On Tuesday we watched Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). For this blog post look through your questions on the handout you received in class and choose one or two of the discussion points to elaborate on. Think through the question in relation to the last few weeks of our in-class discussions, and the theme of this course in general. Your post should be at least 300 words long (if you took the time to write down your ideas in class while watching the film, this shouldn’t take you too much time).

Extra Credit Blog Post: For the rest of Thanksgiving Break, please also read Roberto Bolaño’s “Sensini” in the Anthology (original Spanish version is here if you’re interested), and write a 300 word response to it on the blog by Tuesday 9pm. I want you to focus on your papers over break as we’ll close out the semester with a lot of attention on these final projects, but for those of you who could use an extra blog post, this is for you.

For Tuesday, November 29, please listen to the two podcasts on Nihilism linked on the schedule. They’re each between 30-45 min and are in response to each other. I think you’ll find them very interesting and it’ll give us something to talk about in class when we start thinking about wrapping up the course. You’ll hear a lot of familiar voices and reference points to what we’ve done over the past month or so. If anything comes to mind that might fit in to the discussion to come concerning what these podcasts deal with, please bring it in or post it on the blog. This could be anything from music, to political groups, from films to events, etc. I want us to start connecting what we’ve been studying to our current world and our own experiences.

Other than that, be safe and have a happy Thanksgiving!