Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Wtr 2016 Diagrams (from Genealogy Workshop)


'Hourglass of Threads' (on archaeology and genealogy relation): 

 


'Foucault's Iceberg' (diagram based on Paul Veyne's "Foucault Revolutionizes History"):


The Error of the 'Categorization' (or 'Daguerreotypification') of Concepts (i.e., 'Biopower-Hunting'):


Styles of Reasoning and Concepts (and their relation), via the work of Arnold Davidson, with speculative comparison to Foucault, Deleuze, Latour, & Wittgenstein


Figures and Practices, via Dilts


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Monday, January 4, 2016

Wtr 2016 Reading Schedule

CGC this term will function as a 'Genealogy Workshop' in conjunction with Colin Koopman's PHIL 607 graduate seminar.  Our reading schedule is below.  We will post diagrams from the readings as we go, and hopefully also a methodological compendium drawn from these readings.  Ongoing transcriptions of the classes are also being kept (and a decision as to whether to post them or not will be made later).



Part I
Reading for Genealogy as Methodology
T 1/5
Foucault, Discipline and Punish (1975); (re)read in full before start of term


R 1/7
Foucault, The Punitive Society (72-73 CdF), pages 1-42, 65-84 (~60 pages)

T 1/12
Foucault, The Punitive Society (72-73 CdF), pages 89-135, 160-166 (~50 pages)

R 1/14
Foucault, The Punitive Society (72-73 CdF), pages 175-241 (~65 pages)

T 1/19
Foucault, Psychiatric Power (73-74 CdF), lectures 1, 3, and 12 (~75 pages)

R 1/21
Foucault, Abnormal (74-75 CdF), lectures 1, 2, and 11 (~75 pages)

Pt IIa
How to Do Inquiry: Researching and Composing Our Genealogies
                                & some more Genealogy in Foucault
T 1/26

-          First portion of class: project brainstorming discussion & exercises

-          Second portion of class: how to delimit a field of investigation, where to do inquiry, how to go into the field, how to cormorant a library, &c., &c.

R 1/28
Foucault, History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: The Will to Know (1976), I-IV.2 (~100 pgs)

-          Second portion of class: project discussion and further conceptualization

T 2/2   
Foucault, History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: The Will to Know, IV.3-V (~60 pages)
Foucault, “Society Must be Defended” (75-76 CdF), lecture 11 (~25 pages)

-          Second portion of class: framing projects and conceptualizing research plans

R 2/4

-          Project Presentations: initial research plans (problem, research site, timeline)
Pt IIa/b
The Work of Genealogical Inquiry: Our Genealogies
                                                         & Other Genealogies after Foucault
T 2/9
Arnold Davidson, The Emergence of Sexuality, chs. 1 & 2 (~65 pages)

R 2/11
Arnold Davidson, The Emergence of Sexuality, chs. 4, 7, & 8 (~60 pages)

-          Second portion of class: project sharing, collaboration, and updating

T 2/16
Ladelle McWhorter, Racism & Sexual Oppression, intro, ch. 1, ch. 3 (~110 pages)

R 2/18
Ladelle McWhorter, Racism & Sexual Oppression, chs. 4 & 5 (~100 pages)

-          Second portion of class: project sharing, collaboration, and updating

T 2/23
Andrew Dilts, Punishment and Inclusion, chs. 1-3 (~85 pages)

R 2/25
Andrew Dilts, Punishment and Inclusion, chs. 6-8 (~85 pages)

-          Second portion of class: project sharing, collaboration, and updating

T 3/1
Verena Erlenbusch, Terrorism: A Genealogy, draft ms., selected ch. (~50 pages)

R 3/4
NOTE: WE WILL NEED TO RESCHEDULE THIS SESSION
 
T 3/8
-          Project Presentations, First Session: finalized research presentations

R 3/10
-          Project Presentations, Second Session: finalized research presentations

Exam
-          Group Genealogy Papers: due by email at noon on Thur 3/17