courses /spring 07 /danm 203 /schedule

danm203 SCHEDULE

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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

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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

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finals week: papers due