#Steven M Bergson

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Casper’s Spring ‘21 Bookbag

🏳️‍🌈 = LGBTQ content // Bolded = my favorites! // Italicized = NOT a comic or graphic novel // Many of these books may contain adult content. Minors, check with your local librarians to find age-appropriate reading material!

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Passing for Human by Liana Finck

Jewish Comix Anthology: Volume 1 collected by Steven M. Bergson - I love collections of little 1-4 page comics, so much to see in one book!

🏳️‍🌈 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel - A classic, the chapter endings will repeatedly punch you in the gut

I Feel Bad by Orli Auslander 

The Children of Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez - Very strange, and guaranteed to rattle around in your brain for some time

Jewish Images in The Comics: A Visual History by Fredrik Strömberg

The Silence of Malka by Rubén Pellejero and Jorge Zentner - absolutely drop dead gorgeous paintings and warm, naturalistic characterization. Be prepared for a dramatic change in tone, though.

🏳️‍🌈 Spinning by Tillie Walden

🏳️‍🌈 My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Nagata Kabi

🏳️‍🌈 Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

Everything is Flammable by Gabrielle Bell - An engaging glimpse into the artist’s life, and the lives of those around her, with simple but expressive drawings

Your Black Friend by Ben Passmore - A wacky style paired with concise writing. A very quick read.

🏳️‍🌈 This Woman’s Work by Julie Delporte - I love, love, love, LOVE the loose, explorative artwork in this book. I wish I could eat this book like a cake. And it features Tove Jansson! 

🏳️‍🌈 Lost Soul, Be at Peace by Maggie Thrash - The sincere writing made me unexpectedly cry. A+

A Girl Called Echo, Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette, Scott B. Henderson, and Donovan Yaciuk

🏳️‍🌈 gods With a Little g by Tupelo Hassman eh I didn’t like where this one went

Sabrina The Teenage Witch by Kelly Thompson and artists Veronica and Andy Fish - For some reason I’m obsessed with this cleanly drawn and fluffily written book. Its been a bit since I enjoyed a non-indie title this much. Fun and colorful in exactly the way the Netflix show failed to be.

🏳️‍🌈 The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman and artist Chris Riddell

#caspers bookbag #reading #comics #reading recommendations #cas posts #Liana Finck #Steven M Bergson #Alison Bechdel #Orli Auslander #Gilbert Hernandez #Fredrik Strömberg #Rubén Pellejero #Jorge Zentner #Tillie Walden #Nagata Kabi #maia kobabe #Gabrielle Bell #Ben Passmore #Julie Delporte #Maggie Thrash #Katherena Vermette #Scott B Henderson #Donovan Yaciuk #Tupelo Hassman #Kelly Thompson #Veronica Fish #Andy Fish #Neil Gaiman #Chris Riddell #lgbtq comics

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synchornization of the sense syllabus

Course Description:

Synchronizations of Senses (SOS), a seminar/workshop/studio/study group/conversation, is a complement to 4.356Cinematic MigrationsLinks to an external site.. This class invites in-depth examination of sense percepts, noting nuances, and articulating specificities. A generative focus is placed on the practices of varied practitioners­–film directors, artists, musicians, composers, architects, designers–whose writings relay a process of thinking and feeling integral to their forms of material production.

Using prompts suggesting varying contexts, such as The Film Sense, written by Sergei Eisenstein, and The Cinema Interval, written by Trinh T. Minh-Ha, in addition to other writings by Eisenstein and Minh-Ha and others, the intention of this course is to create a space for experimentation, exploratory discussion and productions via aesthetic inquiry into perceptions of all senses.

Testing various ways aesthetic forms and their shifts—historic and contemporary—have relations to still emerging contemporary subjectivities (felt emotion in a human body), in this workshop/seminar we will study productions created by participants, case studies of varied producers, and generate new work individually and/or collaboratively via diverse media explorations, which include reading, writing, drawing, and publishing, as well as photographic, cinematic, spatial, and audio operations productions.

The course contents will comprise screenings, listening assignments, and guest visits, in addition to readings, discussions, and presentations. An aim is conviviality, rigor, and engagement fueled by the willingness of the participants to share perceptions and projects. The SOS Documentation Project, produced by the previous participants, is an ongoing accretive node.

Course References: Filmmakers considered include Sergei Eisenstein, Luis Buñuel, Ousmane Sembene, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Lucrecia Martel, Jia Khangke, Andrei Tarkovsky, John Akomfrah, Jean-Luc Godard, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Abderrahmane Sissako, Haile Gerima, and others. Selected Readings: This is a list of readings indicating what class participants may be able to choose from in relation to their interests. Eisenstein, Sergei. The Film Sense. Edited by Jay Leyda. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1947. Eisenstein, Sergei, and Jay Leyda. Film Form: Essays in Film Theory. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1969. Trinh, T. Minh-Ha. Cinema Interval. New York: Routledge, 1999. Trinh, T. Minh-Ha. Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Trinh, T. Minh-Ha. When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender, and Cultural Politics. New York: Routledge, 1991. Trinh, T. Minh-Ha. Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung. Dictée. New York: Tanam Press, 1982.Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung. Dictee. 1St Calif. pbk. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung., ed. Apparatus, Cinematographic Apparatus: Selected Writings. New York: Tanam Press, 1980. Tarkovskiĭ, Andreĭ Arsenʹevich. Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema. 3Rd University of Texas Press ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. MacKenzie, Scott, ed. Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: a Critical Anthology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. Anthes, Bill. Edgar Heap of Birds. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. Rukeyser, Muriel. The Life of Poetry. New York: Current Books, 1949.Rukeyser, Muriel. The Life of Poetry. New York: Kraus Reprint, 1968. Silko, Leslie Marmon. Almanac of the Dead: a Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.Silko, Leslie Marmon. Almanac of the Dead: a Novel. New York: Penguin Books, 1992. Pamuk, Orhan, and Erdağ M Göknar. My Name Is Red. 1St American ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Pamuk, Orhan, and Maureen Freely. Other Colors: Essays and a Story. 1St U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Buñuel, Luis, and Garrett White. An Unspeakable Betrayal: Selected Writings of Luis Buñuel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Classen, Constance, ed. The Book of Touch. Oxford: Berg, 2005. Classen, Constance. Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and across Cultures. London: Routledge, 1993. Classen, Constance. The Color of Angels: Cosmology, Gender, and the Aesthetic Imagination. London: Routledge, 1998. Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. What Is Philosophy?. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.Deleuze, Gilles. L'Image-Mouvement. Paris: Éditions du Minuit, 1983.Deleuze, Gilles. L'Image-Temps. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1985. Bergson, Henri, Nancy Margaret Paul, and M. E Dowson. Matter and Memory. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1962.Bergson, Henri, Nancy Margaret Paul, and M. E Dowson. Matter and Memory. New York: Doubleday, 1959.Bergson, Henri. Matter and Memory. New York: Zone Books, 1999.  Barad, Karen Michelle. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. Keeling, Kara. The Witch's Flight: the Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. Delany, Samuel R. About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005. Batchelor, David. Chromophobia. London: Reaktion Books, 2000. Arnheim, Rudolf. Visual Thinking. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. Thomas, Sheree R., ed. Dark Matter: a Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. New York: Warner Books, 2000. Marcus, Greil., and Werner. Sollors, eds. A New Literary History of America. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. Albers, Josef. Interaction of Color. 50Th anniversary edition ; 4th edition. New Haven, [Connecticut]: Yale University Press, 2013. Liu, Cixin, and Ken Liu. The Three-Body Problem. First U. S. edition. New York: Tor Books, 2014. Condé, Maryse, and Richard Philcox. Of Morsels and Marvels. London: Seagull Books, 2020. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Readings. London: Seagull Books, 2014.  

The asteriks (***) indicate readings to be read during the initial weeks of the workshop/seminar, as these will allow us to begin discussions of a matrix of terms we’ll be working with–such as functives, percepts, and concepts–in order to share a basis for further probing.

***Moten, Fred. Stolen Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.

‘Anassignment Letters’

***Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. What Is Philosophy?. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.‘Conclusion : From Chaos to the Brain’***Eisenstein, Sergei. The Film Sense. Edited by Jay Leyda. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1947.chapter 2, ‘Synchronization of Senses’

***Wolf, Maryanne. Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World. New York: HarperCollins,

***Ingold, Tim. “Bringing Things Back to Life: Creative Entanglements in a World of Materials.”

University of Aberdeen, 2010.

 Further References:

Spillers, Hortense J. Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Keller, Helen. The World I Live in. New York: The Century co., 1914.

Harris, Laura. Experiments in Exile: C.L.R. James, Hélio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness. First edition. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018.

New Museum (New York, N.Y.). Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. Edited by Johanna Burton and Natalie Bell. New York, NY: New Museum, 2017.

(exhibition catalogue)

Janevski, Ana, and Thomas J. Lax. Judson Dance Theater: the Work Is Never Done. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2018.

(exhibition catalogue)

Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies. The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co. Edited by Jeannine Tang, Ann E. Butler, and Lia Gangitano. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 2018.

(exhibition catalogue)

Hustvedt, Siri. Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays. New York: Picador, 2012.

Brinkema, Eugenie. The Forms of the Affects. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.

Rancière, Jacques. Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art. London: Verso Books, 2013.

Rothenberg, Jerome, and Steven Clay, eds. A Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections about the Book & Writing. New York: Granary Books, 2000.

White, Hayden V. The Practical Past. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2014.

Eagleton, Terry. The Ideology of the Aesthetic. Cambridge, MA, USA: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Lupton, Ellen. Thinking with Type: a Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students. 2Nd rev. and expanded ed. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.

Baer, Nicholas, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Gunnar Iversen, eds. Unwatchable. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019.

Flusser, Vilém, and Nancy Ann Roth. Gestures. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Chute, Hillary L. Why Comics?: from Underground to Everywhere. First edition. New York, NY: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017.

Clark, Samanta and Samuel. Casa Moro. London: Ebury, 2004.

Caruth, Cathy. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History. Twentieth Anniversary edition. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

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REBNY Honors residential leaders and dealmakers at awards gala

The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) celebrated its 30th Anniversary Residential Brokerage Deal of the Year Charity & Awards Gala this Tuesday at The Plaza, where leading professionals in New York City residential home sales and rentals were with honored for their achievements, professionalism, and service to the real estate industry.

REBNY’s 30th on the 30th gala raised funds for REBNY’s “Member in Need Fund,” which provides grants to residential brokerage members who are experiencing a financial crisis or hardship.

“The Residential Deal of the Year Awards are presented to professionals of note who have excelled in and demonstrated their commitment to our industry through their accomplishments and dedicated service,” said John H. Banks, REBNY President. “We were honored to celebrate this year’s award recipients alongside hundreds of their peers at our 30th annual gala, and thank our sponsors and the Residential Deal of the Year Charity & Awards Gala Committee for helping us make this great evening possible.”

THE #RESDOY18 AWARD WINNERS

Steven O. Goldschmidt, Senior Vice President and Director of Sales for the Upper East Side at Warburg Realty, was honored with The Henry Forster Award for Lifetime Achievement. This award recognizes an individual who has a long-standing reputation for excellence in residential real estate, is a top-producing agent who displays outstanding ethical conduct in the profession, and contributes to cultural, charitable, and community organizations outside and within the industry.

Karen L. Duncan of Halstead Real Estate was presented with The Eileen Spinola Award for Distinguished Service. This award honors a REBNY broker or agent who has made significant contributions to the REBNY community by volunteering time, lending expertise and showing leadership in the areas of education, ethics, and professional services. The winner of this award personifies the best of brokers and agents who work tirelessly for the betterment of the residential real estate industry.

Ann Cutbill Lenane of Douglas Elliman took home The Residential Brokerage Agent of the Year Award which recognizes a member Sales Agent or Associate Broker who has demonstrated skilled achievement, superior leadership, high moral character, and professional behavior both in the real estate industry and the community-at-large. Nominations for this award are made by colleagues—salespersons and broker associates—from within the nominee’s firm or the industry-at-large.

Shan Chowdhury of Halstead Real Estate was named The Residential Brokerage Rookie of the Year for his standout accomplishments within his first years working in New York City’s residential real estate market.

Among The Residential Brokerage Division Deal of the Year Sales Awards:

– Sanjya Tidke of Halstead Real Estate and co-broker Mary Dunne of Warburg Realty won the First Prize Residential Sales Award.

– Tristan Harper of Douglas Elliman and co-broker Caroline Guthrie of Brown Harris Stevens took home the Second Prize Residential Sales Award.

– Naomi Davis and Monika Ingram of Brown Harris Stevens received the Third Prize Residential Sales Award.

The Residential Brokerage Division Deal of the Year Rental Award was presented to Derek M. Koch of Douglas Elliman and co-broker Corey Wecler of City Connections.

The winners of the Residential Brokerage Division Deal of the Year Sales and Rental Awards were chosen anonymously through a judging committee. Only members of firms who did not submit deal entries were allowed to judge.

The Member in Need Fund was created in 1994 by the Residential Brokerage Division Deal of the Year Charity and Awards Gala Committee and is supported through proceeds from the Annual Residential Deal of the Year Charity and Awards Gala. The Fund assists REBNY residential members who are experiencing severe financial hardship as a result of a personal or family illness or catastrophic event.

Corporate sponsors for #RESDOY18 were: Chase Bank, Wells Fargo, Popular Bank, Perchwell, Engel & Völkers NYC, World Wide Holdings, Brown Harris Stevens, Hudson Yards, Realtor.com, Romer Debbas, Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson, LLP, Real Plus, Alp Signs, Terra Holdings, Miller Advertising, Apartments.com, Pro National Title, and Family First Funding LLC.

Raffle sponsors for #RESDOY18 were: XL Property Management, AVENUE, The Corcoran Group, New York Post, Patricia Fisher Design, Ace Hotel London, TAO Cares, Brook Furniture Rental, Roadway Moving, The Corcoran Group, Bradford Portraits, 53W53, Tom James of NYC, Katz and Matz, Blossom Restaurant, Loop Consulting Group, Gloria Restaurant, Halstead Real Estate, Brown Harris Stevens, Citizens Bank, Chase Bank, Churchill Living, Spire Realty, Quest Media, Rotisserie Georgette, Toloache NYC, Tre Otto, Buchbinder Warren, Compass, HottinDaro, LIC Pilates, Samuel Shriqui Salon, Soho Grand Hotel, Fox Residential Group, Loco Coco, Chaves, Perlowitz and Luftig Law Firm, Marjorie Hilton Interiors Inc., and Total Tennis.

Photo courtesy REBNY/Richard Lewin