WINTER
READINGS
order
and chaos may change at any time
WEEK ONE:
Re-Grounding:
Place, Art, & Nature
MONDAY
(1/5): The
Great Northwest: the search for regional identity
READ: "Regionalism
and Regional Identity" and Epilogue (pp. 47-120 & 158-182)
WEDNESDAY
(1/7): Reenchantment
of Art, Suzi
Gablik
WEEK TWO:
Philosophical Inquiry
MONDAY
(1/12):
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality,
J.J.
Rousseau
WEDNESDAY
(1/14): Civilization
and its Discontents,
Sigmund Freud
WEEK THREE:
Strange
Lands, Profound Nature
MONDAY
(1/19): Holiday
WEDNESDAY
(1/21): Arctic
Dreams, Barry
Lopez
WEEK FOUR:
...Strange
Lands, Profound Nature
MONDAY
(1/26): Arabian
Sands, Wilfred
Thesiger
WEDNESDAY
(1/28): Wind,
Sand, and Stars, Antoine
de Saint Exupery
WEEK FIVE:
Values
and Loss
MONDAY
(2/2):
Farewell to Matyora,
Valentin
Rasputin
WEDNESDAY
(2/4): Spell
of the Sensuous,
David Abram
WEEK SIX:
Return
to Wonder
MONDAY
(2/9): Galapagos,
Kurt
Vonnegut
WEDNESDAY
(2/11): Mr
Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders,
Lawrence
Weschler
WEEK SEVEN:
Mice,
Men, Mountains, Machines
MONDAY
(2/16): Holiday
WEDNESDAY
(2/18): Guns,
Germs, & Steel,
Jared
Diamond
READ:
9-130; 157-214;
239-281; 354-375; 405-425
WEEK EIGHT:Humans,
Societies, & Transformations of the Natural World
MONDAY
(2/23): Seeing
like a State, James
C Scott
READ:1-52;
103-146; 223-345
WEDNESDAY
(2/25): What
are People for?,
Wendell
Berry
WEEK NINE:Ecocide/Ecoscam
MONDAY
(3/1): End
of Nature,
Barry McKibben
WEDNESDAY
(3/3): Ecoscam,
Ronald Bailey;
Ucommon Ground, 82-83;
182-185
WEEK TEN:The
World Outiside
MONDAY
(3/8): Landscape
and Memory,
Steven Schama
READ:
3-19; 61-100; 142-153; 179-242; 362-374; 385-446; 526-538; 546-560;
571-578
WEDNESDAY
(3/10): Future
of Life,
E.O.
Wilson