syllabus

Week 0:::::Chromosome+Delirium+TTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGG 30 August Amitav Ghosh, [|The Calcutta Chromosome]

Week 1:::::Structure+Sign+Play+Nietzsche+Genealogy+History+TTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGG 6 September

Jacques Derrida, "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences," Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass. London: Routledge, pp 278-294 at http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/sign-play.html

Gilles Deleuze, "How Do We Recognize Structuralism?" [|over here, sorry about the size]

Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History,” at http://www.thefoucauldian.co.uk/ngh.pdf

[|Semiotics for Beginners], especially 1-6, 9.

Joan Scott, [|"Fantasy Echo:]History and the Construction of Identity," //Critical Inquiry//27(2):

If you really want to begin analysis with/of Lacan you should start [|with Shoshana Felman], but [|this] is shorter and works OK and maybe all you care to know.

Week 2:::::FemaleMan+OncoMouse+TTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGG 13 September Donna Haraway, [|Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium], 1-120

Michael M.J. Fischer, "Four Genealogies for a Recombinant Anthropology of Science and Technology" forthcoming in Cultural Anthropology

Week 3:::::Living+On+On+On+On+TTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGG 20 September

Jacques Derrida, "Living On: Borderlines" Penelope Deutscher, [|How to Read Derrida] Richard Doyle, [|Wetwares! (University of Minnesota Press)], Chapters 0-2.

Enough sur-vival -- we're on to [|pre-vival...]

Week 4:::::DNA+Difference+TTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGG 27 September

Haraway, Modest Witness, 125-265 Michael J. Montoya, "Bioethnic Conscription" Essays by Palmie, Abu el-Haj, Helmreich, Marks, and Weiss in [|American Ethnologist] v. 34 n. 2 (2007). (On a different but not unrelated note you can read a recent NYT article on Nadia Abu el-Haj's tenure case [|here] Fortun, "Race in the Meantime" ms. plus readers' reviews

Brief and smart biographing of Evelyn Fox Keller [|here.]

Week 5::::: Week 6:::::TTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGG 11 October NO CLASS -- 4S Meetings in Montreal

Week 7::::: Drive+Discourse+TTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGG 4 October Michel Foucault, //History of Sexuality Vol. 1//

Week 8:::::Guts+Feminism+DarwinTTAGGGTTAGGG 25 October Elizabeth Wilson, "Gut Feminism", [|differences 15:3 (2004):66-94]. Elizabeth Wilson, "Biologically Inspired Feminism," http://english.arts.unsw.edu.au/downloads/staffpgs/ew_biologically.pdf Elizabeth Grosz, //Time Travels//, Chapters 1-3, 12. Interview with [|Terence Deacon]

Week 9:::::Cell+Culture+TTAGGGTTAGGG 1 November Hannah Landecker, [|Culturing Life]

Week 10:::::Organ+Gift+Commodity+TTAGGGTTAGGGTTAGGG 18 October

[|THE GLOBAL TRAFFICIN HUMAN ORGANS: A Report Presented to the House Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, United States Congress on June 27, 2001 by Nancy Scheper-Hughes] Deepa Reddy, "Good Gifts for the Common Good" Doyle, //Wetwares!//, Chapter 8

8 November

Week 11:::::Life+Other+Wise+TTAGGGTTAGGG 15 November Stefan Helmreich, [|"Trees and Seas of Information"], American Ethnologist 30(3):340-358 (2003) Stefan Helmreich, [|"After Culture: Reflections on the Apparaition of Anthropology in Artificial Life, a Science of Simulation"], Cultural Anthropology 16(4):612-627. Doyle, Wetwares, Chapter 9

Week 12:::::TTAGGG 22 November NO CLASS -- THANKSGIVING

Week 13:::::TTAGGG 29 November NO CLASS -- AAA Meetings

Week 14:::::WERANOUTOFTELOMERE...WEDEAD (unless of course we are more like [|slime mold] than a cell) 6 December