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 Dr. Andrew Wood
Office: HGH 210; phone: (408) 924-5378
Andrew.Wood@sjsu.edu


Review

These are the major terms and concepts I want you to master for the upcoming examinations. This list is subject to change as we progress throughout the course. This review is designed to highlight ideas and concepts that will be found on the test. Even so, the review does not include every word that will appear on the exam; it merely serves to guide your study of the texts, notes, web resources, and other materials employed throughout this course.

Midterm
Revealing Public Life
Rhetoric: definition and extent
Public life: six qualities

City of Layers
William Gibson's "Gernsback Continuum" [plot overview, concept definition, political reference]
Things to Come [Contrast between two values]
Norman Bel Geddes, Motor Car No. 9 [What style?]
Art Deco [era and value]
Streamline Moderne [era, value, and two attributes]
Semiotic ghosts [definition and examples]

Rhetoric of Just Hierarchy

Utopia [definition and etymology]
Starship Troopers and the body politic
Historical background of The Republic
Institutions of The Republic
Waves of The Republic [Book Five]
Classes of The Republic

Rhetoric of Ubiquitous Surveillance

Thomas More [biographical sketch]
Critiques of European problems
A Man for All Seasons excerpt
Primary themes of Utopia
Private property
Universal labor
Family
Religious tolerance
Contagion containment

Rhetoric of American Exceptionalism

European and American Jeremiad
Three paradoxes in "Model of Christian Charity"
Heterogeneity
Property
Threat

Rhetoric of National Socialism

Class warfare
1886 Haymarket Riot
Parable of the Coach
Four themes of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward
Centrality of public life
Equality of labor
Elimination of money
Scientific socialism
Three critiques
Too undemocratic
Too mechanized
Too static

Final

City of Gardens
Heterotopia
Pieter Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
Contemporary examples
Ebenezer Howard's Garden City concept
Three qualities and one site
Leo Marx: The Garden and the Machine
Adams' dynamo
Garden qualities [classroom-created]
Pleasure Gardens
World's Fairs: Enclosing "Civilization"
1893 Columbian Exposition
Middling the "Lady Managers"
Field of Dreams analysis

City of Tomorrow
1939-40 New York World's Fair
Theme Center
Motto
Democracity
Two values
General Motors Futurama
Walter Lippman observation
Westinghouse Exhibit
The Middleton Family
Comparing 1939 and 1940 versions of the fair
Planners vs. "the People"
American Common "Negro Week"
2010 Shanghai Expo
Mascot
Motto

City of Domes

Logan's Run example
Walter Benjamin's arcade definition
Enclavic rhetoric
"Honky Tubes"
EPCOT Center
Classroom thematic analysis
Disney's Celebration
Nostalgia Greek roots
Pleasantville example
New Urbanism
Current ownership
City Hall classroom analysis

Militarization of Public Life

Brutalist architecture
Timeframe, etymology, four principles
Habitat 67
Mike Davis critique
Containment, bumproofing
Surveillance society

Mediation of Public Life

Edmundson critique
Internet as centrifugal technology
Ubiquitous communication
Declining Social Capital (four causes)
Harris Interactive poll on cell phone usage
Fear of Missing Out
Anticipatory Disengagement 

Augmentation of Public Life

Definition
Three qualities
Kristine Somerville's analysis of graffiti
Four affordances
Banksy examples

Revitalization of Public Life

Rockwell's Freedom of Speech (classroom analysis)