Schedule


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