The Image of Justice

Julia Sonnevend 

 

Syllabus, Spring term 2008

Communications Department,  Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary


2/25 Introduction

 

3/3 Theorizing the Image of Justice

  • W.J.T. Mitchell, The Pictorial Turn. In Picture Theory, University of Chicago Press, 1994, p. 11-34
  • Yvonne Jewkes: Media & Crime. Sage, 2004, p. 35-62.

Optional: Richard K. Sherwin: Legal Storytelling. Culture’s Tools for Making Meaning. In When Law Goes Pop. The Vanishing Line Between Law and Popular Culture. p. 41 - 71


3/10 Performance and Symbolic Action

  • Valentin Rauer, Symbols in Action: Willy Brandt’s Kneefall at the Warsaw Memorial. p. 257-283
  • Jeffrey C. Alexander, From the depths of despair: performance, counterperformance, and “September 11”.  p. 91 – 114

In Social Performance, Cambridge University Press, 2006

 

3/17 The Politics of Representation

  • Ronald N. Jacobs: Race, Media and the Crisis of Civil Society. Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 81 – 139

 

3/24 – Spring break

 

3/31 The Image of Crime

  • Yvonne Jewkes, Theorizing Media and Crime. In Media & Crime, Sage, 2004,  p. 1-34
  • Vincent F. Sacco Media Constructions of Crime, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 539, Reactions to Crime and Violence. (May, 1995), p. 141-154

 

4/7 Visual Representations of Criminal Trials

  • Douglas Kellner: Saddam Hussein’s Trial Should Be Televised
  • http://www.collegenews.org/x4801.xml
  • SYMPOSIUM: THE NUREMBERG TRIALS: A REAPPRAISAL AND THEIR LEGACY: ESSAY: THE ROMANCE OF NUREMBERG AND THE TEASE OF MORAL JUSTICE. 27 Cardozo L. Rev. 1731  

 

4/14 Court Shows

 

4/21 Visual Representations of Surveillance

  • Elayne Rapping: Signs of the Times. Oz and the Sudden Visibility of Prisons on Television, New York University Press, 2003, 71 – 99

 

4/28 The Image of War

 

5/5 The Image of Legal Scholarship

 Jack M. Balkin: Online Legal Scholarship: The Medium and the Message

http://yalelawjournal.org/2006/09/06/balkin.html

 

 

 

Susan Sontag as Cultural Icon

 Julia Sonnevend

Spring term, 2008, Communications Department, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 

 

2/26 Introduction: Susan Sontag and the Photographs of Annie Leibovitz

 

3 /4  Cultural Sociology and the Iconic Turn

  • Jeffrey C. Alexander, Iconic Experience in Art and Life (excerpts)

 

3/11 Iconology in Art History and Visual Culture

  • W.J.T. Mitchell, The Pictorial Turn. In Picture Theory, University of Chicago Press, 1994, p. 11-34

 

3/18 Photographs as Icons

  • Susan Sontag: On Photography

 

3/25 Spring break

 

4/1 Illness as Metaphor I. 

  • Susan Sontag: A betegség mint metafora (in Hungarian)

 

4/8 Illness as Metaphor II.

  • Susan Sontag: A betegség mint metafora (in Hungarian)

 

4/15 Visual Representations of Suffering I.

  • Susan Sontag: Regarding the Pain of Others

 

4/22 Visual Representations of Suffering II.

  • Susan Sontag: Regarding the Pain of Others

 

4/29 Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon

  • Carl Rollyson, Lisa Paddock, Susan Sontag The Making of an Icon.

W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 2000

 

 

5/6 Hungarian remembrance of Sontag

 

 

5/13 Exam

 

 

The Theory of Democratic Culture 

 

Julia Sonnevend

Syllabus, Spring term 2008

Communications Department,  Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Inspired by the Information Society course of Jack M. Balkin and the Information, Regulation, Production course of Yochai Benkler at Yale Law School, 2006-07

 

 

2/26 Introduction

Sonnevend Júlia: Mondd, kedvesem, mikor jelölsz végre vissza a Facebookon? A demokratikus kultúra elméletéhez.

(in Hungarian) http://www.es.hu/index.php?view=doc;19321

 

3 /4 Defining Democratic Culture 

Jack M. Balkin, Digital Speech and Democratic Culture

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/telecom/digitalspeechanddemocraticculture.pdf  1-26. l.

György Péter, A be nem váltott ígéret (in Hungarian)

,http://nol.hu/cikk/467675/

 

3/11 Codes

Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books, 1999. chapter 1

http://www.eu.socialtext.net/codev2/index.cgi?code_is_law

Julian Dibbel, A Rape in Cyberspace

http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle.html

 

3/18 Access to Knowledge  I.

Jack M. Balkin, What is Access to Knowledge?

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2006/04/what-is-access-to-knowledge.html

Yochai Benkler, The Idea of Access to Knowledge

http://research.yale.edu/isp/a2k/wiki/index.php/Yochai_Benkler%2C_April_21st_Transcript

 

3/25 Spring break

 

4/1  Access to Knowledge II.

Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 1, 2

http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks_Chapter_1.pdf

http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks_Chapter_2.pdf

 

4/8 Access to Knowledge  III.

Amy Kapczynski, The Access to Knowledge Movement and the New Politics of Intellectual Property Law (forthcoming Yale Law Journal publication, 2008)

 

4/15 The Culture of Virtual Worlds and Social Softwares

Beth Simone Noveck, Democracy of Groups

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/telecom/noveckademocracyofgroups.pdf

Yochai Benkler, There is No Spoon

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/telecom/yochaibenkerthereisnospoon.pdf

 

4/22 Values and Design

Friedman, Batya, and Nissenbaum, Helen. “Bias in Computer Systems.” ACM Transactions on Information Systems 14, no. 3 (1996): 330-47.

http://isp.law.yale.edu/files/folders/feb5/entry116.aspx

Winner, Langdon. “Do Artifacts Have Politics.” In The Whale and the Reactor, 19-39. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1986.

http://isp.law.yale.edu/files/folders/feb5/entry119.aspx

 

4/29 Technological Standards as Regulation

Laura DeNardis, Eric Tam, Open Documents and Democracy

http://isp.law.yale.edu/static/papers/Open_Documents_and_Democracy.pdf

 

5/6 Peer Production and  the Open Source Movement

Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3, 4

http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks_Chapter_3.pdf

http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks_Chapter_4.pdf

Roy Rosenzweig, Can History Be Open Source?

http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/d/42

 

5/13 The Democratic Culture of the Blogosphere 

Daniel W. Drezner, Henry Farrell, The Power and Politics of Blogs.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/telecom/dreznerandfarrellblogpaperfinal.pdf

Jack M. Balkin, What I Learned about Blogging in a Year.

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2004/01/what-i-learned-about-blogging-in-year.html

Jack M. Balkin: Online Legal Scholarship: The Medium and the Message

http://yalelawjournal.org/2006/09/06/balkin.html