Becoming Other:

Becoming Other:New Approaches at the Intersection of History, Science, and Media

Orit HalpernAssistant ProfessorHistorical StudiesThe New School 80 Fifth AveRoom 507New York, NY 10011t: 212.229.5376x2990e:HalpernO@newschool.eduOffice Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays by appointment.

Required texts:Michael Taussig, Mimesis and Alterity: A Strange History of the Senses, Routledge, 1992.

Friedrich Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, Stanford University Press: 1999

Paul Virilio, War and Cinema, Verso: 1997

Jonathan Crary, Techniques of the Observer, October, 1992.

Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, Harvard University Press, 1997

Bruno Latour, The Pasteurization of France, Harvard University Press, 2005

ReaderAvailable at the Copy store on 13th street, East Side Copy

Course Requirements:

One 20 page research paper at the end of the semester on a topic of your choosing, and leading one classroom discussion.

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IntroductionRoger Caillois, Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia (1935), [on-line]Franz Kafka Report to the Academy and The Metamorphosis [in reader]

Antonin Artaud, excerpts from The Theater and Its Double [in reader]

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Martin Heidegger, The Age of the World Picture and The Question Concerning Technology, in The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, trans. William Lovitt, pp.3-35, pp.115-154. [reader]

Walter Benjamin, On Some Motifs in Baudelaire, from Illuminations, pp.155-200. [reader]

Walter Benjamin, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, from Illuminations, pp.250-262, pp.89-139. [reader]

SECTION ONE: Archeology, Genealogy, and Perception

2/5: Sensation

Michael Taussig, Mimesis and Alterity: A particular History of the Senses,,Preface, Section One [New York: Routledge, 1993]

2/14: Perception

Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy, ix-60, pp.171-174. [in reader]Mary Ann Doane, The Emergence of Cinematic Time, [Harvard University Press, 2003], excerpts pp.ix-68, 115-135,[reader]Mary Ann Doane, Temporality, Storage, Legibility:Freud, Marey and the Cinema, Critical Inquiry , vol. 22 Winter 1996. [On-line]

Recommended/Optional:Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera [film]

Horst Bredekamp, The Lure of Antiquity and the Evolution of Nature, Art, and Antiquity, Introduction, Chapter 5

Sigfired Zilinski, Deep Time:Towards and Archeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means [Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006], Introduction, Conclusion

Dziga Vertov, Kino-eye,preface, [handout]Marinetti, Futurist Manifestos [handout]

2/21: Perception (cont.)Kittler Film, Gramophone, Typewriter, Preface, pp.1-135.

SupplementaryFredrich Kittler, excerpts from Discourse Networks 1800/1900 [in reader]

2/28: Perception (cont.)Fredrich Kittler, Gramophone, Typewriter, Film (cont.)

ASSIGNMENT: Hand in a preliminary proposal for final research project.

3/6: Subjects

Michel Foucault Nietzsche, Genealogy, History, [on-line]Jonathan Crary, The Techniques of the Observer, [Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990]

Supplementary:John Rajchmann, Foucaults Art of Seeing, October [on-line]

3/13Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Epistemologies of the Eye, , pp. 9-53[in reader]

Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, The Image of ObjectivityRepresentations, No. 40, Special Issue: Seeing Science (Autumn, 1992), pp. 81-128 [on-line]

Donna Haraway, Primate Visions, [New York: Routledge, 1990] [Introduction, Teddy Bear Patriarchy, Conclusion, pp.1-18,26-58,368-382. [in reader]

Supplementary:John Rajchmann, Foucaults Art of Seeing. October 1988. Vol.44;p.pp. 88-117Deleuze, Negotiations, Letter to a Harsh Critic, On Anti-Oedipus, On Thousand Plateaus [handout]

3/20: SPRING BREAK

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Gilles Deleuze, Postscript to the Society of Control [on-line]Gilles Deleuze, Foucault, pp.45-132[ [in reader]Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari, Thousand Plateaus, Introduction, Chapter 2:1914, Chapter 6:Bodies without Organs, Chapter 12:The War Machine [Reader]

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Bruno Latour, Drawing Things Together, [hand-out]Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, [Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003]

4/10: Networks Bruno Latour, The pasteurization of France, [Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005]

4/17: NETWORKS (cont.)

Michael Hardt, Negri, excerpts from Empire, [Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000] pp xi-66, pp.353-413.{in reader]

Thomas Lamarre, Bacterial Culture and Linguistic Colonies, in positions 6:3, 1998. [on-line]

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Rheinhold Martin, excerpts from The Organizational Complex, [Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003]

Eyal Weizmann, Strategic Points, Flexible Lines, Tense Surfaces, Political Volumes: Ariel Sharon and the Geometry of Occupation The Philosophical Forum, Vol. XXXV, No. 2, Summer 2004. [On-line]

Weizman, Seeing Through Walls: The Split Sovereign of the One-Way Mirror, Grey Room, 24, Summer 2006. [On-line]

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James Siegel, Introduction, Chapter One, and 9, and Epilogue from Fetish, Recognition, Revolution, [Princetion: Princeton University Press, 1997] pp.2-53, 231-254.

Ann Stoler, The Pulse of The Archive unpublished manuscript [on-line]

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5/13: In class screening

Chris Marker, Sans Soleil (film)

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