Class Schedule:
September 6, 8, 13, 15: Self and Information
Delillo, White Noise
Baudrillard, Simulations
September 20, 22, 27, 29: Self and Language
Bahktin, "The Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse" (from The Dialogic Imagination)
Frisch, Man in the Holocene
October 4, 6, 11, 13: Self and the Text
Eco, The Open Work
Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
October 20, 25, 27: Semester Projects
Preliminary Presentations (bibliographies, abstracts, discussion)
November 1, 3, 8, 10: Self and Technology
Haraway, Simians Cyborgs and Women
Kroker, Spasm
Stephenson, Snow Crash
November 15, 17, 22, 29: Self and the Body
Bataille, Visions of Excess
Burroughs, The Ticket that Exploded
December 1, 6, 8, 13: Semester Projects
Final Presentations (text, verbal abstract, discussion)
Final Exam: December 13, 9-12