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Spoiler alert: Grief.
Grief turns us into the perfect spy, and in this course we will be interrogating contemporary novels to explore the ways in which characters and authors use lies, elaborate constructions, false realities, document and narrative manipulation as means of side-stepping, escaping, or fending off grief. We will be reading W.G. Sebald's Rings of
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a political theorist whose work has become increasingly influential in recent years. A student of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, her extensive writings cover such topics as the nature of power, the meaning of the political, and the problem of revolution. This course is a detailed exploration of some of her major works, including The Human
The physics of light and color initially appears simple: light is a wave and the wavelength of light determines color. While this basic physical description of light is easy to state, going deeper quickly opens up large range of questions. How do different wavelengths of light combine to make colors? How does light from different sources interfere? How does light change path
Physically, sound is simply the compression of air around us. However, this relatively simple description obscures a much richer understanding of sound. From how different sounds are generated and perceived to how different sounds can combine to make something new to how to design acoustically pleasant spaces, the physics of sound plays a key role. This course is about the
Magic. Jealousy. Why. Tenderness. Scenes. Waiting. Anxiety. Body. Night.
Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, translated by the poet Richard Howard (1978), is a unique dictionary which defines the language, tropes, and patterns of the actual and fictional experience of love. Using Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther as a primary
