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Course Calendar 446_500_S19-1jibn7x
WEEK |
DATES |
Discussion Leaders |
Reading and Homework Due |
Grad Reading |
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Unit 1: Defining the Post/Humanist Problem |
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| 1 | T | 29-Jan | |||
| Th | 31-Jan | Harraway “A Cyborg Manifesto” 5-16; 52-68 Davies “Encounters with the Posthuman” |
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| 2 | T | 5-Feb | Hayles How We Became Human prologue and “Toward Embodied Virtuality” xi-24 | Descartes “Discourse on Method” 1-44 | |
| Th | 7-Feb | Bogost “Rhetoric” 15-28 | |||
| 3 | T | 12-Feb | Savanah Janssen | Badmington “Theorizing Posthumanism” | Foucault “What is Enlightenment?” 32-50 |
| Th | 14-Feb | Ally Freed | Eclipse Phase: After the Fall | ||
| 4 | T | 19-Feb | Adina Corke | Hallenbeck “Toward a Posthuman Perspective: Feminist Rhetorical Methodologies and Everyday Practice” 9-27 | Butler “Bodies that Matter” 3-27 |
| Th | 21-Feb | Karen Cruz | Eclipse Phase: After the Fall | ||
| 5 | T | 26-Feb | Daniel Strasberger | Boyle “Rhetorical Ecologies of Posthuman Practice” 27-59 | Edbauer “Unframing Models of Public Distribution: From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies” 5-24 |
| Th | 28-Feb | Jon Small | Eclipse Phase: After the Fall | ||
Unit 2: Grappling with the Post/Human Condition |
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| 6 | T | 5-Mar | Duncan Capriotti | Pepperell “Being, Language, and Thought” 77-100 | Heidegger “The Way to Language” 393-426 |
| Th | 7-Mar | Kendyl Rich due: Proposal |
Chiang “Story of Your Life” | ||
| 7 | T | 12-Mar | Alexa Burnstine | Hughes “Being Happier” 43-52 | Foucault “The Birth of the Asylum” 141-167 |
| Th | 14-Mar | Isa Basche | Maniac eps 1-2 | ||
| 8 | T | 19-Mar | |||
| Th | 21-Mar | ||||
| 9 | T | 26-Mar | Tonika Reed Jodi Payne |
Baudrillard “The Ecstasy of Communication” Maniac eps 3-6 |
Derrida “The Ends of Man” 31-57 |
| Th | 28-Mar | No Class – AWP | |||
| 10 | T | 2-Apr | Connor Guetersloh | Graham “Gods and monsters” 221-235 | Heidegger “The Question Concerning Technology” 3-35 |
| Th | 4-Apr | Lauren Louie | Maniac eps 7-8 | ||
| 11 | T | 9-Apr | Marco Randazzo | Pepperell “The Posthuman Conception of Consciousness” | Dogen “Philoaophical View” 91-136 |
| Th | 11-Apr | Edena Khoshaba | Maniac eps 9-10 | ||
Unit 3: Beyond Human Practice |
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| 12 | T | 16-Apr | Andrew Beckner Richard Maloy |
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (film) | Deleuze and Guattari “Introduction Rhizome” 3-25 |
| Th | 18-Apr | No Class due: Annotated Bibliography |
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| 13 | T | 23-Apr | Ann Nguyen | Braidotti “Post-Anthroprocentrism: Life beyond the species” 55-104 | Spinoza “The Nature and Origina of the Mind” 115-152 |
| Th | 25-Apr | Abbi Eli | |||
| 14 | T | 30-Apr | Candice Yacono | Wolfe “Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes after the Subject” 127-142 | Derrida “Violence Against Animals” |
| Th | 2-May | Summer Runion | |||
| 15 | T | 7-May | Jake Vanwormer Lana Sarkisian |
Rickert “Ambient Rhetoric” | Heidegger “Building, Dwelling, Thinking” 343-364 |
| Th | 9-May | due: rough draft | |||
| 16 | T | 15-May | Final Exam: 10:45-1:15 pm | due: Final Project | |
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