Tue. 1/7 Due: Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Toward and Investigation.” (56-88). 1970.
In class: Introductions Discuss syllabus
WEEK 2: Poststructuralism
Tue. 1/14 Due: Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish. (1-333). 1977.
WEEK 3: Postmodernism
Tue. 1/21 Due: Lyotard, Jean-François. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. 1979.
In class:Scholar Biography Presentation
WEEK 4: Postmodernism
Tue. 1/28 Due: Deleuze, Gilles and Feliz Guattari. “Introduction” to A Thousand Plateaus. (3 - 28). 1987 Habermas, Jürgen. “Introduction: Preliminary Demarcation of a Type of Bourgeois Public Sphere.” (1-26). 1981. Baudrillard, Jean. “The Procession of Simulacra.” (1-40). 1983.
In class:Scholar Biography Presentation (2)
WEEK 5: Postcolonialism
Tue. 2/4 Due: Said, Edward. Orientalism. 1978.
In class:I Wish We Were Reading/Watching/Listening to/Experiencing This Presentation Scholar Biography Presentation
Week 6: Feminism
Tue. 2/11 In class: Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: Essays onAbjection. (1-112) From “Approaching Abjection” to “Semiotics of Biblical Abomination.” 1982 Butler, Judith. Bodies that Matter. (Selections). (1-55). 1993.
In class:I Wish We Were Reading/Watching/Listening to/Experiencing This Presentation Scholar Biography Presentation
WEEK 7: Postcolonial Feminism
Tue. 2/18 Due: Spivak, Gayatri. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (66-111). 1985. hooks, bell. “Postmodern Blackness.” (23-31). 1990. duCille, Ann. “The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies.” 1994. Spillers, Hortense. “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book.” (64-89). 1987 Harjo, Joy and Gloria Bird. Selections from “Reinventing the Enemies’ Language.” 1998
In class:I Wish We Were Reading/Watching/Listening to/Experiencing This Presentation Scholar Biography Presentation (2)
Week 8: Posthumanism
Tue. 2/25 Due: Haraway, Donna. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.” (1-90). 1985 Hayles, N. Katherine. “The Materiality of Informatics.” 1993. Miller, Carolyn. “What Can Automation Tell Us About Agency?” (137-157). 2007.
In class:Initial Thoughts on Final Essay Presentation
WEEK 9: No Class
Tue. 3/3 NO CLASS: Spring Break
WEEK 10: Posthumanism
Tue. 3/10 Due: Turkle, Sherry. Reclaiming the Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. (1-448). 2016.
In class:I Wish We Were Reading/Watching/Listening to/Experiencing This Presentation Scholar Biography Presentation
WEEK 11: Decolonial Feminism
Tue. 3/17 Due: Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, Ann Ruso, and Lourdes Torres, editors. Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. First section: (viii - 314) 1991.
In class:I Wish We Were Reading/Watching/Listening to/Experiencing This Presentation Scholar Biography Presentation
WEEK 12: No Class
Tue. 3/24 NO CLASS: I (and some of you) will be at the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
WEEK13: Decolonialism
Tue. 3/31 Due: Mignolo, Walter. The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options.(1-458) 2011.
In class:Final Essay Ideas Reshaped Presentation
WEEK 14: Contemporary
Tue. 4/7 Due: Arola, Kristin and Adam Arola. “An Ethics of Assemblage: Creative Repetition and the ‘Electric Pow Wow.” (204-221). 2017. Babak, Larissa and Benjamin Lauren. “Looking back to ‘Sound in/as :: Memory and Place’ at SSRW 2018.” (n.p., digital piece). 2018. Carey, Tamika L. “A Tightrope of Perfection: The Rhetoric and Risk of Black Women’s Intellectualism on Display in Television and Social Media.”(139-160). 2018. Driskill, Qwo-Li. “Decolonial Skillshares: Indigenous Rhetorics as Radical Practice.” (3-78). 2015.