Titlepage.tv – Episode 1: All over the map

Een nieuw internet-boekenprogramma over globalisatie-literatuur.

Titlepage’s first episode: All Over The Map.
On this episode we “travel” across the world with some of the country’s best novelists. This episode features fiction that takes us to the Lower East Side of New York, a midwestern college campus, the bustling stock exchange of Shanghai, and the neon streets of Las Vegas. Our guests are: Richard Price, Colin Harrison, Susan Choi and Charles Bock.

“One of the best ways to see and understand the world is through first-class fiction” (Daniel Menaker)

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Gilles Deleuze over onderwijs & globalizatie

De Franse filosoof Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) merkte in een kort, maar daarom niet minder belangrijk artikel op dat we op het einde van de 20ste eeuw van de disciplinaire samenleving (zie Michel Foucault) overgegaan zijn naar een controlemaatschappij. Hij wil komen tot “[a] better understanding of what is meant by the crisis of the institutions [door de implementatie van controle], which is to say, the progressive and dispersed installation of a new system of domination.”. Dit heeft grote gevolgen voor instituties als het onderwijs.

City on the Gulf: Koolhaas Lays Out a Grand Urban Experiment in Dubai (The New York Times, 3 maart 2008)

It has been 12 years since the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas unleashed his concept of “the generic city,” a sprawling metropolis of repetitive buildings centered on an airport and inhabited by a tribe of global nomads with few local loyalties. His argument was that in its profound sameness, the generic city was a more accurate reflection of contemporary urban reality than nostalgic visions of New York or Paris.

Conjectures on World Literature – Franco Moretti

Nearly two hundred years ago, Goethe announced the imminence of a world literature. Here Franco Moretti offers a set of hypotheses for tracking the birth and fate of the novel in the peripheries of Europe, in Latin America, Arab lands, Turkey, China, Japan, West Africa. For the first time, the prospect of a morphology of global letters?

Cyberpunk cities – Science fiction meets urban theory (Carl Abbott)

A reading of important cyberpunk novels shows the way in which the ideas of formal urban theory, such as the idea of global cities, cities as communication systems, and the Los Angeles school of urban studies, have been incorporated into this facet of popular culture.