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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