Contents

 

Introduction
About these "Lectures"

Lecture I
On the Question “What is Cultural Studies?”

Lecture II
The Dialectic of Enlightenment I – Bach, Kant, Theresiana, Frederick, Sade, Horkheimer/Adorno

Lecture III
Borges: Fragments, Dreams, and the Meaning of Tradition - Part I
Borges: Fragments, Dreams, and the Meaning of Tradition - Part II (TBA)

Lecture IV
Kafka and the Crisis of the Society of Discipline

Lecture V
Degeneracy, Culture, and Critique - Part I: Science, Reason, and Knowledge I Degeneracy, Culture, and Critique, Part II (Notes)

Lecture VI
Fetishism and Popular Culture - Umberto Eco's Casablanca

Lecture VII (TBA - notes only)
The Frankfurt School and Cultural Studies

Lecture VIII
The Origins of Cultural Studies in the U.K.

Lecture IX (TBA)
Intellectuals, Power, and Commitment

Lecture X (TBA)
The American Reception -- Social and Cultural Context

Lecture XI (TBA)
The American Reception - Identity, Authenticity, and "Multiculturalism"

Lecture XII (TBA)
Societies of Control

Lecture XIII (TBA)
Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies

Note. 
Here are additional talks related to these lectures:

Ives, Bernstein, and Adorno on the Crisis/Crises of the 20th Century, part I. 2019.

 

Ives, Bernstein and Adorno on the Crisis/Crises of the 20th Century, part II: Music and the Culture Industry.
 
Ives, Bernstein and Adorno on the Crisis/Crises of the 20th Century, Part III: An Anti-Critique.

Music: Alban Berg's Lulu and Adorno's commentary. 2013. 

Remarks on "The Imperial Scholar" for "Bias in Academia - a Panel on the Politics of Citation" sponsored by the Pratt Institute Libraries. 2018.

 

Between Nature and Society: Empowering Research on the History of Science.
 
The Sound of Extinction without the Sound of Humans? Bernie Krause, Soundscape Ecology, and "Natural" Soundscapes in the Anthropocene

Continuity and Discontinuity in Aronowitz’s Critiques of Sociology, Science, and Marxism: for “Stanley Aronowitz and the Labors of Theory” 2017.

Remarks for "A Community Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day". 2017.

Honoring and Engaging Aronowitz: Remaking the Knowledge Factory. 2011.

Remarks on the Successful Institutionalization and the Political Failure of Cultural Studies. 2008.