Desiring Machines

Directed Reading: UBC: Deleuze and Guattari

Course Outline 2008

Posted by Change the Game on January 28, 2008

Readings:

Week 1(Jan. 14):

Freud—“Project for a Scientific Psychology”
Freud—“Beyond the Pleasure Principle”

Week 2 (Jan. 21):

Marx—Grundrisse, “Fragment on Machines”
Marx—Capital Vol. 1, Chapter 1 & 6 (Resultate)

Week 3 (Jan. 28):

Deleuze & Guattari—Anti-Oedipus
Tully—“Political Philosophy as Critical Activity”
Week 4 (Feb. 4):

Deleuze & Guattari—Anti-Oedipus

Week 5 (Feb. 11):

Deleuze & Guattari—Anti-Oedipus

Reading Week

Week 6 (Feb. 25):

Deleuze & Guattari—A Thousand Plateaus (Selections: “Introduction: Rhizome” & Chapters: 9/12/13

Week 7 (March 3):

Deleuze & Guattari—A Thousand Plateaus (Selections: “Introduction: Rhizome” & Chapters: 9/12/13

Week 8 (March 10) Tentative—possibly over 2 weeks:

Hardt & Negri—Empire
Virno—Grammar of the Multitude
Tronti—“Strategy of Refusal”
http://libcom.org/library/strategy-refusal-mario-tronti
Negri—Insurgencies

Week 10 (March 24):

Spivak—“Scattered Speculations on the Question of Value”
Guha—“Prose of Counter-Insurgency”

Week 11 (March 31):

Glissant, Poetics of Relation

Week 12 (April 7):
Review?

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