
Copies of a number of the DVDs listed below are held by the Macquarie Library
Topic 1: A Theory of Relativity:
Interpreting Postmodernity
Nietzsche Human all too human (BBC)
Topic 2: Creative Destruction: Modernity and Modernism
The Genius of Photography (BBC) episode 2 (1 & 2 of 4; Sandow, Typologies and Rodchenko) You Tube
The Rite of Spring, Igor Stravinsky (1913 premiere production, Mariinsky Ballet, St Petersburg)
Topic 3: Pomophobia? The Critics of Postmodern Interpretation
Heidegger Human all too human (BBC)
Topic 4: Fearless Speech: Michel Foucault’s History of the Present
Foucault-Chomsky debate 1971. You Tube (2 parts).
This is an excerpt from the Chomsky-Foucault debate which was aired on Dutch television in 1971. The moderator is Fons Elder. For a copy of this debate and several interesting interviews that followed, see Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature, (New York: The New Press, 2006).
Michel Foucault audio archive (Berkeley University)
Topic 5: The Narrative Subject
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes Trailer)
Todd Haynes Talks I'm Not There (three parts)
Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
"I'm gonna get me a new Bob Dylan" No Direction Home (Martin Scorcese)
‘Bob Dylan – Shapeshifter’ (commentary on No Direction Home)
Derrida - defining deconstruction
Persona (Ingmar Bergman) Trailer
Topic 6: Progress and Nature
An Inconvenient Truth
Rachel Carson Silent Spring
Topic 7: Postmodern War: the Postmodern Reading and Experience of War
The Fog of War (re Japan bombing)
Full Battle Rattle (documentary) - 'lost in the scenario'
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence, 12 February 2002
The Rumsfeld Papers - see 9/11 documents and PDF file from his memoirs,
'Known and Unknown', ch.26 'The Agony of Surprise'.
McNamara On Vietnam War 1965/4/26
Lockheed Martin's CEO Is After Your Social Security Check!
Risk & Cyber War:
U.S. probing Lockheed cyber attack
Predator Drones
Topic 8: Postmodern Terror
BBC: Osama Bin Laden; Dead or Alive
Osama Bin Laden's 'intriguing handwritten notes'
FRANCE 24 Report: India - Mumbai: a 'global terror capital'
ABC News - 'Real fear': Your September 11 stories
'For the first time in my life, real fear. The real unknown.'
The Guardian - The 9/11 Decade
Topic 9: The Enterprising Citizen: Governmentality & Neo-Liberalism
The Corporation
Globalisation: The Guardian
Interview – Zygmunt Bauman on the UK Riots
Drone surveillance in the US? Alex Jones says 'the whole world is in danger'
Topic 10: Fitter, Happier? A History of Postmodern Culture
Radiohead Fitter Happier
Talking Heads Once In A Lifetime
JG Ballard - BBC Interview
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/postmodernism/postmodernism-about-t
he-exhibition/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPcZHjKJBnE&feature=related
Topic 11: Opening the Wall: Postmodern Reflections on Modernity
The Possibility of Hope (The Children of Men DVD extra)
Guardian Series - Berlin Wall: 20 years on
‘Postmodernism: from the cutting edge to the museum’, Hari Kunzru,
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 15 September 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/20/postmodernism-10-key-moments
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