Archives and Feelings

Schedule

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August 11, 2013

¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 Readings not among the texts I have asked you to buy will be uploaded to our class Dropbox site. Email me if you’re having trouble accessing it.

¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 Unit 1: Contexts

¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 Week 1: Introductions; feeling cultural materialism
Raymond Williams: “Culture” from Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983 (1977). 87-93
Raymond Williams, “Structures of feeling” from Marxism and Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. 129-135.

¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 2 Week 2: Our labor
Antonio Gramsci, “Intellectuals and Education.” From An Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935. Ed. David Forgacs. New York: Schocken Books, 1988. 300-322
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, “The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses.” Social Text 79.2 (July, 2004): 101-115.
Roderick Ferguson, “Affirmative Actions of Power” from The Reorder of Things: the University and its Pedagogies of Minority Difference. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 1-18.

¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 1 Week 3: Feeling, living, teaching
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.
Chapters: “Introduction” and “Interlude, Pedagogic” (1-34); “Shame in the Cybernetic Fold” (93-122); “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay is About You” (123-152); “Pedagogy of Buddhism” (153-182).
Writing assignment 1 due.

¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 Unit 2: Archives

¶ 7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 0 Week 4: Power and memory
Walter Benjamin. “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. Ed. Hannah Arendt. Trans. Harry Zohn. 1940. New York: Schocken Books, 1968. 253-264
Jacques Derrida, excerpts from Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression. Trans. Eric Prenowitz. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 1-5; 83-101.
Diana Taylor, “Acts of Transfer.” The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003. 1-51.

¶ 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 Week 5: Haunting
Avery Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

¶ 9 Leave a comment on paragraph 9 2 Week 6: Queer archives, queer times
Anne Cvetkovich, “In the Archive of Lesbian Feelings” An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. 239-272.
Heather Love, “Introduction” to Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer Life. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 1-30.
Elizabeth Freeman, “Introduction: Queer and Not Now.” Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. 1-20.

¶ 10 Leave a comment on paragraph 10 0 Week 7: Forgetting, failing, and the silly archive
Judith Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2011.
Chapters: “Introduction: Low Theory” (1-26); “The Queer Art of Failure” (87-122); “Shadow Feminisms: Queer Negativity and Radical Passivity” (123-146); “Animating Failure: Ending, Fleeing, Surviving” (173-188)
Writing assignment 2 due.

¶ 11 Leave a comment on paragraph 11 0 Unit 3: Selves

¶ 12 Leave a comment on paragraph 12 0 Week 8: In search of lost history
Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. New York, NY: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2007.

¶ 13 Leave a comment on paragraph 13 0 Week 9: Journeys into psychology
Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “A Dialogue on Love.” Critical Inquiry Vol. 24, No. 2, Intimacy (Winter, 1998). 611-631

¶ 14 Leave a comment on paragraph 14 0 Week 10: Feeling academia
Anne Cvetkovich, Depression: A Public Feeling. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012.

¶ 15 Leave a comment on paragraph 15 0 Week 11: Scholarly embodiments
Ellen Samuels, “My Body, My Closet: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming Out Discourse.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2003) 9(1-2): 233-255
Mel Chen, “Toxic Animacies, Inanimate Affections.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 2011 Volume 17, Number 2-3: 265-286
Walter Mignolo and Michelle K., “Decolonial Aesthesis: From Singapore, To Cambridge, To Duke University”
If you have time, Social Text Periscope DSM-Crip, edited by Merri Lisa Johnson and Anna Mollow.
Writing assignment 3 due

¶ 16 Leave a comment on paragraph 16 0 Unit 4: Where do we go from here?

¶ 17 Leave a comment on paragraph 17 0 Week 12:
Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness.

¶ 18 Leave a comment on paragraph 18 1 Week 13:
Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”
Elizabeth Povinelli, “The Child in the Broom Closet” from Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism
Writing assignment 4 due.

¶ 19 Leave a comment on paragraph 19 0 Week 14: Thanksgiving break

¶ 20 Leave a comment on paragraph 20 0 Week 15: In class workshop for writing assignment 5.

¶ 21 Leave a comment on paragraph 21 0 Tuesday December 10: Final draft of writing assignment 5 due.