GC 2018 Kyung Hee University (Seoul Campus) What Makes Us Today: Capitalism, Desire and Culture

Professors: Jason Barker and Slavoj Žižek

Course location: College of Science, Nursing Science; room SB108

Time: Weekdays 1.30pm—4.30pm Monday 2 July—Friday 20 July 2018

References to course materials, images, films, books used in the lectures will be posted here throughout the course. Also check here for course updates.

Monday 2 July

Assignment 1

Forests for the 21st century (documentary film produced by the Forestry Commission)

Forestry Commission, 2010 Annual Report

Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Planet of the Apes (1968)


Tuesday 3 July

Assignment 2 

Marx Returns summary chp. 1-9 

Romeo and Juliet (1996)

Inland Empire (2006)

Mulholland Drive (2001)


Wednesday 4 July

China's Web Junkies (2014)

Marx Returns summary chp. 10-19

Thursday 5 July

Rene Descartes, “Meditation I” Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)

The Man with Two Brains (1983) clip 1

The Man with Two Brains (1983) clip 2

Existenz (1999) 

The Truman Show (1998)

Thursday 12 July

Epic or Tragedy? Karl Marx and Poetic Form in The Communist Manifesto