So I think there's a very good chance I would have refused to go very far even with the original experiments. I wouldn't have started this time round, as I knew about the Milgram experiments from the early 80s. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
The most dangerous influences are not necessarily overt pressure, but things you're not even aware of. So I gave students the example that as an art student I'd tended to accept the Romantic myth of the artist - art as an individualistic matter of the expression of feelings, etc. Many of my students came to the course wanting to be ART photographers or Art film-makers, at least in my course they became consciously aware of the nature and origins of such culturally powerful ideas as Romanticism. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
