Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismSyllabus for the 21st CenturyWe need a new curriculum. [1] Keep the six old white poets, keep the recovered women writers, add any writers of color that exist, add as much material culture as possible, add the suppressed histories of revolutionary ferment in the West Indies, and please add a contemporary cultural literacy unit, one that will equip us to engage the post-Romantic post-modern post-structuralist post-industrial post-colonial post-apocalyptic world we actually inhabit. Readings should include, among theorists, Nietzsche, James (C. L. R.!), Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Butler, Gilroy, Hardt and Negri; among artists Gibson, Ballard, Burroughs, Reed, Russ, Dick, Butler, Delaney; among websites, alternet.org, boingboing.net, crooksandliars.com, slashdot.org. These are only suggestions. Get googling! Notes1. I'm all for new anthologies, but how about one that treats Romanticism as a set of weapons for changing our world rather than a diorama of obsolete dreams? Navigation |