GENEALOGIES OF POSTMODERNITY (I)
 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GLOBALIZATION
               
French 4100.2 / Comp Lit 7140
               
Fall 2002 / Tuesday 6:10-9:00 p.m. 
SCHEDULE
           Aug 27:     
Course Introduction
           Sept 3:      
Empire, Preface, Parts 1 and 4, and “Counter-Empire” (205-218)
           Sept 10:    
Empire, Part 2
           Sept 17:    
Empire, Part 3
           Sept 24:    
The Condition of Postmodernity, “The Argument,” Preface, and Parts
I and II
           Oct 1:       
The Condition of Postmodernity, Parts III and IV
           Oct 8:       
One Market Under God, Preface and Chapters 1-5
           Oct 15:     
One Market Under God, Chapters 6-10 and Afterword
           Oct 22:     
Simulations, all
           Oct 29:     
Anti-Oedipus, Part 1
           Nov 5:      
Anti-Oedipus, Part 2
           Nov 12:    
Anti-Oedipus, Part 3
           Nov 19:    
Anti-Oedipus, Part 4
           Nov 26:    
The Society of the Spectacle, Chapters I-IV
           Dec 3:       
The Society of the Spectacle, Chapters V-IX
 BOOKS
         Michael Hardt and Antonio
Negri, Empire, Harvard UP, 2000, 0 6740067 12
         Thomas Frank, One Market
Under God, Anchor Books, 2001, 0 385 49504 8
         David Harvey, The Condition
of Postmodernity, Blackwell, 1990, 0 631 16294 1
         Jean Baudrillard, Simulations,
Semiotext(e), 1983, 0 936756 02 0
         Gilles Deleuze and Félix
Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, U Minnesota Press, 1983, 0 8166 1225 0
         Guy Debord, The Society
of the Spectacle, Zone Books, 1994, 0 942299 79 5
 ASSIGNMENTS
         For all students: (3) five
page papers:
            
Empire (Oct 1)
            
Condition OR  
One Market(Oct 29)
            
Anti-Oedipus (Dec 3)
         For Undergraduate students:
(1) ten page term paper (Dec 13)
         For Graduate students: (1)
twenty page term paper (Dec 13)
 INSTRUCTOR CONTACT INFORMATION
         John Protevi, Department
of French Studies
         Office: 109B Prescott /
Phone: 578-6664 / Office hours: Tuesday 4:30-6:00 p.m.
         Website: http://www.protevi.com/john 
Email: protevi@lsu.edu
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