WEEK 1: THE VALUE OF MONEY
WEEK 2: MONEY AS CRYPTO-ALLEGORY
WEEK 3: UNNATURAL VALUES: INTEREST AND GIFT-GIVING
WEEK 4: UNNATURAL VALUES: INTEREST AND GIFT-GIVING II
WEEK 5: THE INVISIBLE HAND
WEEK 6: DEFOE, ROXANA
WEEK 7: COMMODITIES, FICTIONAL VALUES AND GAMBLING
WEEK 8: MARKETS, GAMBLING, MONEY AS MAGUFFIN
WEEK 9: COMMODITY FETISHISM
WEEK 10: FINANCE AS LIFE
WEEK 11: MONEY AS MAGUFFIN II: HYPERBOLIC DISCOUNTING
WEEK 12: THE PSYCHIC LIFE OF MONEY
Since the announcement of the course I planned on following it carefully, reading all of the texts, and making my own observations on my readings. I hope to begin doing that now. Anyone following this blog is more than welcome to follow along and post their own comments. The readings for week 1 are as follows:
Week 1) The Value of Money
Introduction. Exeter Riddles 9 and 95;
Aristotle, PoliticsI, 8-10
handouts by Philip Larkin, Kay Ryan, and George Herbert (“Avarice”)
Ambrose Bierce (Devil’s Dictionarydefinitions of money and wealth)
Yasunari Kawabata, “At the Pawnshop” (Latte)
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XI, 85-145, (Golding Translation)
Milton, Paradise Lost, I, 674-751, VIII, 1-178
There are links to many of these texts on the amimetobios page under the appropriate course week.
https://amimetobios.podbean.com/e/imagining-money-literature-and-economics-1-16-19/
