ENGLISH 2PC3

POPULAR CULTURE

Undergraduate

Winter 2026 · C01

Readings

Winter 2025 · C01

John Green’s Anthropocene Reviewed “Sycamore Tree” – pages 251-255 “Penguins of Madagascar” - pages 107-111 “Air-Conditioning” – pages 73-78
IG page @everydayclimatechange
Jenny Odell “How to Do Nothing” – video
Susie O’Brien and Imre Szeman, “Introduction”, Popular Culture: A User’s Guide, Nelson , 2014, pp. 1-16
Benjamin Kunkel, “Inventing Climate Change Literature,” The New Yorker - Oct. 24th 2014
Real-life Analytical Snapshot #1
Min Song, Climate Lyricism – Introduction. Pages 1-15
David Wallace Wells' The Uninhabitable Earth – chapter “Storytelling” pages 128-141
Real-life Analytical Snapshot #2
Rob Nixon's Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor – pages 1-24
“Suddenly, in a Public Place” – Poem by Vivimarie Vanderpoorten
Buy Now! : The Shopping Conspiracy on Netflix
Real-life Analytical Snapshot #3
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Real-life Analytical Snapshot #4

Open City
Teju Cole · Required
Random House Trade Paperbacks · ISBN 9780812980097; 0812980093

Sources