1. It's Back-to-School Eve, and that means one thing:
Time to tweet out this term's new @MedillSchool @NU_PAS @NorthwesternU interactive syllabus,
The #ViralUnderclass: How Journalists Cover Outbreaks, Depict Humans as Viruses, and Make News Go Viral
2. Epigraphs by @strongthomas @edyong209 & Zoe Leonard
3. WEEK ONE - I make soundtracks for my classes. This yr's will start w "U" film by @Menelas74
vimeo.com/271836714
Readings: "Panopticonism" by Foucault americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/…
"“Ferguson & the Criminalization of American Life" by (the late) Graeber gawker.com/ferguson-and-t…
4. WEEK TWO - Parasite! Class and Neoliberal Capitalism
Soundtrack: Jung Jae-il/믿음의 벨트 (“Opening”)
5. Viewing: Parasite, Bong Joon Ho
Readings: @etammykim, “How South Korea Solved its Mask Shortage”
nytimes.com/2020/04/01/opi…
@balhorn_max, “Parasite: A Window into South Korean Neoliberalism”
jacobinmag.com/2019/11/parasi…
6. Readings: Don McNeil, "Your Ancestors Knew Death in Ways You Never Will" "nytimes.com/2020/07/15/sun…
7. WEEK THREE - Race/Racism
Soundtrack: @TheLivingMJ, "AIDS is God's Punishment"
Readings: @JuliaLMarcus, “The Fun Police Should Stand Down"
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
@TheLivingMJ @JuliaLMarcus 8. Readings:
@Ethnography911, “Race, Epidemics and the Viral Economy of Health Expertise,” thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2020/0…
@edyong209, “How the Virus Defeated America,” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
9. Video, "The Story of Ebola"
10. WEEK FOUR - Scapegoats
Soundtrack: @MykkiBlanco "Hideaway"
Readings: @JuliaLMarcus and @drjessigold “Colleges are Getting Ready to Blame Their Students"
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
11. @apoorva_nyc, “‘The Biggest Monster’ Is Spreading. And It’s Not the Coronavirus" nytimes.com/2020/08/03/hea…
12. WEEKS FIVE & SIX - Borders
Soundtrack: “AIDS prevention song en español” (artists unknown")
Readings: @byadamrhodes, “As Puerto Rico Battles Hurricane Season, HIV-Positive Folks Begin to Brace for the Worst”
13. @byeliseam, “The Shortages May Be Worse than the Disease” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
@grahambrewer, “American Violence in the Time of Coronavirus,” hcn.org/issues/52.6/in…
14. Video, Frontline, "Forever Prison" pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
15. Soundtrack: "Hija de Perra - “Reggaetón Venéreo”
Readings: Chris Bell, "I'm Not the Man I Used to Be"
@scottlong1980, "HRC and the vulture fund: Making Third World poverty pay for LGBT rights"
paper-bird.net/2013/11/04/hrc…
16. New work-in-progress from the brilliant @oyemalu. Check out their recent work, featured in Duke's Care in Uncertain Times Syllabus
read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-ab…
17. WEEK SEVEN - AUSTERITY, FROM ATHENS TO APPALACHIA
Soundtrack: Zachie Oh/Zak Kostopolous, "Sweet Transvestite"
Readings: @ZachWritesStuff, "The Coronavirus Is Blowing Up Our Best Response to the Opioid Crisis" newrepublic.com/article/158645…
18. Readings: @chasestrangio, "Appreciation: Lorena Borhas," washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Eleni Kostopoulos, "“My Gay Son Was Kicked To Death, And I'm Still Seeking Justice" huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zak-kost…
19. Video: @ForensicArchi, "THE KILLING OF ZAK KOSTOPOULOS," @ForensicArchi forensic-architecture.org/investigation/…
20. In class guests: A conversation with @Kassandra_Fred and @ZachWritesStuff on the role of austerity in disease transmission, harm reduction, drug use and wellness.
21. WEEK EIGHT - ANIMALS
Soundtrack, "Ebola!"
Readings: @ferrisjabr, “How Humanity Unleashed a Flood of New Diseases” nytimes.com/2020/06/17/mag…
Fast Food Nation, Chapter 9: "What's In the Meat?" (Spoiler: "there's shit in the meat.")
22. Readings: @Arbuthnott, @JCalvertST and @philipsherwell, "“Revealed: Seven year coronavirus trail from mine death to a Wuhan lab" drive.google.com/file/d/1zXtE1B…
23. Video: "United in Anger" (UnitedInAnger) by Jim Hubbard and @sarahschulman3
24. WEEK NINE - The Liberal Carceral State
Soundtrack: Dr. Curtis Woolf, "The Hepatitis Song"
Readings: Dara Kam, “Florida not required to treat prisoners with costly medication for Hepatitis C, court rules” tampabay.com/florida-politi…
25. Readings:
@SamTLevin , “Oregon prisoners evacuated due to fires are being pepper sprayed by guards" theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s…
26. WEEK TEN - Presentations
Soundtrack: St. Pedro, "Phone Sex"
Soundtrack: Pet Shop Boys, "Being Boring"
27. WEEK ELEVEN - Presentations
Soundtrack: Sufjan Stevens, "Visions of Gideon"
28. For final projects, students must read one of the following four books in its entirety and use it as an analytical frame (@ginakolata) or ...
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