[Urban-Media] Wednesday

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Dear All:

We will meet next on Wednesday 19 April in MIT Building E-51 Room 393 to discuss the texts listed 
below. We will begin with a presentation by Sarah Waheed and continue with discussion of texts on 
urban social space, the literary public, and the figure of the flaneur in urban cultural history.


Primary Texts

Sarah Waheed, "Bombay and the Adeeb: Exploring Spaces of Sociability amongst Urdu Intellectuals, 
1899-1965", draft chapter of dissertation in the Department of History, Tufts University (2006)
http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Image:Bombay_and_the_Adeeb.pdf

Walter Benjamin, "Berlin Chronicle" in Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, 
Peter Demetz, ed., Edmund Jephcott, trans., New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, pp. 3-60.
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/benjamin_berlin.pdf

Dipesh Chakrabarty, "Adda: A History of Sociality" in Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought 
and Historical Difference, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp.180-213.
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/chakrabarty_adda.pdf

Ismat Chugtai, "From Bombay to Bhopal"
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/chugtai.pdf

Sadat Hasan Manto, "Ismat Chugtai"
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/manto.pdf


Supplementary Texts

Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life"
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/simmel.pdf

David Frisby, Cityscapes of Modernity, London: Polity Press, 2002, ch.1 (The Flaneur in Social 
Theory), ch. 3 (Georg Simmel's Metropolis), ch. 4 (Vienna is not Berlin), ch. 5 (Otto Wagner & 
Vienna), ch. 6 (Social Theory, the Metropolis and Expressionism).

Siegfried Kracauer, The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays, Thomas Levin, ed., trans., Cambridge: Harvard 
University Press, 1995.


Best,


S.K.
-- 

Shekhar Krishnan
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U.S.A.

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