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GRADUATE SEMINAR - Fall 2010 - ITAL 830
Italian Biopolitical Thought
Gilles Deleuze, Immanence: a life ...
Taking as a point of departure Gilles Deleuze’s notion of “immanent life”, the course will explore the radical politics of life emerged in contemporary Italian philosophy, literature, and cultural theory. In particular, we will discuss the legacy of Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze, as seen through the lenses of Italian biopolitics.
G. Agamben, "What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays, Stanford University Press; and State of Exception, University of Chicago Press, 2005
M. Cacciari, The Unpolitical: On the Radical Critique of Political Reason, Fordham University Press, 2009
G. Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy, Columbia University Press, 2006
R. Esposito, Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy, University of Minnesota Press, 2008
M. Foucault, Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France 1977—1978, Picador, 2009
T. Negri, Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State, University of Minnesota Press, 1999
G. Vattimo, Dialogue with Nietzsche, Columbia University Press, 2008
Italian Biopolitical Thought
Gilles Deleuze, Immanence: a life ...
Taking as a point of departure Gilles Deleuze’s notion of “immanent life”, the course will explore the radical politics of life emerged in contemporary Italian philosophy, literature, and cultural theory. In particular, we will discuss the legacy of Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze, as seen through the lenses of Italian biopolitics.
G. Agamben, "What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays, Stanford University Press; and State of Exception, University of Chicago Press, 2005
M. Cacciari, The Unpolitical: On the Radical Critique of Political Reason, Fordham University Press, 2009
G. Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy, Columbia University Press, 2006
R. Esposito, Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy, University of Minnesota Press, 2008
M. Foucault, Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France 1977—1978, Picador, 2009
T. Negri, Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State, University of Minnesota Press, 1999
G. Vattimo, Dialogue with Nietzsche, Columbia University Press, 2008
Woot
I really like Woot, though I just found out about it. I saw "Woot woot!" on a Facebook page before, but assumed it was just a conjugation of the exclamation, "Woo woo!" Woot affirms my faith that creativity can be rewarded in business, and you don't have to be stodgy and conservative to turn a buck in today's economy.
3.30.2010
GRADUATE SEMINAR
Fall 2010
Figures of the Political/Economy – Shades of Power
Tuesday 2.00pm-5.00pm
Kenan Labs 125
This class will explore the four major “figures”/theories of power and politics in contemporary social and cultural theory. It seeks to explore the relations among them, the harmonies, fissures and contradictions. For each figure, we will read and discuss founding works as well as more contemporary elaboration. The final part of the class will read a number of recent analyses that, in different ways, attempt to work with and between multiple figures. Below are some possible readings.
The Marxian Legacy I (2 weeks)
Selections from The Althusserean Legacy and Rethinking Marxism,
Resnick and Wolff, David Ruccio, J.K. Gibson-Graham, David Harvey.
The Marxian Legacy II: Hegemony (3 weeks)
Selections from Gramsci, Laclau and Mouffe, Hall, Clarke, Brennan
Biopower (3 Weeks)
Selections from Foucault’s biopolitics trilogy, Agamben, Rose
Autonomy (3 weeks)
Selections from Hardt and Negri, Lotringer and Marazzi, Virno, Marcos,
Connolly, Holloway, Graeber
Conversations, Articulations, and Hybridities (3 weeks)
Selections from Puar, Ruccio, Rajan
3.23.2010
3.22.2010
Zizek
"I see tendencies of proletarianization. By proletarianization I mean people being reduced almost to a kind of Cartesian zero-level - you are a free agent but deprived of substance."
That's love
DJ Shadow
3.18.2010
David Simon on New Orleans
Lots of American places used to make things. Detroit used to make cars. Baltimore used to make steel and ships. New Orleans still makes something. It makes moments. I don’t mean that to sound flippant, and I don’t mean it to sound more or less than what it is, but they’re artists with a moment, they can take a moment and make it into something so transcendent that you’re not quite sure that it happened or that you were a part of it.
3.16.2010
Arsene Wenger
"I believe a big club must have the ambition to win with style ... You know, there is a famous saying, that the only way to deal with your life is to transform it into art, every minute of your life. Football is an art, like dancing is an art – but only when it's well done does it become an art."
3.14.2010
More memes
One meme that I've noticed again and again is (scantily clad) white women in Indian (Native American) headresses. Why is that?
e.g. http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz90gfP8Q31qz7lxdo1_500.jpg
e.g. http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz90gfP8Q31qz7lxdo1_500.jpg
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Spectre Supreme
Oh the hours I played this stupid game. The sound effects are etched in my mind permanently.
3.10.2010
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3.01.2010
Meme
So I think there is something authentically new going on on the internet. It regards re-posted pictures. Sites like ffffound and tumblr traffic in photos, and bloggers routinely steal good photos from one another, with and without citation. So what are the photos that tend to pop up again and again, over time, like deep structures of the psyche? They tend to be suggestive, risque, and a little smutty without being overly pornographic, debauched, or gratuitous.
How is this different from the Rickroll, autotune the news, or other internet memes? I think that because we're dealing with pictures, there is a more subtle configuration of organic sensation that is occurring. The pictures are not art. They cultivate some kind of raw sensuality, a curiousness that transcends the ordinary.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwoabrHZS91qaq59ao1_500.jpg
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