Situated Urban/ Moving Metropolis 2017: Course idea and (preliminary) schedule

Toni Negri has claimed that “the metropolis is for the post-fordist worker what the factory was for the fordist one". The metropolis has become the most significant site of production and the battleground of global precariat. In some sense, we all live in the metropolis. The course looks at movies that represent or are set in the background of the metropolis, and at texts and thinkers who study the concept or the relevant phenomena of present day global metropolis and its development.
The course will consist of readings, screenings of the films and discussions afterwards, and a final assignment.

Preliminary Schedule. We'll work with this, but are open to suggestions from the students, concerning either films, texts, even topics. (Showing the final program now)

19.1. What the course is all about and Eetu Viren on What a Metropolis is all about.

2.2. Beginning from classics (NOTE: meet Arts House, room 245 2.nd floor)

Walter Benjamin: Some Motifs on Baudelaire (for instance https://langurbansociology.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/benjamin-on-some-motifs-in-baudelaire.pdf)

Fritz Lang: Metropolis

16.2. Big city has its own logic

Jane Jacobs: Death & Life: Introduction and Chapter 2. (Can be downloaded as pdf from internet)

Barry Sonnenfield: MIB I

2.3. The Global City

Sassen: The Global City
or Sassen: Women in the Global City - Exploitation and Empowerment.

Shunji Iwai: Swallowtail Butterfly

16.3. Artificial life

Maurizio Lazzarato : Semiotic Pluralism

Maurizio Lazzarato: Struggle, Event, Media

Ridley Scott: Blade Runner

30.3. Precarious life
Precarias a la deriva: Adrift through the circuits of feminized precarious work.