Syllabus for Critical Theory A, Fall 2008

Critical Theory A: Fall 2008

Instructor: Dale Carrico, dalec@berkeley.edu

Provisional Schedule of Meetings

September 2
Administrative Introduction, Personal Introductions.

September 9
Course Introduction
Oscar Wilde, "Soul of Man Under Socialism"

September 16
Nietzsche: Ecce Homo, Preface
Why I Am So Wise
Why I Am So Clever [dominic]
Why I Am a Destiny (or Fatality)

September 23
Marx, from The German Ideology, "Idealism and Materialism" [warren]
Marx on Commodity Fetishism, from Capital

September 30
Sigmund Freud, on "The Psychotic Doctor Schreber" [Handout] [angie]

October 7
Naomi Klein, No Logo
One
Two [hailey]
Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle [hannah]

October 14
Roland Barthes, Mythologies [Purchase Book] [kristi]

October 21
Adorno & Horkheimer, "The Culture Industry" [shemoel]
Walter Benjamin, "Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility" [linze]

October 28
Carpenter (dir.), They Live In-Class Screening
Hand in Take Home Mid-Term Exam

November 4
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish [Purchase Book] [naomi]

November 11
William Burroughs, "Immortality" [bird] [danny]
Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto [robin]

November 18
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks [Purchase Book] [sydney]

November 25
Paul Gilroy, "Melancholia and Multiculturism" [misty]
Carol Adams, “Preface” & “On Beastliness and Solidarity" [Handout] [zabrina]

December 2
Judith Butler, Undoing Gender [Handout] [lizzie]

December 9
Donna Haraway, “A Manifesto for Cyborgs”
Hand in and/or Exhibit Take Home Final Exam