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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