Reading Lists
2008 Seminar: "Translation"
Required readings for all students, and for faculty in attendance during week 4
Hard copies of readings available in the MFA office, room 104 Fisher Annex
- Introductory Letter from Seminar Coordinator, Paul La Farge
- Walter Benjamin, "The Task of the Translator"
- Paul de Man, "Conclusions: Walter Benjamin’s The Task of the Translator"
- Gilles Deleuze, “What is the Creative Act?”
- Lucy Lippard, “Being in Place”
- Guillermo Gómez-Peña, “Culturas-in-extremis”
- Alexander Luria, “Synaesthesia”
- Synaesthesia Readings from Daria Martin
- "Ammiel Alcalay and the Limits of Translation"
- Ammiel Alcalay, "Approaching the Picket Lines"
Music/Sound Readings:
For all students and faculty in Music/Sound
2007 Readings:
To access Seminar packets for 2007 and prior, click the above link which takes you to Bard's library system. Select the ReserveWeb link, and enter 111111111 (the numeral 1 nine times) for the password. Once in ReserveWeb, select either the Course or Instructor search page, select All Semesters, and search for MFA.