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PIC 540A/PHIL 480K: Public/Private in the History of Philosophy [Zinkin] Course Descriptions
PIC 540A/PHIL 480K: Public/Private in the History of Philosophy Students are responsible for 15-minute presentations initiating small group discussions, raising questions rather than supporting theses. At least one such presentation is required at each discussion. Students are also responsible for 30 minute presentations at a class miniconference at the end of the semester. Each presentation is to employ and present images from the following sensory or expressive modalities and media: sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell; painting, sculpture, music, drama, dance, film, photography, dress, body ornamentation; images, sounds, aromas, textures; etc. etc. Readings/authors such as: Blanchot, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Plato, Goodman, Foucault, Spinoza, Whitehead, Bergson, Bachelard, Lyotard, Deleuze, Guattari; plus topics such as: wonder, consumer aesthetics, comics, appearance, dress, law, simulation, bourgeois art and aesthetics, eating, consumption; abundance: quantum aesthetics, everyday aesthetics, Buddhism, feminist aesthetics, performativity, domestic aesthetics, eating, urban aesthetics, culture, borderlands, African/African American art, zen; giving, for-giving. Course Syllabus PIC 606W/COLI 541P: Proust [Gaddis-Rose M 1:10-4:10] COURSE DESCRIPTION:Once read through the eyes of Marcel Proust (1871-1922), the world becomes a different place. Yet those who read A la recherche du temps perdu (alternatively translated as "Remembrance of Times Past" and "In Search of Lost Time) in its entirety will alter it in turn. This seminar will provide a site for this interaction and will adopt Proust's own conversational "salon" format. Expectations for those taking the course for credit: 1) At each session, an item to share. "Items" can include an annotated bibliographic entry, a connection with another class, a progress report on long-term seminar project, a personal Proustian involuntary memory sequence. 2) Annotated bibliography, of any work, performance, or exhibit with Proustian implications experienced during the semester. 3) Long-term project. Traditional research paper of 20+ pages; response from another art form (e.g., video, playlet, recording, creative writing); diary or recall of personal Proustian memory sequences (these may be fictionalized or dramatized). PIC 606Z/COLI 535B: Lacan, Psychosis, Fiction [Levinson W 10:00-1:00] COURSE DESCRIPTION: We will investigate Lacan's notion of psychosis, outlined in Seminar III (The Psychoses) in relation to the following fiction, which is by no means "psychotic": Ballard, Crash; Sebald, Vertigo; Cortazar, Blow Up and Other Stories; Perec, W, or the Memory of Childhood; Dick, The Divine Invasion; Perkins; "Yellow Wallpaper"; Arguedas, The Fox from Above and the Fox from Below. We will also study Poe's "Purloined Letter," and Lacan's seminar on that story, as well as the essay "The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire." PIC 608N/SOC 603: World Historical Study of Structural Inequalities [Santiago-Valles T 10:00-1:00] COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will focus on how global differentiation has been theorized in the context of: the capitalist era's social formations ("class," "race"/"ethnicity"/ "culture," "gender"/ "sex," etc.) grounding systemic inequalities conceived as uneven, inter-determined, overlapping, and unequal articulations of a global whole; their historical emergence, their role in domination and resistance, and their current transformations; the linkages between such hierarchies of difference and the construction, reproduction, and crisis of the modern world-system. PIC 608P/AFST 445/PLSC 445: Comparative Black Political Thought [Thomas T R 4:25-5:50] COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will focus on the historical and contemporary political philosophy and theories, anti-systemic movements, and social forces in Africa and the African Diaspora that have fostered anti-systemic challenges to the legacies of slavery, colonialism, racism, sexism, and capitalism in Global Africa. We will examine how a system of Global Apartheid accompanied Africa and the African Diaspora incorporations into the capitalist world system through the instrumentality of racial capitalism. The course will compare and contrast the divergent forms that Global Apartheid has taken across space and time. Here, we will examine how it became embedded into divergent models of capital accumulation ranging from the Atlantic slave trade, various forms of coercive labor practices, the plantation economy to the contemporary global sweatshops. The course will critically analyze the development of Pan-Africanism, divergent forms of African and African Diaspora Marxism and neo-Marxism, feminism and the Africana Womanist perspectives, the various forms of nationalism and Afrocentrism. We will also critically examine critical race theories and race critical theories. We will engage the modernist and the postmodernist political philosophies and theoretical frameworks. PIC 612B/TRIP 572: Translation Workshop: Literary [Arrojo T R 11:40-1:05] COURSE DESCRIPTION: Special training for students to translate literary works, usually from a foreign language to English. PIC 612C/TRIP 573: Translation Workshop: Non-Literary [Arrojo T R 11:40-1:05] COURSE DESCRIPTION: Special workshop training students to translate from fields dependent upon translation (e.g., cross-cultural scholarship, international affairs, world trade, etc.) Usually from a foreign language to English. PIC 612H/COLI 580B: The Translators as Objects off Study and the Interests of the Discipline [Arrojo W 1:10-4:10] COURSE DESCRIPTION: The seminar will discuss the main contemporary trends in translation training and attempt to address questions such as these: What kind of relationships do such trends establish between theory and practice, between the specialist and the translator, and, also, between the original and the translation? Which (implicit or explicit) representations of translation and of the translator do they work with? PIC 616B/PHIL 456D/608A: Critical Theories of Race [Tessman T R 10:05-1:05] COURSE DESCRIPTION: We will begin this course with some history and sociology, looking at race and racial politics in the United States from the 1960-1990s, and we will read a few important pieces of writing on race from the late 1960s, 70s and early 80s. After that, we will focus on more recent scholarship that critically analyzes the concept of race, with an emphasis on how race and racism operate in the United States. The course will include a consideration of some of the widely different approaches taken by critical theorists of race, covering topics such as: theorizing multiple oppressions together, the status of race as illusory, real, and/or constructed; the politics of identity and the value or disvalue of racialized identities; "political race" as a response to racism; the dominance of the black-white paradigm in the United States; critical theories of whiteness; the strategies of resistance tied to different conceptions of race and racism. PIC 621D/HIST 472/576C/AAAS 472: Chinese Women and the Family [Chaffee M 7:00-10:00] COURSE DESCRIPTION: The history of the Chinese family from early imperial times, through the late imperial period with its male-dominated, family-centered ethic, but also with its active literate female population, to the present socialist-and post-socialist-society of the People's Republic. Primary attention will be given to changes in the status of women, their sex roles, occupations, and power, to the history of the women's movement in the 20th century, and to the debate over women's liberation and the socialist revolution. Readings will draw upon biographies and fiction as well as historical and sociological studies. PIC 645H/AFST 482F/COLI 608F/PHIL 480U/649D/WOMN 480J: Transcolonial Figurations-Feminist and Diasporic Oscillations [Allen M 3:30-6:30] COURSE DESCRIPTION: Motile debris, the residue of implosions of post-, neo-, and trans-colonial narratives, not into a collection of readily identifiable categories, but into a fractious gnawing at the marrow of contemporary life, will be the focus of the class. Dehiscent, chancy narratives, animated by the gravitational push, or pull, of borders, longings and luminous habitations, may persistently erode predictable parameters. We will examine the unstable dimensions--gelatinous intervals, transborder flows, slight movements among surfaces, tangles, and glossy strands—which such narratives elicit. Amid incongruous linkages and the ambiguities of unknown error, do transnational theory, literature, performance art and visual forms render urgently flimsy ecologies of survivance? Ever in relation to the memory and vast forgetting, the lacunae, burials, omissions, eclipses and denials, of the colonial archive, the critical implications and promise of the spaces these narratives yield will be a primary area of discussion. The class will emphasize recent transnational feminist and diasporic mixed genre writing, performance art, inter-arts, and activist practices. Transdisciplinary productions in varied mediums, the book, the internet, video, street protest, etc., will be taken up not as one subordinated to or folded into the other, but as enmeshed without duplication in the oscillations between. We will address recent texts and materials by authors such as Bernardine,Evaristo, Gayatri Spivak, ZZ Packer, Abdulrazek Gurnah, Coco Fusco, Marlene Nourbese Philip, Assia Djebar, Dionne Brand, Gerald Vizenor. PIC 655C/COLI 691D: The Logic of Sense [Haver R 1:15-4:15] COURSE DESCRIPTION: A patient reading of The Logic of Sense by Gilles Deleuze, and collateral textsworks upon which Deleuze relied (Alice in Wonderland, for example), as well as work that has found inspiration in Deleuze.
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