Ideology Critique
9/7
- Acts of Enjoyment, Thomas Rickert
9/14
- Rhetoric, Poetics, and Cultures, Jim Berlin
- "Three Countertheses; A Critical In(ter)vention into Composition Theories and Pedagogies," Victor Vitanza
9/21
- The Sublime Object of Ideology, Slavoj Zizek (excerpt)
- Negotiations, Gilles Deleuze (excerpt)
Hermeneutics and Post-hermeneutics
9/28
- Mailloux, Steve. “Making Comparisons: First Contact, Ethnocentrism, and Cross-Cultural Communication.” In Post-Nationalist American Studies.
- Davis, Diane. "Addressing Alterity: Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and the Nonappropriative Relation.". Philosophy and Rhetoric 38.3 (2005): 191-212.
- Muckelbauer, John. "Rhetoric, Asignification, and the Other: A Response to Diane Davis." Philosophy and Rhetoric 40.2 (2007): 238-247.
- Davis, Diane. "The Fifth Risk: A Response to John Muckelbauer's Response." Philosophy and Rhetoric 40.2 (2007): 248-256.
- "Darmok" Stark Trek: The Next Generation
10/5
- "The Trace of the Other," Emmanuel Levinas
- "Rhetoric and Hermeneutics," Hans-Georg Gadamer
10/12
- Premises, Hamacher (excerpt)
- "Cosmopolitanism without emancipation: A response to Jean Francois Lyotard," Richard Rorty
The Future of Invention
10/19
- The Future of Invention, John Muckelbauer
10/26
- Heuretics, Greg Ulmer
11/2
- Writing Workshop
- Draft of Conference Paper/Annotated Syllabus Due
After Critique: A Pedagogy
11/9
- Internet Invention, Preface, Introduction, Part 1
- Career Discourse Page, 2 exercises
- Phaedrus, Plato
11/16
- Internet Invention, Part 2
- Family Discourse Page, 5 exercises
- The Political Unconscious, Frederic Jameson (excerpt)
11/23
- Internet Invention, Part 3
- Entertainment Discourse Page, 2 exercises
- The Logic of Sense, Deleuze (Preface, 7th Series, and 11th Series)
11/30
- Internet Invention, Part 4
- Community Discourse Page, 3 exercises
- The Coming Community, Georgio Agamben (excerpt)
12/7
- Internet Invention, Part 5 and Conclusion
- Wide Emblem, 4 exercises
12/11
Second Submission of Conference Paper or Annotated Syllabus Due
