Schedule FA20

Schedule of Readings & Assignments for FA 2020
Readings & assignments are due on the date listed unless otherwise noted. All readings are available via web links, library database links, or pdf. (You must be logged into your Chico State Wildcat Google Drive to access library and pdf links.)
=== 8/25 Course Intro ===
Course Intro & Wikia Workshop (have a Wikia account ready)
"Introduction" from Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, pdf link
Plato: “From Republic” pdf link
Aristotle: “From Poetics” pdf link 
=== 9/1 ===
Begin Partner Wiki Leading
Hegel: "Lordship and Bondage" from Phenomenology of Mind web link
Marx: "The Fetishism of Commodities," from Capital, Volume 1 web link
Freud: “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” pdf link
=== 9/8 ===
de Saussure: “From Course in General Linguistics” pdf link
Empson: “Seven Types of Ambiguity” pdf link
Derrida: "Pharmacia" from Dissemination pdf link
=== 9/15 ===
Woolf: “From A Room of One’s Own” pdf link
Sedgwick: "Introduction: Axiomatic" from Epistemology of the Closet pdf link
Said: “From Orientalism” pdf link
=== 9/22 ===
Foucault: "The Subject and Power" web link 
Deleuze & Guattari: Translator's Foreword & “Introduction: Rhizome” from A Thousand Plateaus pdf link 
Benjamin: “The Work of Art in the Age of It's Technological Reproducibility,” sections 1-12, 19 web link
=== 9/29 Classical Poetics & Criticism ===
Begin Individual Wiki Leading
Horace: “Ars Poetica" web link 
de Pizan: “Christine’s Reaction to Jean de Montreuil’s Treatise on the Roman de la Rose” pdf link 
de Lorris & de Meun, “From The Roman de la Rose” pdf link
Kant, "Art, Beauty, and Genius," from The Critique of Judgement (sections 43 - 49) web link
Friday, October 2 - DUE: AE1
=== 10/6 Marxisms ===
Gramsci: "The Intellectuals," part 1: “The Formation of Intellectuals” from The Prison Notebooks web link
Althusser: “From Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” web link 
Luxemburg, "The Problem of Dictatorship" from The Russian Revolution web link
=== 10/13 Psychoanalysis ===
Lacan: "The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience," from Ecrits pdf link
Kristeva: “From Revolution in Poetic Language” 
Kaplan: "Why Trauma Now?," part 1: Freud and Trauma Studies, from Trauma Culture" pages 24 - 32 library database link
=== 10/20 Formalisms & (post)structuralism ===
Wimsatt & Beardsley: "The Intentional Fallacy" web link
Best & Marcus: "from Surface Reading: An Introduction" library database link 
bell hooks: "Postmodern Blackness" web link 
=== 10/27 Feminisms, Gender & Sexuality ===
Gilbert & Gubar: "Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship," from The Madwoman in the Attic pages 45 - 59 web link
Crenshaw: "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex" pdf link
Berlant & Warner: "Sex in Public" library database link
=== 11/3 US Federal & State Elections ===
No class
=== 11/10 Post-colonialism & (Critical) Race ===
Fanon: "Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom" from The Wretched of the Earth pages 236 - 248 web link 
Tuck & Yang: "Decolonization is not a metaphor" library database link
Mbembe: "Necropolitics" library database link
=== 11/17 Posthumanisms ===
Haraway: "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," from Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature web link
Morton: "Introduction: Critical Thinking," from The Ecological Thought pdf link
Wolfe: “Human, All Too Human” pdf link
=== 11/23 - 27 Thanksgiving Break - No Class ===
=== 12/1 Media, Data, & Digital Humanities ===
(Readings this week are recommended, but not required. Class zoom at the usual time will be on open office hours.)
Hayles: "How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine" web link
Nelson: "Afro-Futurism: Past-Future Visions" web link
D'Ignazio & Klein, "Introduction: Why Data Science Needs Feminism," from Data Feminism web link
Friday, 12/4 - DUE: AE 2
=== 12/8 Reading Week ===
Class Zoom will be open office hours for conferences on AE revisions, Analytical Reflection Drafting, Conclude Wiki work
=== 12/14 - 18 Finals Week ===
DUE: Analytical Reflection Essay assignment link (due via email by 11:59pm on Friday, 12/18)