2011-2012 Readings

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2010-2011 Readings

Friday, March 11, 2011, 3-5pm, “Logistics” – Featuring: Talk by Jake Kosek (UC Berkeley) on “Ecologies of Empire: the New Uses of the Honey Bee”

Suggested Readings:

:: Ulrich Beck’s “Risk Society Revisited: Theory, Politics, and Research Programmes” Chapter 12 (211-229) in The Risk Society and Beyond (2000)

::  Brian Massumi’s “Potential Politics and the Primacy of Preemption” Theory & Event 10:2 (2007)

Archive:

Friday, October 15, 3-5 pm, “Forgiveness”

:: Claudia Card, “The Moral Powers of Victims” Chapter 8, The Atrocity
Paradigm (OUP, 2002), pp. 166- 187.

:: Donna Haraway, “Sharing Suffering: Instrumental Relations between
Laboratory Animals and Their People” Chapter 3, When Species Meet
(Minnesota Press, 2008), pp.69-94.

These chapters available in PDF: forgiveness.

Friday, November 5, 3-5pm, “Experiment”

:: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Prologue and Chapter 5 “Reproduction and
Difference,” Towards a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing
Proteins in the Test Tube (Stanford University Press, 1997).

:: Astrid Schrader, “Responding to Pfiesteria piscicida: Phantomatic Ontologies, Indeterminacy, and Responsibility in Toxic Microbiology” Social Studies of Science 40:2 (April 2010): 275-306.

Friday, January 21, 2011, 3-5pm, “Propagation”

:: Lee Edelman, “The Future is Kid Stuff: Queer Theory, Disidentification, and the Death Drive” Narrative 6(1) January 1998: 18-30.

:: Jocelyn Holland, “The Poet as Artisan and the Instruments of Procreation” in German Romanticism and Science: The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis and Ritter (2009), 85-95.

Friday, February 4, 2011, 3-5pm, “Ecology”

Deleuze & Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus (1987) Chapter 10: “Becoming-Intense, -Animal, -Imperceptible.”