Eliot. Overkill: Sex Violence, and Russian Popular Culture after 1991. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.
82.  Dobrenko, Evgeny. The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
83.  Halfin, Igal. Stalinist Confessions: Messianism and Terror at the Leningrad Communist University. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.
84.  Halfin, Igal. Terror in my soul: Communist autobiographies on trial. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.
85.  Hellbeck, Jochen. Revolution on my Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin. Cambridge, Mass., 2006.
86.  Holmgren, Beth (ed.). The Russian memoir. History and literature. Studies in Russian. Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2003.
87.  Kelly, Catriona. Refining Russia: Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
88.  Lipovetsky, Mark. Russian Postmodernist Fiction: Dialogue with Chaos. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
89.  Ries, Nancy. Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation During Perestroika. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 1997.

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