Seminar week 4

Mentioned readings:

Don't know if I actually mentioned his name, but:

Peirce, Charles Sanders. 1974. "Division of Signs" in Collected papers. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Peirce basically argues that all our perception is through signs and symbols, and sets out a sort of theory of them and how they might be named and understood. Really quite hard work, but can be useful.

Eshun, Kodwo. 1998. More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction. London: Quartet Books.

A great read, if really idiosyncratic—the one I was saying compares Depeche Mode to Blind Lemon Jefferson (or Howlin' Wolf maybe). 

And Music:

Billy Holiday singing Abel Meeropol's song, Strange Fruit. If you click through to youtube, there is an HD recording but without video, and a number of videos with pictures of the lynchings she is singing about—hard to watch, but if you've not seen them... perhaps they are a part of US history that you ought to know about?

The Pet Shop Boys—It's a Sin (Live 1991)

This has some fairly sketchy imagery, so pick a different version if you're easily offended.

Some Kraftwerk, who have recently been playing in some very fancy modern art galleries such as MOMA and the Tate Modern: 

Model:

The one I was playing in class: Trans Europe Express:

And, inevitably, the meme from hell—Hitler objecting to the two ticket limit for the show series:

Depeche Mode: Everything Counts:

And the 12" version (Everything Counts in Larger Amounts):

And this is great, DMK, a Depeche Mode cover band from Bogota (a fella and his two kids) version:

Flock of Seagulls: I ran:

Afrika Bambaata with Soulsonic Force (sampling Kraftwerk):