A little guide:
the slide show is basically a collection of thoughts about an entry from the Grove Encyclopedia:
(a link to a PDF is below this text)
both the article and my summary knit together a bunch of the stuff that we've been talking about:
they lay out a way to understand 'the modern'
they use a variety of ways to tell a historical story, which we now know could be more subtly described as 'modes of being historical
there is a playlist the covers almost everything that's in the slide show. I'm going to keep working on embedding direct links to the specific pieces.
at the end, the slide how outlines how both the article (that you don't need to read, but could) and my summary (which I was going to tell you in class today) use a couple of different ways of being historical to tell its story.
Your work for next time is (as a preparation for your next Viva) is to figure out and sketch for me your next Viva,
Think of this as not a draft of your new Viva, but rather your plan for that viva. B
By that I mean - what kind of narratives are you going to assemble for us.
The questions in the viva guidelines are about what is going on around the piece, but there's FAR too much information to cover in 5 minutes
What kind of narrative helps you organize the things you think are most interesting.
Towards the end of the 'Pocket Botstein' I gave a few possible approaches: Gadamer's classical mode-of-being, emergence, identity, the revolution, kairos, acceleration, and the Sattlezeit.