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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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