11/27: The Self-Enunciating Eye

• Bellar: The Cinematic Mode of Production 

11/13: Dissections – The Body in Hand

 

• Deleuze/Guattari: On the Genealogy of Morals
• Steigler: The Disengagement of the What
  
• Agamben: Komerrell, Or, On Gesture
• Marback: Unclenching the Fist
• Heidegger: The Question Concerning Technology
• DeLanda: The Geology of Morals – A Neo-Materialist Interpretation

11/6: The Invisible Gland – Affect and Political Economy

• Bargh/Cartrand: The Unbearable Automaticity of Being
• Berlant: Unfeeling Kerry
• Grusin: Affect, Mediality, Abu Ghraib (visuals on bB)
  
• Grusin: Affective Life of Media
• Grusin: Premediation
• Hardt: Affective Labor
• Jameson: Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
• Jameson: Culture and Finance Capital
• Jameson: The Brick and the Balloon
• Massumi: Autonomy of Affect
• Massumi/Zournazi: Interview
• Sedgwick/Frank: Shame in the Cybernetic Fold

10/30: After the Body and Before the Law

• Austen: How to Do Things with Words
• Butler: Bodies That Matter (excerpt)
• Butler: Gender Trouble (excerpt)
• Butler/Connolly: Politics, Power, and Ethics
• Deleuze: On Human Rights
• Derrida: Before the Law
• Kafka: Before the Law
• Kafka: An Imperial Message
• Kafka: A Report to an Academy
• Nietzsche: Preface to the Genealogy (section 13)
• Dolar Quotes
• Voice and Nothing More Powerpoint

Abstractions

Abstracts due below before midnight, Friday, October 26

10/23: Alphabetic Bodies and Distributed Selves

• Rotman: Becoming Beside Oneself
  
• Rotman: Corporeal or Gesturo-haptic Writing
• Rotman: Ghost Effects
• Rotman: Going Parallel
• Rotman: The Alphabetic Body
• Special Guest: Brian Rotman

10/16: Bodies That Splatter

• Doyle: Wetwares!
  
• Doyle: LSDNA
• Doyle: Transgenic Involution
• Special Guest: Rich Doyle

10/9: Bodies under Biopower

• Foucault: Discipline and Punish
• Foucault/Deleuze: Intellectuals & Power
• Deleuze: Desire and Pleasure
• Deleuze: Postscript on the Societies of Control
• Deleuze/Negri: Control and Becoming
• Nealon: Periodizing the 80s
• Burroughs: The Limits of Control
• Notes
• Special Guest: Jeffrey T. Nealon

10/2: Metabiologies and Microrhetorics

• Kenneth Burke: Permanence and Change
• Notes
• Scarry Documents 1, 2, 3
• Neuropolitics Neuropowerpoint

9/25: Tragic Bodies and the Birth of Theory

• Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy
• Nietzsche: Homer’s Contest
• Nietzsche: The Greek State
• Maffesoli: Everyday Tragedy and Creation
• Maffesoli: The Return of the Tragic in Postmodern Societies
• Notes