Critical Theory Course Descriptions

Term: Fall 2024Winter 2024Spring 2024Fall 2023Winter 2023Spring 2023Summer Session I 2023Summer Session II 2023Fall 2022Winter 2022Spring 2022Summer Session I 2022Summer Session II 2022Fall 2021Winter 2021Spring 2021Summer Session I 2021Summer Session II 2021Fall 2020Winter 2020Spring 2020Summer Session I 2020Summer Session II 2020Fall 2019Winter 2019Spring 2019Fall 2018Winter 2018Spring 2018Summer Session I 2018Summer Session II 2018Fall 2017Spring 2017Summer Session I 2017Summer Session II 2017

Fall Quarter

Dept	Course No and Title	Instructor
HUMAN (F24)	260A  CRIT THRY WORKSHOP	COLMENARES GON, D.
No detailed description available.
HUMAN (F24)	270  DOCUMENT URBAN ECOL	PITT, J.
This seminar focuses on Tokyo as a case study for ""urban ecology"" and examines various media forms that look to document the complex entanglements of Japan's metropolis. We will read works from infrastructure studies, architectural history, critical plant studies, and ecocriticism more broadly alongside works of modern and contemporary Japanese literature and cinema to question what kinds of emergent ecologies can be found among the rubble and ever-changing landscape of modern Tokyo.
HUMAN (F24)	270  THEORIZING PERIODS	EVERS, K.
Recent theories of resistance direct their critique, even scorn, at Hannah Arendt’s concept of politics, foremost her analysis totalitarianism and theory of total domination (The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951). Judith Butler criticized Arendt for defining politics “restrictively as an active stance” arguing that such a narrow definition excludes central aspects of the political from the discussion, in particular passive forms of resistance. Howard Caygill and Iris Därmann hold Arendt’s theory of total domination responsible for past disinterest and current misconceptions of resistance. Butler, Caygill and Därmann, among others, advocate for more inclusive approaches to resistance. Resistance studies should develop concepts and theories that take serious forms of resistance which avoid open confrontation, that make efforts to sustain life (Butler), take measures to preserve the capacity to resist (Caygill), that pay attention to „flat“ forms of resistance, as Därmann calls them. The course examines central theoretical, literary and historical writings (and films) on resistance-- Clausewitz, Nietzsche, Freud, Ghandi, Arendt, Fanon, Pasolini, Weiss, among them. These readings will be engaged in critical dialog with recent proposals to revise our definitions and practices of resistance (Caygill, Butler, Malm, Därmann, and others).
HUMAN (F24)	270  MULTIMODAL ANTHRO	VARZI, R.
No detailed description available.
HUMAN (F24)	270  TOPC EPISTEMOLOGY	COLIVA, A.
Will address topics such as 1. the rejection of individualistic epistemology; 2. The nature of common sense and common knowledge; 3. Testimony and trust; 4. Deep disagreements and the genealogical challenge to the good standing of our philosophical, moral and religious convictions; 5. ""I am a woman/man"" - how family resemblance, the first-personal authority of avowals and hinge epistemology can make sense of gender self-determination
HUMAN (F24)	398B  FOR LANG TEACH METH	STAFF
No detailed description available.
HUMAN (F24)	399  UNIVERSITY TEACHING	BEAUCHAMP, T.
No detailed description available.
HUMAN (F24)	399  UNIVERSITY TEACHING	TORRES, J.
No detailed description available.