Race, Robots, and the Inhuman
Class: M/W 4-530P
78 Barrows
Instructor: Margaret Rhee
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:15 - 11:15 p.m and upon apt.
@ Sudjarta Dai Hall - Fourth Floor
*sign up here: http://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/itqrt
Class website:
http://racerobotsinhuman.weebly.com/
"Race, Robots, and the Inhuman" addresses a key concern of our digital age, the human/machine analytic, through the lens of race, gender, and sexuality. We will investigate discourses of mechanization and racialization, focusing on how technology and racialization intertwine. Specifically, our course examines the representational processes of making and unmaking human, machine, and animal demarcations within the context of empire. Together, we will examine the human/machine analytic, a narrative that is transnational and historical in genealogy. Additionally, our syllabus includes creative works by writers and artists of color who remap the boundaries of the human, robot, and the inhuman.
Critical Thinking/Critical Making
We will also employ principles of digital constructionist learning—learning through creating—in our work together. Student writing will be encouraged through collaborative projects that utilize new media formats such as Wikipedia and Twitter. In addition to a final paper, you will express your ideas digitally and creatively in a final class project.
Required Readings (available at the UC Berkeley Bookstore)
Racial Formation in the United States by Michael Omi and Howard Winant (Routledge, 1994)
Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination by Minsoo Kang (Harvard University Press, 2011)
RUR: Rossum's Universal Robots by Karel Čapek (Penguin Classics, 2004)
The Black Automaton by Douglas Kearny (Fence Books, 2009)
How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975 -2002 by Joy Harjo (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004)
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect by Mel Chen (Duke University Press, 2012)
Class Reader* (available on B-Space at least two weeks before assigned date)
Book chapters
Iron Cages by Ronald Takaki
Unequal Freedom by Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Imperial Leather by Anne McClintok
Orientalism by Edward Said
Racial Fault lines by Tomas Almaguer
Race in the Birth of the Human Sciences by Lewis Gordon
Race in Cyberspace edited by Beth E. Kolko, Lisa Nakamura, and Gilbert B. Rodman
Technicolor: Race, Technology and Everyday Life edited by Alondra Nelson, Thuy Linh H. Tu, and Alicia Headlam Hines
The Inhuman by Jean Luc Lyotard
Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination by Shari Hundorf
Race in American Science Fiction by Isiah Lavender III
How We Became Posthuman by N. Katherine Hayles
Race After the Internet by Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White
Articles:
"Race and/as Technology" by Wendy Chun
"Alien/Asian: Imagining The Racialized Future" by Stephen Sohn
“Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument” by Sylvia Winter
Special Issue of American Studies Quarterly "Species/Race/Sex”
"The Cyborg Manifesto" by Donna Haraway
"Where are the Cyborgs in Cybernetics?" by Ronald Kline
People Are Knowledge by Achal Prabala (Media)
Why We Love Robots by Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain (Media)
Requirements:
Final Paper - 25 %
Participation - 15 %
Provocations - 21 %
Wikipedia entry - 5 %
Presentation - 15%
Creative Project - 15 %
Final Paper
For the course, you will be required to write one research paper (8 - 10 pages) due at the end of the semester. The research paper will be on the topic of your choice in connection to the texts, concepts, and ideas in the course. The abstract for your final paper will be due mid-semester.
Micro-essays: Provocations
For every thematic unit, you are required to write a micro-essay (1 page, single-spaced) that contains a central thesis and offers thematic problematics/provocations on the respective texts.
Discussion Leaders:
Specific days include student presentations. We ask you to share your provocation (or working provocation) and prepare a set of discussion questions and handout to guide our class.
Wikipedia:
We will participate as knowledge producers in our digital age. You may want to edit the entry on post-humanism or create a new entry on The Black Automaton, for example.
Blog:
We will have a class blog, which will require posting every week on Monday morning before
11:30 a.m. The blog posts includes your provocations and/or other kinds of materials/images/videos related to the course. We will discuss your blog posts in class as well.
Patron Poetry - A Morsel of Poetry
As a practice of engaging with ethnic literature, one student will provide a casual reading (memorized or not memorized) of an ethnic poem/new media poetics. For your morsel, please prepare to read the poem or describe the artwork for the class, provide biographical information of the poet, and a brief analysis in relation to the themes of the course or your personal experience of the artwork.
You will also provide a writing prompt based on your patron poet/artist and post on our class blog and share with the course on your presentation day for full credit. These short presentations are meant to be casual, intimate, and pleasurable. Any questions? Please let me know.
Daily Robot
Selected classes will begin with a daily robot presentation as well. For your robot presentations, you will provide a brief history of your robot. Please describe the robot, provide an image (please prepare an accessible powerpoint or bring your photo to share), and your thoughts on what is interesting about the robot. What does it tell you about the boundaries of human/machine/animal? Create a writing prompt inspired by your daily robot to share with the class. Please post on the blog for full credit.
Please open your folder to discover your patron poets and your robots. Who do you have? Share with the class. Your patron poets and robots will watch over you this spring semester.
Attendance
You are allotted two absences, one excused, one unexcused. Please note: more then three absences will affect your participation grade and your learning in the course. After three absences, I will ask you drop the course.
Participation:
Includes attendance, blog entries, class contributions, daily robot, morsel of poetry, and questions for guest speakers.
Unit One: Racial Formation and/as Technology
Wednesday, January 22
Introduction
Monday, January 27
"Race and/as Technology" by Wendy Chun*
Robot Stories, excerpt by Greg Pak
Why We Love Robots by Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain
Wednesday, January 29
Racial Formation Theory by Michael Omi and Howard Winant (Chapters 1 - 3)
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Monday, February 3
*Provocation I due
Racial Formation Theory by Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Wednesday, February 5
Special Topic: Thinking about Tech, Race, and Social Justice
Guest Speakers
Bill Hogan, DataCenter Research for Justice
Emily Encina, The Exploratoriam
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Lisa Nakamura biography and Race After the Internet introduction
Optional reading and weblink: http://www.hastac.org/content/reviews-race-after-internet
*Thursday, February 6
Extra Credit Event: History and Theory of New Media Lecture - Lisa Nakamura
"Indigenous Circuits"
Lecture | February 6 | 5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310 Banatao Auditorium
Unit Two: Labor, Race, and the Robot
Monday, February 10
Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America by Ronald Takaki*
Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor by Evelyn Nakano Glenn*
Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California by Tomas Almaguer*
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Wednesday, February 12th
*Provocation II due
"Alien/Asian: Imagining The Racialized Future" by Stephen Sohn*
Orientalism by Edward Said*
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Monday, February 17th
Academic Holiday - No class
Wednesday, February 19
RUR: Rossum's Universal Robots
Chat Bot Scripts Creative Writing Workshop
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Monday, February 24
Unit Three: Automaton
Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination by Minsoo Kang
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Wednesday, February 26
Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination by Minsoo Kang
Special skype visit: Minsoo Kang
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Monday, March 3
The Black Automaton by Douglas Kearny
Discussion Leaders: Ameryah H.
Morsel of Poetry: Joe Cha
Daily Robot: Lexi
Wednesday, March 5
The Black Automaton by Douglas Kearny *Provocation III Automaton due
Special Skype Visit: Douglas Kearney
Hack-a-thon final papers
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Monday, March 10
Unit Four: The Human and the Inhuman
Provocation Due: On the Human and the Inhuman
“Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument” by Sylvia Winter*
Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination by Shari Hundorf*
Morsel of Poetry Ameryah
Daily Robot Ameryah
Wednesday, March 12
No Class
*Final Creative Project Proposal Draft due workshop - send draft via email + meet with partners
*Final Paper Abstract Draft due workshop - send draft via email + meet with partners
Monday, March 17
The Inhuman by Jean Luc Lyotard*
Excerpt from Race in the Birth of the Human Sciences by Lewis Gordon*
Guest visit by Sarah Steirch on Feminism and Wikipedia
*Final Creative Project Proposal Draft due* hard copy in class
*Final Paper Abstract Draft due* hard copy in class
Morsel of Poetry: Ali
Daily Robot: Stephanie
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Wednesday, March 19
Unit Five: Knowledge Production
Provocation due: Knowledge Production
Watch "People Are Knowledge" by Achal Prabala
Spring Recess - March 24 - 28th
Monday, March 31
Unit Six: Race and Cyberspace/SF
Race in Cyberspace (2000) edited by Beth E. Kolko, Lisa Nakamura, and Gilbert B. Rodman*
Morsel of Poetry Lexi_
Daily Robot: shalin craig
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Wednesday, April 2
Provocation due: Race in SF + Cyberspace
Race in Science Fiction Isiah Lavendar II
Science Fiction - Special guest lecture by Joe Cha
Morsel of Poetry stephanie hoang
Daily Robot preyanka
Workshop Creative projects
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Monday, April 7
Unit Seven: Cyborgs and Cybernectics
The Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Harraway*
"How We Became Posthuman" by N. Kate Hayles (Introduction, Chapter 1)*
Luis presenting morsel and poet Javier O. Huerta "Meet Memo"
Provocation due: Cyborgs and Cybernectics
"Where are the Cyborgs in Cybernetics?" by Ronald Kline* (Optional)
Morsel of Poetry: preyanka
Daily Robot ______________________________
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Wednesday, April 9
Morsel of Poetry Decarlo
Robot- Decarlo
Reading: Short Story by Javier O. Huerta
Short response on Javier O. Huerta's short story and Meet Memo
Guest Visit by Javier O. Huerta
* revision to Final Creative Project Proposal Draft due*
Creative Projects Workshop
Daily Robot ______________________________
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Monday, April 14
"Becoming a Dragon" by micha cárdenas
micha cárdenas on Janelle Monae
http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=639
Special skype visit: micha cárdenas
Short response on micha cárdenas
Morsel of Poetry _____Ameryah_____________________
Daily Robot ______Ameryah________________________
Discussion Leaders:_________________Ali & Stephanie
Wednesday, April 16
Unit Eight: Animal/Human
Excerpts from Imperial Leather by Anne Mcclintock*
Introduction to Special Issue of American Studies Quarterly "Species/Race/Sex”*
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot Stephanie
Discussion Leaders: Decarlo
Monday, April 21
Provocation on Animal/Human Due*
Discussion leader: Luis
*bring revision to Final Paper Abstract Draft due *
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect by Mel Chen, Introduction
Harlan Weaver, “Becoming in Kind”: Race, Class, Gender, and Nation in Cultures of Dog Rescue and Dogfighting
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Wednesday, April 23
Unit Nine: How We Became Human
Provocation on How We Became Human due
How We Became Human by Joy Harjo (Preyanka)
Guest Visit: Harlan Weaver, Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society
Guest Visit: Micha Cardenas
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Monday, April 28
Provocation on How We Became Human due
How We Became Human by Joy Harjo
Wednesday, April 30
Celebration
Presentations of Critical Provocations and Exhibition of Creative Works
RRR Week
Monday, May 05 2014 --
Friday, May 09 2014
Optional Writing Workshop: Final Papers
*Final Papers due on May 19th
Class: M/W 4-530P
78 Barrows
Instructor: Margaret Rhee
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:15 - 11:15 p.m and upon apt.
@ Sudjarta Dai Hall - Fourth Floor
*sign up here: http://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/itqrt
Class website:
http://racerobotsinhuman.weebly.com/
"Race, Robots, and the Inhuman" addresses a key concern of our digital age, the human/machine analytic, through the lens of race, gender, and sexuality. We will investigate discourses of mechanization and racialization, focusing on how technology and racialization intertwine. Specifically, our course examines the representational processes of making and unmaking human, machine, and animal demarcations within the context of empire. Together, we will examine the human/machine analytic, a narrative that is transnational and historical in genealogy. Additionally, our syllabus includes creative works by writers and artists of color who remap the boundaries of the human, robot, and the inhuman.
Critical Thinking/Critical Making
We will also employ principles of digital constructionist learning—learning through creating—in our work together. Student writing will be encouraged through collaborative projects that utilize new media formats such as Wikipedia and Twitter. In addition to a final paper, you will express your ideas digitally and creatively in a final class project.
Required Readings (available at the UC Berkeley Bookstore)
Racial Formation in the United States by Michael Omi and Howard Winant (Routledge, 1994)
Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination by Minsoo Kang (Harvard University Press, 2011)
RUR: Rossum's Universal Robots by Karel Čapek (Penguin Classics, 2004)
The Black Automaton by Douglas Kearny (Fence Books, 2009)
How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975 -2002 by Joy Harjo (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004)
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect by Mel Chen (Duke University Press, 2012)
Class Reader* (available on B-Space at least two weeks before assigned date)
Book chapters
Iron Cages by Ronald Takaki
Unequal Freedom by Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Imperial Leather by Anne McClintok
Orientalism by Edward Said
Racial Fault lines by Tomas Almaguer
Race in the Birth of the Human Sciences by Lewis Gordon
Race in Cyberspace edited by Beth E. Kolko, Lisa Nakamura, and Gilbert B. Rodman
Technicolor: Race, Technology and Everyday Life edited by Alondra Nelson, Thuy Linh H. Tu, and Alicia Headlam Hines
The Inhuman by Jean Luc Lyotard
Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination by Shari Hundorf
Race in American Science Fiction by Isiah Lavender III
How We Became Posthuman by N. Katherine Hayles
Race After the Internet by Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White
Articles:
"Race and/as Technology" by Wendy Chun
"Alien/Asian: Imagining The Racialized Future" by Stephen Sohn
“Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument” by Sylvia Winter
Special Issue of American Studies Quarterly "Species/Race/Sex”
"The Cyborg Manifesto" by Donna Haraway
"Where are the Cyborgs in Cybernetics?" by Ronald Kline
People Are Knowledge by Achal Prabala (Media)
Why We Love Robots by Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain (Media)
Requirements:
Final Paper - 25 %
Participation - 15 %
Provocations - 21 %
Wikipedia entry - 5 %
Presentation - 15%
Creative Project - 15 %
Final Paper
For the course, you will be required to write one research paper (8 - 10 pages) due at the end of the semester. The research paper will be on the topic of your choice in connection to the texts, concepts, and ideas in the course. The abstract for your final paper will be due mid-semester.
Micro-essays: Provocations
For every thematic unit, you are required to write a micro-essay (1 page, single-spaced) that contains a central thesis and offers thematic problematics/provocations on the respective texts.
Discussion Leaders:
Specific days include student presentations. We ask you to share your provocation (or working provocation) and prepare a set of discussion questions and handout to guide our class.
Wikipedia:
We will participate as knowledge producers in our digital age. You may want to edit the entry on post-humanism or create a new entry on The Black Automaton, for example.
Blog:
We will have a class blog, which will require posting every week on Monday morning before
11:30 a.m. The blog posts includes your provocations and/or other kinds of materials/images/videos related to the course. We will discuss your blog posts in class as well.
Patron Poetry - A Morsel of Poetry
As a practice of engaging with ethnic literature, one student will provide a casual reading (memorized or not memorized) of an ethnic poem/new media poetics. For your morsel, please prepare to read the poem or describe the artwork for the class, provide biographical information of the poet, and a brief analysis in relation to the themes of the course or your personal experience of the artwork.
You will also provide a writing prompt based on your patron poet/artist and post on our class blog and share with the course on your presentation day for full credit. These short presentations are meant to be casual, intimate, and pleasurable. Any questions? Please let me know.
Daily Robot
Selected classes will begin with a daily robot presentation as well. For your robot presentations, you will provide a brief history of your robot. Please describe the robot, provide an image (please prepare an accessible powerpoint or bring your photo to share), and your thoughts on what is interesting about the robot. What does it tell you about the boundaries of human/machine/animal? Create a writing prompt inspired by your daily robot to share with the class. Please post on the blog for full credit.
Please open your folder to discover your patron poets and your robots. Who do you have? Share with the class. Your patron poets and robots will watch over you this spring semester.
Attendance
You are allotted two absences, one excused, one unexcused. Please note: more then three absences will affect your participation grade and your learning in the course. After three absences, I will ask you drop the course.
Participation:
Includes attendance, blog entries, class contributions, daily robot, morsel of poetry, and questions for guest speakers.
Unit One: Racial Formation and/as Technology
Wednesday, January 22
Introduction
Monday, January 27
"Race and/as Technology" by Wendy Chun*
Robot Stories, excerpt by Greg Pak
Why We Love Robots by Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain
Wednesday, January 29
Racial Formation Theory by Michael Omi and Howard Winant (Chapters 1 - 3)
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Monday, February 3
*Provocation I due
Racial Formation Theory by Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Wednesday, February 5
Special Topic: Thinking about Tech, Race, and Social Justice
Guest Speakers
Bill Hogan, DataCenter Research for Justice
Emily Encina, The Exploratoriam
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Lisa Nakamura biography and Race After the Internet introduction
Optional reading and weblink: http://www.hastac.org/content/reviews-race-after-internet
*Thursday, February 6
Extra Credit Event: History and Theory of New Media Lecture - Lisa Nakamura
"Indigenous Circuits"
Lecture | February 6 | 5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310 Banatao Auditorium
Unit Two: Labor, Race, and the Robot
Monday, February 10
Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America by Ronald Takaki*
Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor by Evelyn Nakano Glenn*
Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California by Tomas Almaguer*
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Wednesday, February 12th
*Provocation II due
"Alien/Asian: Imagining The Racialized Future" by Stephen Sohn*
Orientalism by Edward Said*
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Monday, February 17th
Academic Holiday - No class
Wednesday, February 19
RUR: Rossum's Universal Robots
Chat Bot Scripts Creative Writing Workshop
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Monday, February 24
Unit Three: Automaton
Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination by Minsoo Kang
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Wednesday, February 26
Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination by Minsoo Kang
Special skype visit: Minsoo Kang
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Monday, March 3
The Black Automaton by Douglas Kearny
Discussion Leaders: Ameryah H.
Morsel of Poetry: Joe Cha
Daily Robot: Lexi
Wednesday, March 5
The Black Automaton by Douglas Kearny *Provocation III Automaton due
Special Skype Visit: Douglas Kearney
Hack-a-thon final papers
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Monday, March 10
Unit Four: The Human and the Inhuman
Provocation Due: On the Human and the Inhuman
“Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument” by Sylvia Winter*
Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination by Shari Hundorf*
Morsel of Poetry Ameryah
Daily Robot Ameryah
Wednesday, March 12
No Class
*Final Creative Project Proposal Draft due workshop - send draft via email + meet with partners
*Final Paper Abstract Draft due workshop - send draft via email + meet with partners
Monday, March 17
The Inhuman by Jean Luc Lyotard*
Excerpt from Race in the Birth of the Human Sciences by Lewis Gordon*
Guest visit by Sarah Steirch on Feminism and Wikipedia
*Final Creative Project Proposal Draft due* hard copy in class
*Final Paper Abstract Draft due* hard copy in class
Morsel of Poetry: Ali
Daily Robot: Stephanie
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Wednesday, March 19
Unit Five: Knowledge Production
Provocation due: Knowledge Production
Watch "People Are Knowledge" by Achal Prabala
Spring Recess - March 24 - 28th
Monday, March 31
Unit Six: Race and Cyberspace/SF
Race in Cyberspace (2000) edited by Beth E. Kolko, Lisa Nakamura, and Gilbert B. Rodman*
Morsel of Poetry Lexi_
Daily Robot: shalin craig
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Wednesday, April 2
Provocation due: Race in SF + Cyberspace
Race in Science Fiction Isiah Lavendar II
Science Fiction - Special guest lecture by Joe Cha
Morsel of Poetry stephanie hoang
Daily Robot preyanka
Workshop Creative projects
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Monday, April 7
Unit Seven: Cyborgs and Cybernectics
The Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Harraway*
"How We Became Posthuman" by N. Kate Hayles (Introduction, Chapter 1)*
Luis presenting morsel and poet Javier O. Huerta "Meet Memo"
Provocation due: Cyborgs and Cybernectics
"Where are the Cyborgs in Cybernetics?" by Ronald Kline* (Optional)
Morsel of Poetry: preyanka
Daily Robot ______________________________
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Wednesday, April 9
Morsel of Poetry Decarlo
Robot- Decarlo
Reading: Short Story by Javier O. Huerta
Short response on Javier O. Huerta's short story and Meet Memo
Guest Visit by Javier O. Huerta
* revision to Final Creative Project Proposal Draft due*
Creative Projects Workshop
Daily Robot ______________________________
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Monday, April 14
"Becoming a Dragon" by micha cárdenas
micha cárdenas on Janelle Monae
http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=639
Special skype visit: micha cárdenas
Short response on micha cárdenas
Morsel of Poetry _____Ameryah_____________________
Daily Robot ______Ameryah________________________
Discussion Leaders:_________________Ali & Stephanie
Wednesday, April 16
Unit Eight: Animal/Human
Excerpts from Imperial Leather by Anne Mcclintock*
Introduction to Special Issue of American Studies Quarterly "Species/Race/Sex”*
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot Stephanie
Discussion Leaders: Decarlo
Monday, April 21
Provocation on Animal/Human Due*
Discussion leader: Luis
*bring revision to Final Paper Abstract Draft due *
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect by Mel Chen, Introduction
Harlan Weaver, “Becoming in Kind”: Race, Class, Gender, and Nation in Cultures of Dog Rescue and Dogfighting
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Wednesday, April 23
Unit Nine: How We Became Human
Provocation on How We Became Human due
How We Became Human by Joy Harjo (Preyanka)
Guest Visit: Harlan Weaver, Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society
Guest Visit: Micha Cardenas
Morsel of Poetry __________________________
Daily Robot ______________________________
Discussion Leaders:______________________________
Monday, April 28
Provocation on How We Became Human due
How We Became Human by Joy Harjo
Wednesday, April 30
Celebration
Presentations of Critical Provocations and Exhibition of Creative Works
RRR Week
Monday, May 05 2014 --
Friday, May 09 2014
Optional Writing Workshop: Final Papers
*Final Papers due on May 19th