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This is what the
reading schedule looks like so far. We may have to do a bit of shuffling
around because of the uncertainties of when the books become available,
or just because we decide in the course of things that it's a good idea
to spend more time on some things, less on others. All changes will be
reflected here online, and on the Noticeboard.
| Week |
Date |
Reading
* |
Notes
** |
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1
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4 March
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Introductory
|
ignorance
| time | link |
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2
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11 March
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Auerbach, Mimesis,
Epilogue and Chapter 1, "Oysseus’s Scar"
Serres, "Exact and Human"
[Musil,
Chapter 1 of The Man without Qualities]
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opening
moves | contingency
| from which nothing follows
|
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3
|
18 March
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Benjamin, "Theses
on the Philosophy of History"
Derrida,
"Epigraph" from Chapter 1 of Given Time
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revolutionary
chance | signal |
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4
|
25 March
|
Ryman, 253,
or Tube Theatre: A Novel for the Internet about London Underground
in Seven Cars and a Crash (www.ryman-novel.com)
|
not
yet |
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5
|
1 April
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Derrida, Given
Time, Chapters 1 and 2
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from
which nothing follows | boston
january 17 1950 | there is
| |
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6
|
8 April
|
Auerbach, Mimesis,
Chapters 2- 11 (focus on Chapter 3, "The Arrest of Peter Valvomeres,"
Chapter 4, "Sicharius and Chramnesindus," Chapter 8, "Farinata and
Cavalcante," and Chapter 10, "Madame du Chastel")
|
simply
knowledge | double inverted
commas | cut | |
| 7
|
15 April
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Serres, Genesis,
"A Short Tall Tale," "The Object of this Book," and Chapters 1-2
[Balzac,
"La
Belle Noiseuse"]
|
where
can we onserve the ichnography? | blue
pole scars |
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22
April |
mid-semester
break |
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8
|
29 April
|
Reading week:
no seminar
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|
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8
|
6 May
|
Derrida, Given
Time, Chapters 3 and 4
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miraculous
| the arc of the bow
| |
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10
|
13 May
|
Benjamin, "The
Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," "On Some
Motifs in Baudelaire,"and some online
extracts from The Arcades Project
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passage
work | philosophising through
history | the philosopher
as flaneur | the poet of the crowd
| |
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11
|
20 May
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Auerbach, Mimesis,
Chapters 12-20 (focus on Chapter 12, "L’Humaine Condition," Chapter
13, "The Weary Prince," Chapter 14, "The Enchanted Dulcinea," and
Chapter 20, "The Brown Stocking")
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with
a powerful and most merciful hand | the
modern break | |
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12
|
27 May
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Serres, Genesis,
Chapters 3-4 and "Dream"
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supplementarity
| 154/253 | musical
vision | |
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13
|
3 June
|
Reading week:
no seminar
|
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9-15 June
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Revision period
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16-28 June
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Examination
period: essays due 16 June
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* The larger font
in the Reading column indicates the main readings for the week. You will
be expected to have read these, and be ready to discuss them in the seminar.
Links here go mainly to the relevant notes in the Reading
Time site. The
smaller font indicates supplementary reading. or the primary texts referred
to in the main readings. You're not required to have read these, butt
they may be useful. Links from these are to online electronic versions.
** These are links
to notes in the Reading Time site. More will be added, a few weeks in
advance. Treat them as places to start from.
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