[Urban-Media] Wednesday (Re-Send)

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Dear All:

(I just found out that fas.harvard.edu servers are blocking and bouncing any mails I have sent to 
those addresses in the past week, as the URL in my signature was listed in a spam filter to which 
fas.harvard.edu after our server was infected)

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.
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Shekhar Krishnan
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