Unit 2: Who is the Future?
Week 5
Tuesday, September 27
- Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely, WE3 [purchase link]
- Moodle: We3 Response
- Plenary and Discussion: The futures of biological lives (meet in Hance first)
- Optional: Scott McCloud Ted Talk on the visual magic of comics
Thursday, September 29 (am)
- Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto”
- Moodle: The Meaning of Cyborgs
- Discussion Section: Defining and redefining the human
Thursday, September 29 (pm)
- Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely, WE3
- Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto”
- Plenary: The animal, the human, and the futures of subjectivity
Week 6
Tuesday, October 4
- Luigi Russolo, Art of Noise: A Futurist Manifesto (1913)
- Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto (1918)
- Jacques Attali, Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1977)
- Moodle: Noise
- Plenary: Fluxus, Dada, and Surrealism
Thursday, October 6 (am)
- Brandon LaBelle, “Gibberish, Gobbledygook.” (2014).
- Discussion Section: Fluxus, Dada, and Surrealism
- Moodle: Fluxus Response
Thursday, October 6 (pm)
- Group Presentations
- Plenary: Fluxus Happening
- Draft of Paper #1 (Difficult Passage) due to Moodle by 5pm, Friday October 7
Week 7
Tuesday, October 11
- Fall Break
Thursday, October 13 (am)
- Jules Ferry (1885), “Les fondements de la politique coloniale [French and English] (28 juillet 1885)”
- Preface to René Maran’s Batouala (p. 7-19), or in French if you are proficient
- BBC News, “Why the future of french is African”
- Moodle: French Colonialism and Its Consequences
- Plenary: Africa: the future: time
Thursday, October 13 (pm)
- Souleymane Bachir Diagne, The Ink of Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa. “The time we need” and “Speech and Ink” (pp. 35-60).
- Section: Africa: the future: time
Week 8
Tuesday, October 18
- Souleymane Cissé, Yeelen (1987), 105 min. Contains scenes of animal cruelty which some viewers will find distressing
- Moodle: Fill out the Viewing Guide
- Plenary: Africa: the future: time
Thursday, October 20 (am)
- Yeelen continued
- TNiara Sudarkasa, “‘The Status of Women’ in Indigenous African Societies,” Feminist Studies 12, no 1 (1986), 91-103.
- Re-read: Niane & Kouyate introductions to Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (1965)
- Re-read: Kane prologue to Beyond Timbuktu
- Discussion Section: Beyond (colonial) time/Pan-African modernity
- Moodle: Connections with Sudarkasa
Thursday, October 20 (pm)
- Moodle: Concept-Mapping Prep Work
- Discussion Section: Reflection exercise