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This year's module will be taught by 5 different staff members, allowing students to benefit from a variety of critical approaches and interests. The module Convenor is Daniel Katz, so please contact Dan if you have any immediate questions or problems (d.katz@warwick.ac.uk). Note: the information below is provisional, and subject to minor modification.
WEEK ONE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION and PSYCHOANALYSIS AND REVOLUTION (Daniel Katz)
Ian Parker and David Pavón-Cuéllar, Preface and Introduction, Psychoanalysis and Revolution, 1968 Press, 2021 (handout)
David Pavón-Cuéllar, "Metapsychology on the Battlefield," in Samo Tomsic and Andreja Zevnik, reds, Jacques Lacan: Between Psychoanalysis and Politics, Routledge, 2016 (available as e-text through library portal).
WEEK TWO: SEMIOCAPITALISM, LANGUAGE, DEBT (DK)
Franco "Bifo" Berardi, The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance, Semiotexte, 2012, pp. 7-70 (handout).
WEEK THREE: RETRO (Michael Gardiner)
Katy Shaw,Hauntology (2018), 1-23, 105-110, library
Mark Fisher, ‘the metaphysics of crackle’, 2011
François J. Bonnett,Après la mort /After Death (2021/ 2017), 11-22
Grafton Tanner,Foreverism (2024), 17-28, 63-76
WEEK FOUR: SHANZHAI (MG)
Byung-Chul Han,Shanzhai: Dekonstruktion auf Chinesisch (2011)/Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese (2017), 60-78
Anna Greenspan,China and the Wireless Undertow (2023), 116-149
Xin Wang, ‘Machine Envy’ (2025)
WEEK 5: THEOLOGY AND THEORY (I) (Emma Mason)
Hildegard of Bingen,Scivias(1142-1151), extracts (via email)
Foucault, ‘The Subject and Power’,Critical Inquiry, 8. 4 (1982), 777-795 [online in library]
Julia Kristeva, ‘Approaching Abjection’, inPowers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection(Columbia University Press, 1982/2024), 1-32 [online in library]
Michael Marder, ‘Prelude’, inGreen Mass: The Ecological Theology of St Hildegard of Bingen(Stanford University Press, 2021), 3-8 [online in library]
Further reading:
Clayton Crockett and Catherine Keller, eds.,Political Theology on Edge: Ruptures of Justice and Belief in the Anthropocene(Fordham University Press, 2022)
Ilia Delio, ‘Transhumanism and Transcendence’, in Beth Singler and Fraser Watts,The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Artificial Intelligence(Cambridge University Press, 2024)
6. THEOLOGY AND THEORY (II) (EM)
John 9, ‘Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind’ (NIV Bible) [online, Bible Gateway]
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, ‘The Spatiality of One’s Own Body and Motility’ and ‘The Body as Expression and Speech’, inPhenomenology of Perception(Routledge, 1945), part I, chapters 3 and 6 [online in library]
Emmanuel Levinas,‘Exteriority and the Face’,Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority(Springer, 1961), section III [online in library]
Further reading:
D. H. Lawrence, ‘The Blind Man’ (1922)
Jacques Derrida,Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-Portrait and Other Ruins(University of Chicago Press, 1993)
WEEK SEVEN: ECOCRITICAL THEORY (Emily McGiffin)
Annie Proulx, “Brokeback Mountain.”
J. Drew Lanham, “Birding While Black”
William Cronin, “The Trouble with Wilderness, or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature“
Jordan Abel,Un/inhabited(excerpts)
WEEK EIGHT: POSTCOLONIAL ECOCRITICISM (EMc)
Ayi Kwei Armah, (1978)The Healers.Per Ankh.
Recommended: Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin,“Introduction,” InPostcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment.Routledge, 2015.
WEEK NINE: QUEER THEORY: SEMINAL WORKS (Ross Forman)
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. “Queer and Now.”Tendencies. Duke UP, 1999. pp.1-22. [online in library]
Susan Stryker, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage,”When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader. Duke UP, 2004. p.134-150. [online in library]
Recommended:
Halberstam, Jack. "Making Trans Bodies,"Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability. University of California Press, 2018. pp. 22-44.
Rubin, Gayle. “Thinking Sex,”Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader. Duke UP, 2011. pp. 137-181.
WEEK 10: THE USES OF THE QUEER ARCHIVE (RF)
Taylor, Diana “We Have Always Been Queer,”GLQ, vol 22, no 2, 2006, pp.205–214. [online in library]
María Elena Martínez, “Archives, Bodies, and Imagination: The Case of Juana Aguilar and Queer Approaches to History, Sexuality, and Politics,”Radical History Review, vol. 120, 2014, pp.159-182 [online in library]
Recommended:
Martinez, Juliana. “Dressed Like a Man? Of Language, Bodies, and Monsters in the Trial of Enrique/Enriqueta Favez and Its Contemporary Accounts,”Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 26, no. 2, 2017, pp.188-206. [online in library]
Manion, Jen. “Introduction: Extraordinary Lives,”Female Husbands: A Trans History. pp. 1-14.
