{"id":2294,"date":"2017-10-11T11:04:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T10:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.khm.de\/sag\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2017-10-18T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:13:17","slug":"real-fake-and-the-imaginary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/?p=2294","title":{"rendered":"Winter Term readings &amp; things to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our topic for the Winter term 2017\/18:<\/p>\n<h1>Real, Fake and the Imaginary<\/h1>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what to read and watch. The titles are in the library on the Semesterapparat shelf, unless otherwise noted.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adam Curtis &#8211;\u00a0 Living in an Unreal World, trailer for HyperNormalisation, 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mMM7p2blVXs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mMM7p2blVXs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Adam Curtis\u00a0 &#8211; HyperNormalisation, video essay, 2016, freely available online i.e. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=InbLmw_x6jQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=InbLmw_x6jQ<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bruce Nauman, Walker Art Center, catalogue, 1994<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Naumann, Audio-video underground chamber, catalogue, 2005<\/li>\n<li>Christoph Keller, Observatorium, catalogue, Braunschweig 2008<\/li>\n<li>Mareike Wegener, Mark Lombardi, documentary about the artist, on DVD, 2011<\/li>\n<li>Orson Welles, F for Fake, film essay, on DVD, 1975<\/li>\n<li>Errol Morris, The Unknown Known, documentary, on DVD, 2013 (available online, too, i.e. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=The+Unknown+Known\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=The+Unknown+Known<\/a> )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bruce Sterling , Distraction, novel, 1998<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Sterling, Zeitgeist, novel, 2001<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bertold Brecht, On Restoring the Truth, 1934, October 160, Spring 2017 &#8211; available online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1162\/OCTO_a_00297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1162\/OCTO_a_00297<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bertold Brecht, \u00dcber die Wiederherstellung der Wahrheit, 1934, aus: Gesammelte Werke in acht B\u00e4nden, Suhrkamp, 1967<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook his Wife For a Hat, 1970, (chapter &#8220;The President\u2019s Speech&#8221;, on aphasia) &#8211; online i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.junkfoodforthought.com\/long\/Sacks_Reagan.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Oliver Sacks,\u00a0 Der Mann, der seine Frau mit einem Hut verwechselte, Hamburg 1993<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Francesca Hughes, Truth Is in the Tower, e-flux\u00a0 Journal #84 &#8211; September 2017 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-flux.com\/journal\/84\/149170\/truth-is-in-the-tower\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.e-flux.com\/journal\/84\/149170\/truth-is-in-the-tower\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For a\u00a0 popular imagination, Hollywood take on this, (re-)watch Blade Runner, Fight Club, The Truman Show. Plus Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 for a very contemporary mix of real and fake.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For a quick intro check out these trailers for two of the videos listed above:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"> There are known unknowns; the things we know we don&#8217;t know.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"> There are also the third category of unknown unknows; the things we dont know we don&#8217;t know. And you can only know more about those things by <em>imagining<\/em> what they might be.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"> Pearl Harbor was a failure of imagination. We didn&#8217;t know we didn&#8217;t know they could do what they did in the way they did it.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Unknown Known, documentary by Errol Morris about master liar Donald Rumsfeld, 2013<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Unknown Known Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Donald Rumsfeld Documentary HD\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J-NSyMTpkYI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><script type=\"application\/json\" data-arve-oembed>{\n    \"title\": \"The Unknown Known Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Donald Rumsfeld Documentary HD\",\n    \"author_name\": \"Rotten Tomatoes Trailers\",\n    \"author_url\": \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RottenTomatoesTRAILERS\",\n    \"type\": \"video\",\n    \"height\": 551,\n    \"width\": 980,\n    \"version\": \"1.0\",\n    \"provider_name\": \"YouTube\",\n    \"provider_url\": \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\",\n    \"thumbnail_height\": 360,\n    \"thumbnail_width\": 480,\n    \"thumbnail_url\": \"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/J-NSyMTpkYI\/hqdefault.jpg\",\n    \"arve_iframe_src\": \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J-NSyMTpkYI?feature=oembed\",\n    \"arve_provider\": \"youtube\",\n    \"arve_cachetime\": \"2024-06-07T20:37:05+02:00\",\n    \"arve_url\": \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J-NSyMTpkYI\",\n    \"arve_thumbnail_small\": \"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/J-NSyMTpkYI\/hq720.webp\",\n    \"arve_thumbnail_large\": \"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/J-NSyMTpkYI\/hq720.webp\",\n    \"arve_srcset\": \"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/J-NSyMTpkYI\/hq720.webp 1280w\"\n}<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">You go into an office and sit at your desk. But maybe it is a fake job. Your real job is shopping. The true factories of our times are the shopping malls. That is where the real hard work is done.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A typical Adam Curtis, good intro to how he works.<br \/>\nLiving in an Unreal World, trailer for HyperNormalisation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mMM7p2blVXs\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mMM7p2blVXs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our topic for the Winter term 2017\/18: Real, Fake and the Imaginary Here&#8217;s what to read and watch. The titles are in the library on the Semesterapparat shelf, unless otherwise noted. 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