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DATETOPICASSIGNEDREADING ORVIEWINGRECOMMENDEDREADING ORVIEWING ( pdfs )DUE FORTHE DAYSept. 6Course introductionExcerpt from C. P.Snow, “The TwoCultures”*Gardner, “WhyDoes Theatre PlusScience EqualPoor Plays?”Fuchs, “Visit to aSmall Planet”(useful forstudents unfamiliarwith readingdramatic literature:read at yourleisure)*Spectrumexercise*Freewritingon “TwoCultures”S 11The Science Play:Goals andChallenges*Read “ OxygenStudy Packet”pp. 4-8; 11-14;15-22 ( pdf)*Rovelli,“Architecture ofthe Cosmos”Ferris, “The Domeof Heaven”In-Classviewing ofscenes fromDjerassi/Hoffman Oxygen(The entirevideo isavailable onrequest)S 13Libido Sciendi :Finding the rightperspective onnature*Ferris, “The SunWorshippers” and( pdf )*Shlain, “ClassicalArt/IdealPhilosophy” and“StationaryPerspective/Absolute Rest” ( pdf )Sprat, “Languageand Expressions”( pdf )“Overview ofPerspective”*Brecht, Galileo( pdf or via DramaOnline Database)*Ferris, “TheWorld inRetrograde” ( pdf )Youtube: JosephLosey film of“Galileo” athttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v 074YKv7OwzsS 18The Scientist Takesthe StageAckerman,“Leonardo DaVinci Art inScience”Youtube: The Daythe UniverseChanged: Point ofView: ScientificImagination in theRenaissance
S 20“God Said: ‘LetNewton Be!/And allwas light”*Ferris, “Newton’sReach”*Gunderson,Emilie: LaMarquise DuChâtelet DefendsHer Life TonightS 25EnlightenedManiacs: NewtonMeets the DigestingDuck*Berger, GreatMen of ScienceNos. 21 & 22*”NewtonianScience”*Lin, “Science inTheatre”S 27A Darkened View ofthe Enlightenment:Present Meets Past*Stephenson, AnExperiment withan Air Pump ( pdf )*skim the studyguideGrads: Barnett, “AMoral Dialectic:Stephenson’s AnExperiment withan Air Pump ”October 2*”Thunderbolts andLightning (Very, VeryFrightening!)”:Electrical lcomecollection.org/articles/charged-bodies*“Sir HumphreyDavy andFrankenstein ”*When ScientistsWent Mad: The(Melo) Drama ofHubrisYoutube: The Daythe UniverseChanged: InfinitelyReasonable:Science Revisesthe Heavens
From Shelley,Frankenstein(read chapters 4,5, 23, 24 enstein/O 4O 9Too Hot to Handle:New Energies, EtherPhysics, and TheHeat Death of theUniverseDarwin’s Big Idea* Trusted, “Problems: *Asimov, “The LastEnergy and Ether”Question” at*Rovelli, “Probability, http://multivax.comTime, and the Heat/last question.htmlof Black Holes”*Byron, “Darkness”( pdf )* take a glance at*Parnell, TrumperyBryson, “Darwin”“Darwin andReligion”Youtube: The Daythe UniverseChanged: Fit toRule: Darwin'sRevolutionDixon on rwinO 11(De)volution of theSpecies: HumanNature “Red in toothand claw”*Wertenbaker,After Darwin*Huxley, “Progressand the SocialOrganism” ( pdf )O 16Double Helixes,Double Crosses andDoubled Selves: Or,Send in the Clones*Ziegler,Photograph 51 (anaudio of the play isavailable at DramaOnline)*Churchill, ANumber ( pdf )Hamletmachine justto get a sense of itsfragmented structureIn-classviewing ofscenes fromBeckett,Endgameand Müller,Hamletmachine
O 18Adventures in theAtom: The Unseenand Un-Scene*Alda, Radiance( pdf )*Bryson, “TheMighty Atom” ( pdf )Bryson, “ElementalMatters”Grads : Henderson,“VibratoryModernism”O 23“What IsMeasure/When theUniverse Flips?”:Einstein, Dream toNightmare*Lightman, fromEinstein’s Dreams(read at least fourchapters)Rovelli, “The MostBeautiful ofTheories”*Ferris, “Einstein’sSky” ( pdf )Youtube: The Daythe UniverseChanged: MakingWaves: The NewPhysics - NewtonRevisedO 25Gone Fission: HotIsotopes and ColdWarsMullin, Louis SlotinSonata (availableon Kindle only -the-strangedeath-of-louis-slotinO 30When Mad ScientistsDurrenmatt, TheVideo ofstagedversions ofEinstein’sDreams;ExcerptsfromWilson/Glass, Einstein onthe Beach
Go NuclearPhysicists ( pdfand at DramaOnline)Quark and Dagger:Quantum Weirdness*Stoppard,Hapgood ( pdf )*skim “MIT StudyGuide forHapgood ”( pdf )Rovelli, “Quanta”N 6MoreAdventures inUncertainty:What ReallyHappened inCopenhagen?*Begin Frayn,Copenhagen( pdf : an audio isavailable atDrama Online)*Rovelli,“Particles”“ CopenhagenStudy Guide”View scenesfrom BBCCopenhagenN 8The Search fora sturbing theSpirits of thePast”Grads:View scenesfrom BBCCopenhagenNovember1*Edwards,“Science inHapgood andArcadia ”* Grads : Jernigan,“Tom Stoppardand ‘Postmodern’Science” (pp. 3-17only)Dasenbrook,“ Copenhagen : TheDrama of History”( pdf )
N 13Welcome to -scientists/#74fce0cc66ceN 15“Things FallApart (It’sScientific!)”Stoppard, Arcadia(Act One)*Edwards,“Science inHapgood andArcadia ” ( pdf )Youtube: ViewCapra, Mindwalk* Grads : Jernigan,“Tom Stoppardand ‘Postmodern’Science” (pp.17-end)N 20“It’s the End ofthe World AsWe Know It(and I FeelFine)”* Arcadia (ActTwo)* One fromGrads : Kramer,“Stoppard’sArcadia:Research, Time,Loss”Science in aNew Climate*Waters, On 1/28/science/what-is-climate-change.htmlThe Scienceand Politics ofCatastropheWaters,ResilienceN 22pre-selectedchoice of readingsper assignedgroups: math,physics,landscape)N 24:THANKSGIVINGBREAKNOV 27Bottoms, “ClimateChange ‘Science’on the London“Descartesscene” fromMindwalk
Stage”Nov 29New Directionsin ScienceTheatre*Campos,“Searching forResonance”*Campos andShepherd-Barr,“Science andTheatre in OpenDialogue”December 4Lapses of theSynapses:Trauma,Memory, MindComplicite,MnemonicD 6Where Does “I”Live? WhereDoes MeatBecome Mind?Gordon, On Ego( pdf )AnalogueTheatre, 2401Objects (pdf )D 11We Are Cyborg: “Transhumanism,TheandPerformance of Posthumanism”the PosthumanD 13: Last classFinal Wrap:Can TheatrePlay withScience?Grads : VandenHeuvel, “‘TheAcceptable Faceof theUnintelligible” orAbbott, “SimonMcBurney’sSearch for thePure Math Play”ADisappearingNumber andRonconi,InfinitiesBartleet,“PerformingScience (NotEthics) inAnalogue’s 2401Objects ”Scenes from2401 ObjectsGiannachi,“Cyborg Theatre”Stelarc,Orlan,Critical ArtEnsemble
Other Resources*Caltech’s series “The Mechanical Universe” (53 30-minute episodes, mostly lectures) athttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v XtMmeAjQTXc&list PL8 xPU5epJddRABXqJ5h5G0dk-XGtA5cZ outube Page: https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysicsYUW Writing Center Page on Writing about Literature: https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/*” MinutePhysics
death-of-louis-slotin O 3 0 W h e n M a d S c i e n ti s ts Durrenmatt, T h e. G o N u c l e a r P h ysi ci st s ( p d f and a t D rama Online) November 1 Q u a r k a n d D a g g e r : Q u a n tu m W e i r d n e s s . verse-for-non-scientist s/#74fce0cc66ce N 1 5 "T h i n g s F a l l Ap a r t ( I t' s .
