Preliminary Class Business
- Course Evaluations
1. "But wait, there's more! . . ." |
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- Poststructuralism, continued . . .
- Postmodernism theory . . .
- Postcolonial theory . . .
- Ecocriticism . . .
- Biopolitics and "animal theory" . . .
- Science Technology Studies . . .
- New materialism, "thing theory," and "assemblage theory"
- Cognitive-studies approaches to literature . . .
- Contrast Plato, from Phaedrus (the myth of Theuth and the invention of writing) (360 B.C.E.)
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2. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
- Capitalism and Schizophrenia (2 vols.):
- Anti-Oedipus (1972; English translation 1983)
- A Thousand Plateaus (1980; English translation 1987)
- Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature (1975; English translation 1986)
A Thousand Plateaus
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(24-25) "Write to the nth power . . . make rhizomes . . . old man river"
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| (p. 10) — Wasp & Orchid |   |
| (pp. 6-7) — Rhizome |  |
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(p 4) — What a book is.
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3. The Digital Age
- Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, p. 16
- George P. Landow, "Hypertext and Critical Theory (excerpt, pp. 1-11)," from Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (1992)
- Alan Liu, "From Reading to Social Computing" (2013)
- Packetization
- Network architecture
- Social structure