Opinion essay to be presented to journalist for publication. discuss effort to persuade member state of the IMF to launch another large expansion of special special drawing rights SDR and imf overall conditionality on browsing country add and an “ask” to derive future change/solution to advocate for.
In “The Richard Mutt Case” Marcel Duchamp mounts a defense of his 1917 work Fountain. After outlining that defense, explain what it reveals about Duchamp’s priorities as an artist: what does he value? why is this important? Finally, how does this text help us better understand the object?
Richard Mutt Case: Marcel Duchamp, “The Richard Mutt Case,” in Art in Theory 1900-2000, eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, 252
Question: : Wilson’s postwar novel gives us the characters Tom and Betsy Rath. From the pages you read, how would you describe this pair? What do they value? What do you think they represent? Next, put them in dialogue with a work by or featuring Jackson Pollock from class. How could we discuss the Raths and Pollock in relation to one another? In other words, how do the Raths help us understand the radicality (or lack thereof) of Pollock?
Novel: Sloan Wilson, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955), 1-30
The aim of these papers is to give you practice in situating works of art in their historical contexts and/or within the larger field of art history. What can the ambitions of an artist—as outlined in an artist statement— or the responses of critics—as articulated in a review—tell us about the priorities or values of a particular historical moment; and then how can we deploy that information in offering our own accounts of what is happening in a week of art? How can we assess the work of scholars who came before us and then position our thought in relation to theirs?
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF SYRACUSE
Images make arguments—sometimes explicitly but more often than not implicitly as well. And it’s not simply the
decisions made by photographers, advertisers, etc. that shape the way that arguments and communities are understood; the social, political, cultural, and historical contexts in which those arguments are produced and consumed also influence the way we make meaning of those images and arguments.
practice looking at visual texts and considering them in relation to our shared readings and your own research, with the goal of understanding these representations in new ways. We’ll raise questions and make analytical claims about the implications of those images and representations of the Syracuse campus and community, exploring the intentional and unintentional consequences those images have for their respective audiences and the society at large.
Write an argumentative essay advocating for your idea of the “best regime” or the ideal or the best possible political system. reflect upon how your conception of the “best regime” relate to and/or differ from some of the philosophers that we have studied in class. Discuss how your ideas and arguments have been informed and inspired by political philosophers from the past.
You are encouraged to engage with the ideas and arguments of the philosophers whom we have studied in class. However, you may in addition engage with philosophers whom we have not studied, if you feel confident and strongly.
Make sure that you explain and use the arguments of the philosophers accurately. Make specific reference to either primary texts (philosopher’s own writing) or secondary texts (other people’s commentaries on the philosopher’s arguments/ideas. Provide adequate citation for the texts that you use.
In writing your essay consider the following questions, as guides. You don’t have answer all the questions. However, use them to structure your thinking and writing.
Why should there be rulers or a system of political rule?
What should be the goal (s) or ends of political rule? What should politics try to accomplish/establish
Who should be the rulers? What should be the ideal qualities of for leaders/rulers?
How should the rulers be selected?
What sort of limitation should there be on political power and on the rulers, if any?
What kinds of freedoms, rights, and privileges should be granted to the citizens or the members of the political community, if any?
What kinds of responsibilities, obligations, and duties should there be for citizens or the members of the political community, if any?
