Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Syllabus

Critical Theory A
Critique, Subjection, Prostheses

Fall 2005

Thursdays, 9.00-11.45, Conference Room
Instructor: Dale Carrico, dalec@berkeley.edu
Office Hours: Before and after class and by appointment.

Sept 1 Introduction
Donna Haraway, “A Manifesto for Cyborgs”
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html

Sept 8 Diagnostic Essay Due, 2-3pp.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology

Sept 15 Marx and Engels, The German Ideology (continued)

Sept 22 Roland Barthes, Mythologies

Sept 29 Barthes, Mythologies (coninued)

Oct 6 Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”

Oct 13 Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish
Paper Due, 4-5pp. due

Oct 20 Foucault, Discipline and Punish (continued)

Oct 27 Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality

Nov 3 Foucault, History of Sexuality (continued)

Nov 10 Judith Butler, Undoing Gender

Nov 17 Butler, Undoing Gender (continued)

Nov 24-25 Thanksgiving Holiday

Dec 1 Wendy Brown, Politics Out of History
Take Home Exam Due

Dec 8 Brown, Politics Out of History (continued)

Dec 15 Concluding Remarks
Donna Haraway, “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” (revisited)
Paper Due, 4-5pp.

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