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Diane Davis - Lectures and Workshops

Course I: CYBER, VIRTUAL, AND HYPERREAL CULTURES (2 credit workshop)

Stressing the need for reassessment, these three conceptual starting places and the complicated differences among them will be explored as the grounds for 'other' than the so-called real.

Required Books and Reading Assignments:

Vitanza, Victor J. (ed). CyberReader. 2/e. Allyn & Bacon. Boston, August 1998, 528 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0205290868. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Virilio, Paul. Open Sky Verso Books, New York and London. (August 1997) 144 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 1859841813. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Course II: JACQUES DERRIDA (3 credits)

A tribute to Jacques Derrida, philosopher and professor of European Graduate School which presents and discusses deconstruction as well as the key issues of his work.

Required Readings:

Derrida, Jacques. On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness. Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 0415227127. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Derrida, Jacques. Of Hospitality. Stanford U, 2000. ISBN: 0804734062. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Course III: POSTHUMANIST THEORY (3 credits)

An introduction to the influential thinking of Avital Ronell with special consideration of the tropes of depropriation peppering her work.

Required Readings:

Ronell, Avital. Stupidity. Univ of Illinois Press. April 2001, Hardcover, ISBN: 0252026136. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Ronell, Avital. Finitude's Score : Essays for the End of the Millennium (Texts and Contexts, Vol 8). University of Nebraska Press. June 1998, 381 pages, Reprint edition, Paperback, ISBN: 0803289499. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Ronell, Avital. Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania. University of Nebraska Press. February 1993, 175 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0803289448. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Ronell, Avital. Dictations: On Haunted Writing. University of Nebraska Press. November 1993, 202 pages, Reprint edition, Paperback, ISBN: 0803289456. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.