Part
I: Rhetorical Wrestling Among the Ancients, the Moderns and the
Postmoderns
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Week
1 (Jan.
5-7)
Nietzsche: Gender, Rhetoric and Scientific Truth Part 1 [top] |
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Question: How does Nietzsche configure the relationships
between the ancients and the moderns in terms of science and subjectivity?
Required
Readings
- C. Picart, Resentment and "the Feminine"
in Nietzsche's Politico-Aesthetics (University Park, PA: Penn
State University Press, 1999) ISBN: 0-271-01889-5.
- The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and
an Appendix of Songs
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
• Paperback: 396 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.89 x
7.30 x 4.36
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA; 1st edition (October 1,
1974)
• ISBN: 0394719859
Possible
Film: Mindwalk
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Week
2 (Jan.
10-14 )
Nietzsche: Gender,
Rhetoric and Scientific Truth Part 2[top] |
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Question: Does Nietzsche’s view of rhetoric in relation
to science and truth change in his latter writings?
Required
Readings
- The Genealogy of Morals (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Friedrich Nietzsche, Horace Barnett Samuel
• Paperback: 118 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.34 x
8.24 x 5.20
• Publisher: Dover Publications; Dover Thri edition (April
1, 2003)
• ISBN: 0486426912
- Twilight
of the Idols or How to Philosophize With a Hammer (Oxford World's
Classics)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Duncan Large
• Paperback: 124 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.46 x
7.70 x 5.28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press; New Ed edition (May
1, 1998)
• ISBN: 0192831380
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Week
3 (Jan. 17-21)
Foucault, Rhetoric
and Power
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17: Martin Luther King Jr. Day- No Class
Key
Questions:
1. Where do Nietzsche’s and Foucault’s characterizations
of rhetoric and power converge and diverge?
2. What makes Nietzsche “modern” and Foucault “postmodern”?
Required
Readings
- The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human
Sciences
by Michel Foucault
• Paperback: 416 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.93 x
7.96 x 5.22
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA; Reissue edition (April 1,
1994)
• ISBN: 0679753354
Part II: The Rhetorics
of Modern Science and Colonialism
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Week
4 (Jan.
24-28)
The Bodies of
Woman and Nature
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Question: How has the rhetoric of science obscured its
raced, gendered, classed and colonializing dimensions?
Required
Readings
- Has Feminism Changed Science? by Londa Schiebinger
• Paperback: 272 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.71 x
9.26 x 6.16
• Publisher: Harvard University Press; (April 1, 2001)
• ISBN: 0674005449
- Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern
Science
by Londa Schiebinger
• Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x 8.97 x 5.94
• Publisher: Beacon Press; (October 1, 1995)
• ASIN: 080708901X
Possible Film: Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein
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Week
5 (Jan.
31-Feb. 4)
Case Studies
of Feminism and Science: Affinities between Simians, Cyborgs and Women
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Questions:
1. What actual case studies in science illustrate gender and race
bias?
2. Does the rhetoric of the “cyborg” enable a new type
of politic to emerge?
Required
Readings
- The Haraway Reader by Donna Haraway
• Paperback: 416 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.78 x
9.28 x 6.24
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (October 15, 2003)
• ISBN: 0415966892
- Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the
World of Modern Science by Donna Haraway
• Paperback: 486 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.44 x
9.96 x 6.99
• Publisher: Routledge; Reprint edition (September 1, 1990)
• ISBN: 0415902940
- Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention
of Nature
by Donna J. Haraway
• Paperback: 287 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.79 x
9.22 x 6.16
• Publisher: Routledge; (March 1, 1991)
• ISBN: 0415903874
Possible Film: The
Alien tetralogy
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Week
6 (Feb. 6-10)
The Rhetoric and Sociology of Science: Power, Virtuality and Reality
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Question: How does scientific rhetoric connect to the “real,”
according to Latour?
Required
Readings
- Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science
Studies
by Bruno Latour
• Paperback: 324 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.86 x
9.20 x 6.12
• Publisher: Harvard University Press; (June 1, 1999)
• ISBN: 067465336X
- Science
in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society
by Bruno Latour
• Paperback: 287 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.63 x
8.92 x 5.96
• Publisher: Harvard University Press; Reprint edition (October
1, 1988)
• ISBN: 0674792912
Part
III: The Rhetorics of The “Hard” and the “Soft”
Sciences
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Week
7 (Feb.
14-18)
Male and Female
Bodies Under Scrutiny: Epistemologies and Ontologies in Relation to
Gender and Sex[top]
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Question: How does rhetoric connect with the epistemologies
and ontologies of sexed and gendered bodies?
Required
Readings
- Revealing Male Bodies by Nancy Tuana, William
Cowling, Maurice Hamington, Greg Johnson, Terrance Macmullen
• Library Binding: 352 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.11
x 9.70 x 6.46
• Publisher: Indiana University Press; (December 1, 2001)
• ISBN: 025333991X
- Feminism
and Science: And Other Lasting Lessons I Learned in Catholic Schools
NancyTuana(Editor)
• Paperback, 272pp
• Publisher: Indiana University Press October1990
• ISBN: 0253205255
Possible Film: Terminators
1, 2 and 3
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Week
8 (Feb. 21-25)
The
"Sins" of Economics and the Transgendered Body[top]
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Questions:
1. What kind of "work" must the rhetoric of economics do in order
to authorize itself as a "science"?
2. What kind of "work" must Deirdre McCloskey's memoir enact in
order to maintain her authority as the former Donald McCloskey,
principal theorist on the rhetoric of economics?
Required
Readings
- The Rhetoric of Economics (Rhetoric of the Human
Sciences) by Deirdre N. McCloskey
• Paperback: 223 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.55 x
8.92 x 5.97
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press; 2nd edition
(May 1, 1998)
• ISBN: 0299158144
- Crossing: A Memoir
by Deirdre N. McCloskey
• Paperback: 266 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.65 x
8.93 x 5.98
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press; (September 1,
2000)
• ISBN: 0226556697
Part
IV: Rhetoric, the Body and the Mediated
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Week
9 (Feb. 28-Mar. 4)
The Rhetoric
of Phenomenology[top] |
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Questions:
1. What is unique to the rhetoric of phenomenology?
2. Of what value is phenomenological writing to understanding a
rhetoric of the embodied experience?
Required
Readings
- Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings by Thomas Baldwin,
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Paperback, 384pp
• Publisher: Routledge; February2004
• ISBN: 0415315875
- America by Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner
• Paperback: 200 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.46 x
7.98 x 7.94
• Publisher: Verso; Reprint edition (October 1, 1989)
• ISBN: 0860919781
Possible Film: Requiem
for a Dream
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Week
10 (Oct.
25-29)
Simulacra and Simulations: Real and Reel Bodies [top] |
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Question: What does Baudrillard’s framework have
to contribute to an understanding of the body as lived and culturally
encoded?
Required
Readings
- Passwords by Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner (Translator)
• Paperback: 120 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.34 x
7.64 x 7.68
• Publisher: Verso; (November 13, 2003)
• ISBN: 1859844634
- Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, in Theory : Histories of
Cultural Materialism)
by Jean Baudrillard, Sheila Faria Glaser
• Paperback: 176 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.45 x
9.04 x 5.32
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press; (December 1,
1994)
• ISBN: 0472065211
Possible Film: The
Matrix trilogy
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Week
11 (Nov. 1-5)
[top]
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due by the second meeting of the week; to be submitted at Williams
405 by 12 noon. Have the person at the desk sign for, date and time
the submission.
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Week
12 (Nov. 8-12)
Masculinities
and Femininities in Public and Private [top]
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10-14: Dr. Picart will be at the NCA Conference.
Nov.
11: Veteran's Day - No Class
Key
Question: How have the rhetorics of the public and the
private constructed different spaces for male and female bodies?
Required
Readings
- The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and
in Private
by Susan Bordo
• Paperback: 368 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.99 x
8.27 x 5.45
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux; (June 1, 2000)
• ISBN: 0374527326
- Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
by Susan Bordo
• Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.95 x 9.01 x 6.06
• Publisher: University of California Press; Reprint edition
(March 1, 1995)
• ISBN: 0520088832
Possible Film: Kill
Bill I and II
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Week
13 (Nov. 15-19)
Virtuality and the Lived Body [top] |
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15-19: Dr. Picart will be away for professional
engagements and talks on Frankenstein Films and Holocaust Films.
Key
Question: How and why is "the medium the message"?
Required
Readings
- The Medium is the Massage (REQUIRED) by Marshall
McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
• Paperback: 160 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.53 x
7.00 x 4.20
• Publisher: Gingko Press; (June 2001)
• ISBN: 1584230703
- The Cinematic Body (Theory Out of Bounds, Vol 2)
by Steven Shaviro
• Paperback: 276 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.72 x
10.04 x 7.05
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; (June 1, 1993)
• ISBN: 0816622949
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Week
14 (Nov. 22-26)
Incarnating
Moving Bodies and Images [top] |
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Nov.
25 & 26: Thanksgiving Day Break- No Class
Key
Question: What is unique to Sobchack's phenomenology of
the film experience?
Required
Readings
- Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image
Culture
by Vivian Sobchack, Univ of California Pr
• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: University of California Press; (November 1,
2004)
• ISBN: 0520241290
- The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience
by Vivian Sobchack
• Paperback: 354 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.87 x
9.25 x 6.10
• Publisher: Princeton University Press; (December 3, 1991)
• ISBN: 0691008744
Last Threaded Conversation
Possible Film: The
Passion of the Christ
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Week
15 (Nov. 29-Dec. 3)
History,
Rhetoric and Media[top]
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evaluations, self-evaluations on attendance and participation, and
class party on Dec. 3.
Final
Paper is due on the last day of class at the start of the class.
No late papers will be accepted.
Key
Question: How is the rhetoric of history generated through
cinema, television and the media in general?
Required
Readings
- The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television,
and the Modern Event (Afi Film Readers) by Vivian Sobchack
• Paperback: 288 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.58 x
9.18 x 6.04
• Publisher: Routledge; (March 1, 1996)
• ISBN: 0415910846
Possible Film: Schindler's
List and The Pianist
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Week
16 (Dec. 6-10)
Finals Week [top] |
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8-12: Dr. Picart may be away on a professional commitment.
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