Crisis and Critique Syllabus

Critical Theory A: Crisis and Critique, Summer 2008

Instructor: Dale Carrico, dalec@berkeley.edu

Provisional Schedule of Meetings

June 17
Administrative Introduction, Personal Introductions.

June 19
Course Introduction
Oscar Wilde, "Soul of Man Under Socialism"

June 24
Nietzsche: Ecce Homo, Preface
Why I Am So Wise
Why I Am So Clever
Why I Am a Destiny (or Fatality)

June 26
Marx, from The German Ideology, "Idealism and Materialism"
Marx on Commodity Fetishism, from Capital

July 1
Sigmund Freud, on "The Psychotic Doctor Schreber" [Handout]

July 3
Naomi Klein, No Logo
One
Two
Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

July 8
Roland Barthes, Mythologies [Purchase Book]

July 10
Adorno & Horkheimer, "The Culture Industry"
Walter Benjamin, "Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility"

July 15
Carpenter (dir.), They Live In-Class Screening
Hand in Take Home Mid-Term Exam

July 17
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish [Purchase Book]

July 22
William Burroughs, "Immortality"

July 24
Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

July 29
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks [Purchase Book]

July 31
Paul Gilroy, "Melancholia and Multiculturism"
Carol Adams, “Preface” & “On Beastliness and Solidarity" [Handout]

Aug 5
Judith Butler, Undoing Gender [Handout]

Aug 7
Donna Haraway, “A Manifesto for Cyborgs”
Hand in and/or Exhibit Take Home Final Exam