Course Readings

Most Helpful/Interesting Readings

Adorno
Wonderfully thought-provoking critique

Warner
Really useful in thinking about audiences and community

Anderson
Situates print capitalism as important historical development with widely-felt repercussions

Kassabian
Problematic in certain ways but interesting new idea of subjectivity

Appadurai
Dense but good perspective about globalization


At present, I'm having trouble coming up with a bottom 5. I genuinely liked most of the readings, and it's hard to differentiate the ethnographic ones in terms of helpfulness. If I come up with a clearer idea, I'll post it.