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Week 40: 1-7 October 2018

October 7, 2018 By Karl Andersson Leave a Comment

The first week of the program was extremely intense despite Wednesday was a holiday. Modes of representation on Monday and Tuesday; Qualitative methods on Thursday and Friday. An assignment on Monday night, and the graduation exhibition of Generation 9 on Friday, followed by drinks at Krass Böser Wolf.

It feels like being at a very concentrated conference. And that feels great – I devour every minute of the program. One more week of intense, mandatory inhouse classes coming up.

Study

Modes of representation

Videos we watched in class:

  • Jorge Furtado: Ilha Das Flores, 1989
  • Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, 1967
  • Johan van der Keuken: Herman Slobbe / Blind Kind II, 1966
  • Renzo Martens: Episode I, 2002
  • John Smith: Hotel Diaries: Museum Piece, 2004

Not to mention our assignments, here are my three minutes:

Anthropology and Photography

  • Lucie Ryzova, 2014: Nostalgia for the Modern: Archive Fever in Egypt in the Age of Post-Photography, in Costanza Caraffa and Tiziana Serena (eds.): Photographic Archives and the Idea of Nation, pp. 301-318.

Japanese

  • Intermediate Japanese. Review of Chapter 5.
  • Memrise: 47,500
    • 2136 Jōyō Kanji by Grade, level 13 (half) → 500 of 2136 kanji learned

Other

Otaku papers

  • Patrick W. Galbraith, 2011: Lolicon: The Reality of ‘Virtual Child Pornography’ in Japan. In Image & Narrative, Vol 12, No 1, pp. 83-114.

Articles

  • The Economist: The real victims of campus activism are the students (book review of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.)
  • The Economist: Justice Brett Kavanaugh
  • The Economist: High hopes for Hakeem Jeffries
  • The Economist: Flu’s success owes much to its genetic mutability

Video

  • John Smith – The Girl Chewing Gum 1976

Exhibition

  • Malleable Borders, Shifting Identities: 2018 Graduation Exhibition of the Freie Universität MA Visual and Media Anthropology program.

Work

I managed to cram in a podcast episode on Saturday:

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About Karl Andersson

Karl Andersson is attending the MA Visual and Media Anthropology programme at Freie Universität Berlin. He has a background in journalism and is currently researching Japanese subcultures. 日本語で話せます!

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