Spr 2016 Reading Schedule

In the Spring quarter CGC will continue this year's inquiries into genealogical methods by way of surveying some adjacent methodological terrain charted by some of Foucault's interlocutors, contemporaries, and near-contemporaries.  We will read Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour, and Paul Veyne -- beginning in each instance with one of their essays on Foucault and then turning to some of their own contributions to historiography, methodology, and critical inquiry.

A draft schedule is below.  Meetings will be Fridays at 4:00.  During week 1 we will assign responsibilities for collecting, scanning, and distributing each week's readings.

G. Deleuze
Wk 1) "What is a Dispositif?" (1989) and "Michel Foucault's Main Concepts" (1984), both from the collection of Deleuze essays Two Regimes of Madness
 
Wk 2) Selections from A Thousand Plateaus - Introduction “Rhizome;” Ch.3 “10,000 BC: The Geology of Morals” (1980)
 
Wk 3) Selections from Anti-Oedipus - Homo historia, Universal History, History of Contingencies (1971)
 
Wk 4) Selections from Logic of Sense - "First Series of Paradoxes of Pure Becoming;" "Second Series of Paradoxes of Surface Effects;" "Ninth Series of the Problematic;" "Fourteenth Series of Double Causality" (1968)

B. Latour
Wk 5) "The Powers of Association" (1986?) 

Wk 6)  “On Technical Mediation – Philosophy, Sociology, Genealogy” in Common Knowledge 3, no.2 (1994): 29-64.

Wk 7 - Fri May 13)  no meeting -- attend Foucault session at Trans conference

Wk 8) “The Historicity of Things: Where Were Microbes before Pasteur?” – from Pandora’s Hope (1999)


Wk 9) “Irreductions” from The Pasteurization of France (1984; 1988); (also recommended only: selections from Reassembling the Social (2005) – “Introduction to Part 1;” “First Source of Uncertainty;” “Second Source of Uncertainty;” “Third Source of Uncertainty;” “Introduction to Part 2” [refs to Foucault on 'society'])

P. Veyne
Wk 10 9) "Foucault Revolutionizes History"; (also recommended by Veyne from Writing History are the following: "History Does not Exist", "Pure Curiosity about the Specific", or "History, Sociology, and Complete History")