8/31 To be made up 9/2 Introduction to the course The Bug hits the windshield: looking through language 9/9 De Saussure, Ferdinand. From "Course in General Linguistics." In Blackwell edition: "Nature of the Linguistic Sign." Sign, Signified, Signifier: Principle 1: the arbitrary nature of the sign; Principle 2: the linear nature of the signifier: "Immutability and Mutabilty of the Sign." in Longman edition: "The Concrete Entities of Language." 1. Definition, entity and unit; 3. Practical Difficulties of delimitation; 4. Conclusion: "Identities, realities, values" 9/14 Culler, Jonathon. "The Linguistic Foundation" (langue and parole) Barthes, Roland. "The Structuralist Activity" 9/16 Derrida, Jacques. "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" 9/23 Clifford, James. "The Translation of Cultures: Maurice Leenhardt's Evangelism, New Caledonia 1902-1926" 9/28 Bakhtin, Mikhail. From "Discourse in the Novel" NOTE THAT THE CAUCUS FOR FORD 62 IS ONLINE. HYPERLINK PLEASE LOG ON Http://phantom.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~caucus AND PARTICIPATE AS PART OF THE COURSE: JOURNALING H.W. 10/5 Readings not available in Honors Academy Office Sept 28: therefore class assigned to read Marx: The Communist Manifesto on this its 100th anniversary, and to obtain the class packet for background: Hegel, G.W.F., "Dialectics" ; Marx, Karl. From the "Grundrisse"; "The German Ideology"; "Wage Labor and Capital"; "Capital: Commodities; the Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof" 10/7 Finish Marx. Gramsci, Antonio. "Hegemony" from "The Formation of the Intellectuals." Volosinov, V.N. "Marxism and the Philosophy of Language" 10/14, 19 Williams, Raymond. "Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory." We will spend two periods discussing the moves Williams makes and the effects of these moves on his project and by implication for theory. Freud, S. "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" and "Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego." Lacan, J. "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience," and "The Symbolic Order" (from "The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis"). You need not master these texts; look over the psychoanalytic theory handouts, the material on-line, and contribute to the caucus conversation on-line. 10/21 SUBO: "Feminism, Democracy and Human Rights in Sierra Leone." Dr. Kadi Sesay. Bring in a hard copy draft of a kernel you want to develop, explore, dealing with at least two concepts we have dealt with in the class so far. Note: Get comments on first drafts on-line. Please catch up on-line. 10/26 Paper draft two due for discussion. 10/28 Warner, "Homo-Narcissism; or, Heterosexuality" 11/2 Class discussion and critique 11/4 Foucault, M. from "Discipline and Punish" 11/9 Gates, Henry Louis. "Critical Fanonism" 11/11-18 Anzaldua, Gloria. #1 from BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA 11/23 Rubin, Gayle. 'The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex" 11/25 Belsey, "Literature, History, Politics" 11/30 Graphic of your listening space 12/2 Anzaldua #2 & 3. "La Conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness" and "Movimientos de rebeldia y las culturas que traicionan." Begin Said, "Orientalism" 12/7 Finish Said . Discuss paper #2. 12/9 Bhabha, Homi. "The Location of Culture" 12/14 Finish Bhabha. Discuss (1) final exam and (2) cut-off date for caucus work to be counted for you (3) Schedule make-up class? Work on the body (Kirby's "Cannibal Subjects")? (Or Boyarin and Boyarin. "Diaspora: Generation and the Ground of Jewish Identity")? 12/16 If make-up: Work on flesh/the body. Review. Otherwise: Paper Abstracts. 12/21 Papers (or commitment to negotiated due date) due. Make-up class? Paper Abstracts. (Perhaps share a short poem, piece or image (as a handout for the class). Ex: Mirikitani, J. "Prisons of Silence"; Trinh T. Minh-ha, "Not You/Like You: Post-Colonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference." Not req.) 12/23 Final exam scheduled 3:30 - 5:30. Take-home? Oral? Written in class?