courses /spring 07 /danm 203 /schedule
danm203 SCHEDULE
phase I
week 1: situating
4 April
reading
- Wilson, 1
- D&G, "Introduction: Rhizome" (plus trans intro etc.)
- Geoffrey C. Bowker & Susan Leigh Star, "Some tricks of the trade in analyzing classification," Sorting things out: classification and its consequences (Cambridge: MIT P, 1999); access through cruzcat
- recommended: Martha Rosler, "Video: shedding the utopian moment" eres
week 2: net-work
11 April
develop group categories* reading
- Wilson, 6
- D&G, "1440: The Smooth and the striated"
- Chun, Introduction, interlude, "Why cyberspace?"
- Mark Wigley, "Network fever" eres
- Tiziana Terranova, "Free labor: producing culture for the digital economy" eres
- Yochai Benkler, "Social ties: networking together" eres
week 3: locativity
18 April
pick groups* reading
- Wilson, 7.1-.3; 3.4-.5
- D&G, "1837: Of the refrain"
- Chun, "Screening pornography," "Scenes of empowerment"
- Drew Hemment, "Locative arts" eres
- Marc Tuters & Kazys Varnelis, "Beyond locative media: giving shape to the internet of things" eres
week 4: biopolitics
25 April
first paper due reading
- Wilson, 2; 4.3
- D&G, "1730: Becoming-intense, becoming-animal, becoming-imperceptible..."
- Chun, "Orienting the future"
- Giorgio Agamben, "The Politicization of life," "VP" eres
- Amy Villarejo, "Activist technologies: Think Again!" eres
- Pamela Lee, "My enemy/my friend" eres
- recommended: Mongrel/Geert Lovink, "National heritage and body politics" eres
week 5: intimacy
2 May
reading
- Wilson, 7.4-.7; 4.1-.2
- D&G, "November 28, 1947: How do you make yourself a body without organs?" (recommended: "Year Zero: Faciality")
- Chun, "Control and freedom"
- Joseph "Jofish" Kaye & Liz Goulding, "Intimate objects" eres
- Lauren Berlant & Michael Warner, "Sex in public" eres
week 6: mobility
9 May
4-week critical-practice mini-curriculum due reading
- Wilson, 5
- D&G, "1227: Treatise on nomadology – the war machine"
- Anthony Townsend, "Locative-media artists in the contested-aware city" eres
- Karin Knorr Cetina, "Postsocial relations" eres
- Aihwa Ong, "Zones of new sovereignty" eres
- recommended: Vicente L. Rafael, The Cell phone and the crowd: messianic politics in the contemporary Philippines" eres
phase II
week 7
16 May
group 1 presentations
- 3-4 readings (one for each student)
reassemblages
Marc | Will | Mike | Yano
week 8
23 May
group 2 presentations
- 3-4 readings (one for each student)
de/territorializations
Breeze | Brendan | Andreas | Luci
week 9
30 May
paper drafts due group 3 presentations
- 3-4 readings (one for each student)
bodies w&w/o organs; or, desiring machines
Luke | Chau-Marie | Margaretha | Monica
week 10
6 June
group 4 presentations
- 3-4 readings (one for each student)
haecceities & anomalies
Lindsay | Angela | Lea