Week - 1 |
Introduction: Traces of the body in philosophy
• Descartes – Meditations (2. Meditation)
• Platon – Phaidon
• Michel Serres –Five Senses of the Body (Introduction)
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Week - 2 |
Introduction: Traces of the body in philosophy
• Descartes – Meditations (2. Meditation)
• Platon – Phaidon
• Michel Serres –Five Senses of the Body (Introduction) |
Week - 3 |
Spinoza: Power of the Body
• Spinoza – Ethica, Chapter II and III
• Deleuze – Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, “What can a body do?"
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Week - 4 |
Spinoza: Power of the Body
• Spinoza – Ethica, Chapter II and III
• Deleuze – Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, “What can a body do?"
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Week - 5 |
Merleau-Ponty: Embodiment and The Nature of Perception
• Phenomenology of Perception, Introduction and “The Body"
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Week - 6 |
Merleau-Ponty: Embodiment and The Nature of Perception
• Phenomenology of Perception, Introduction and “The Body"
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Week - 7 |
Deleuze, Guattari and Artaud: Body without Organs
• A Thousand Plateaux, “Body without Organs"
• Artaud – Manifesto for a New Body
• Brian Massumi – Parables for the Virtual
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Week - 8 |
Judith Butler: Body, Gender, Repetition
• Gender Trouble, Chapter I
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Week - 9 |
Posthumanist Body and Technology
• Donna Haraway – Manifesto of the Syborg
• Rosi Braidotti – The Posthuman
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Week - 10 |
Student Presentations |
Week - 11 |
Student Presentations |
Week - 12 |
Student Presentations |
Week - 13 |
Student Presentations |
Week - 14 |
Student Presentations |