GENEALOGIES OF POSTMODERNITY (I)
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GLOBALIZATION

French 4100.02 / Comp Lit 7140
Fall 2002 / Tuesday 6:10-9:00 p.m.


Did the world change in 1969 with the installation of the first node of ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet? Or was it Nixon's decision in 1971 to take the US off the gold standard? The first MTV broadcast in 1981? Whatever your favorite event, there's a pervasive sense that the world is different now than "before"; the cultural marker of our changed world is "postmodernism," while the political marker is "globalization" and the scientific marker is "complexity." Our year-long course will develop genealogies of postmodernity in the relations among culture, political economy and science.
 

FALL 2002:
Hardt and Negri, Empire; Frank, One Market Under God; Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity; Jameson, Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; Baudrillard, Simulations; Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus; Debord, Society of the Spectacle

Suggested Companion Course:
SPRING 2003: GENEALOGIES OF POSTMODERNITY II: SCIENCES OF COMPLEXITY
Hayles, How We Became Posthuman; DeLanda, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines; DeLanda, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History; Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women; Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

John Protevi <protevi@lsu.edu> <http://www.protevi.com/john>

NB: The Fall and Spring courses are independent and are taken separately for three credits each. You need not take both courses.

 

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