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Lacan and Psychoanalytic Thought (and Practice) (Graduate)
COL: 5092H (also: VIC 401) Fall Term 2010 PART 1: Introductions Week 1: Lacan, Lacanian, Lacanians and Late Capitalism (16 September) Introduction The four discourses, then and now Week 2: Background. Concepts (23 September) Lacan: “The Place, Origin and End of My Teaching,” and “So, You Will Have Heard Lacan” from My Teaching; Recommended: Homer: 1-64, 111-128; Fink: “Listening and Hearing,” 1-23; Grosz: 1-49; Zizek: 1-6. Week 3: Background. Concepts (30 September) Lacan: “The Instance of the Letter or Reason Since Freud” (Écrits); Tokyo Discourse; Recommended: Fink: “Reading ‘The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious,’” 63-105; Homer: 65-94Grosz: 50-114. PART 2: Seminars Week 4: Seminar I: Freud’s Papers on Technique (7 October) Week 5: Seminar I: Continued (14 October) Week 6: Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (21 October) Week 7: Seminar VII: Continued (29 October) Week 8: Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (4 November) Week 9 Seminar XI: Continued (11 November) Week 10: Seminar XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis (18 November) Week 11: Seminar XVII: Continued (25 November) Week 12: Seminar XX: On Feminine Sexuality, The Limits of Love and Knowledge (2 December) Critical Thinking on the Bike (Undergraduate) HUM 199 H (2011) Week 1: Introductions (11 January) How to think critically on the bike without crashing? How to think about crashing? How to crash without thinking? Or: What is the problem of praxis? Cycling on one’s own and cycling together. Thinking on one’s own and thinking together. Cycling and thinking the world over. Week 2: Bike Criticism (18 January) Zack Furness’ One Less Car (Intro) David Herlihy’s Bicycle: The History (Intro) Jeff Mapes’ Pedaling Revolution (Intro) Week 3: Bike Criticism, continued (25 January) One Less Car (Chapters 2 and 3) Bicycle: The History (Part 1) Week 4: Bike Writing (1 February) David Byrne’s Bicycle Diaries (Introduction, American Cities) Bicycle: The History (Part 2) Week 5: Bike is History (8 February) Bicycle: The History (Parts 3, 4) Roland Barthes’ What is Sport? (selection on Tour de France) Week 6: Bike Monkeys (15 February) Richard Poplak’s Kenk Week 7: Biking the World Over (1 March) Global (Ciclovia, Vélib, Scandinavia, Japan, China) Bicycle: The History (Part 5, Conclusion) Week 8: Mitigating Crash (8 March) Critical Mass (in general and in Toronto–Carlsson, Beiler) Week 9: How to Die on the Bike (15 March) Beckett’s Molloy/Krabbé’s The Rider/Breaking Away/Pee Wee’s Big Adventure/The Bicycle Thief/HG Wells’ The Wheels of Chance One Less Car (Chapter 5) Week 10: Bike Collectives and Anti-Collective Collectives (22 March) Bike collectives/cooperatives (Urbane, Bike Pirates, CBN, Cinecycle, Bike Union, Bike Business, Bikejoint, Cyclometer, et al.) (Final paper draft due) One Less Car (Chapter 7) Week 11: Bike Art/Bike Politics (29 March) Mobile Kitchen/Velocity Week 12: Bike Style/Bike Life (5 April) Bike Life-Style (design, courier, fixie, bmx, DIY) One Less Car (“DIY Bike Culture”; “Conclusion: ‘We Have Nothing to Lose but Our (bike) Chains’”) Marxism and Form (Graduate)
This course will depart from Fredric Jameson’s 1974 work Marxism and Form, in which Jameson develops a dialectical analysis of culture (with an emphasis on the problem of aesthetic form) by working through some of the key figures of Western Marxism—namely, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Bloch, Lukacs, and Sartre. We will begin with Jameson’s text and then carefully return to the work of those he examines (with equal care granted to the study of Marx and Hegel). The second half of the course will be dedicated to pushing this cultural theory into the present with an examination of such figures as Karatani Kojin, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Jacques Ranciere, Alain Badiou, Gayatri Spivak, Wang Hui, and Jameson’s latest work.
COL: 5092H (also: VIC 401) Fall Term 2010 PART 1: Introductions Week 1: Lacan, Lacanian, Lacanians and Late Capitalism (16 September) Introduction The four discourses, then and now Week 2: Background. Concepts (23 September) Lacan: “The Place, Origin and End of My Teaching,” and “So, You Will Have Heard Lacan” from My Teaching; Recommended: Homer: 1-64, 111-128; Fink: “Listening and Hearing,” 1-23; Grosz: 1-49; Zizek: 1-6. Week 3: Background. Concepts (30 September) Lacan: “The Instance of the Letter or Reason Since Freud” (Écrits); Tokyo Discourse; Recommended: Fink: “Reading ‘The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious,’” 63-105; Homer: 65-94Grosz: 50-114. PART 2: Seminars Week 4: Seminar I: Freud’s Papers on Technique (7 October) Week 5: Seminar I: Continued (14 October) Week 6: Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (21 October) Week 7: Seminar VII: Continued (29 October) Week 8: Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (4 November) Week 9 Seminar XI: Continued (11 November) Week 10: Seminar XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis (18 November) Week 11: Seminar XVII: Continued (25 November) Week 12: Seminar XX: On Feminine Sexuality, The Limits of Love and Knowledge (2 December) Critical Thinking on the Bike (Undergraduate) HUM 199 H (2011) Week 1: Introductions (11 January) How to think critically on the bike without crashing? How to think about crashing? How to crash without thinking? Or: What is the problem of praxis? Cycling on one’s own and cycling together. Thinking on one’s own and thinking together. Cycling and thinking the world over. Week 2: Bike Criticism (18 January) Zack Furness’ One Less Car (Intro) David Herlihy’s Bicycle: The History (Intro) Jeff Mapes’ Pedaling Revolution (Intro) Week 3: Bike Criticism, continued (25 January) One Less Car (Chapters 2 and 3) Bicycle: The History (Part 1) Week 4: Bike Writing (1 February) David Byrne’s Bicycle Diaries (Introduction, American Cities) Bicycle: The History (Part 2) Week 5: Bike is History (8 February) Bicycle: The History (Parts 3, 4) Roland Barthes’ What is Sport? (selection on Tour de France) Week 6: Bike Monkeys (15 February) Richard Poplak’s Kenk Week 7: Biking the World Over (1 March) Global (Ciclovia, Vélib, Scandinavia, Japan, China) Bicycle: The History (Part 5, Conclusion) Week 8: Mitigating Crash (8 March) Critical Mass (in general and in Toronto–Carlsson, Beiler) Week 9: How to Die on the Bike (15 March) Beckett’s Molloy/Krabbé’s The Rider/Breaking Away/Pee Wee’s Big Adventure/The Bicycle Thief/HG Wells’ The Wheels of Chance One Less Car (Chapter 5) Week 10: Bike Collectives and Anti-Collective Collectives (22 March) Bike collectives/cooperatives (Urbane, Bike Pirates, CBN, Cinecycle, Bike Union, Bike Business, Bikejoint, Cyclometer, et al.) (Final paper draft due) One Less Car (Chapter 7) Week 11: Bike Art/Bike Politics (29 March) Mobile Kitchen/Velocity Week 12: Bike Style/Bike Life (5 April) Bike Life-Style (design, courier, fixie, bmx, DIY) One Less Car (“DIY Bike Culture”; “Conclusion: ‘We Have Nothing to Lose but Our (bike) Chains’”) Marxism and Form (Graduate)
This course will depart from Fredric Jameson’s 1974 work Marxism and Form, in which Jameson develops a dialectical analysis of culture (with an emphasis on the problem of aesthetic form) by working through some of the key figures of Western Marxism—namely, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Bloch, Lukacs, and Sartre. We will begin with Jameson’s text and then carefully return to the work of those he examines (with equal care granted to the study of Marx and Hegel). The second half of the course will be dedicated to pushing this cultural theory into the present with an examination of such figures as Karatani Kojin, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Jacques Ranciere, Alain Badiou, Gayatri Spivak, Wang Hui, and Jameson’s latest work.