Outside Readings, for Everyone

Hello young witches and wizards,


Here are some outside readings for extra help in digging through many of the issues we have been discussing so far.
They will help to inform the essays you are going to be writing for the midterm. And all links into "Project Gutenberg", read the text as html, it will work a bit better...

So, two kind of dark and negative categories:

1) Scat and the Anti-Tradition
2) Dark Vision (because it themes well in our class)



Scatology and the Anti-Tradition: Or what I call, a few lines from the Noble and Sophisticated History of Fart Jokes:

We talked about the antitradition and scatology, here is a link to Project Gutenberg:
Francois Rabelais, "Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I, Chapter 1.XIII.—"How Gargantua's wonderful understanding became known to his father Grangousier, by the invention of a torchecul or wipebreech".(they didn't translate torchecul, which translates as 'Asswipe')

Jean Baudrillard, 'Pataphysics


Dark Vision: Society, Spectacle, Prison, Panopticon and Cutting up Men


Guy Debord, "The Society of the Spectacle"(This book is long, but worth while to know, since the Situationist International keeps coming up in the readings, thumb through it and get to know the language and how he uses it to discuss art and politics)


Michel Foucault, "Panopticism", from "Discipline and Punish"(this article is exceptionally important for us today, isn't it?)


Valerie Solanas, "The SCUM Manifesto"(She is the one who shot Andy Warhol and SCUM is her art collective, the Society for Cutting Up Men)

Fight the dark side my paduan 'pataphysicians!