Syllabus

[NOTE THAT THIS IS THE SYLLABUS FOR THE VERSION OF RHETORIC TWENTY WHICH I TAUGHT IN SUMMER 2009, AND IT IS DIFFERENT IN CERTAIN KEY RESPECTS FROM THE SYLLABUS FOR THE 2010 SUMMER COURSE -- DO NOT CONFUSE THIS ARCHIVAL SYLLABUS WITH THE CURRENT ONE -- d]

Rhet 20: The Rhetoric of Interpretation
Summer 2009

Instructor: Dale Carrico, dalec@berkeley.edu
Course Blog: http://rhettwenty.blogspot.com
7/7-8/13 T-W-R 3-5.30 130 Wheeler

Att/Part, 14%; Precis, 14%; Mid-Term, 36%; Final, 36%. (Rough Basis for Final Grade, subject to contingencies)

Provisional Schedule of Meetings

Week One
July 7 -- Administrative Introduction
July 8 -- Introductions
July 9 -- Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Week Two
July 14 -- Nietzsche: Ecce Homo, Preface
Why I Am So Wise
Why I Am So Clever
Why I Am a Destiny (or Fatality)
June 15 -- Marx, from The German Ideology, Idealism and Materialism
Marx on Commodity Fetishism from Capital
June 16 -- Sigmund Freud, on "The Psychotic Doctor Schreber" [reader]

Week Three
July 21 -- Adorno & Horkheimer, The Culture Industry
Walter Benjamin, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility
July 22 -- Roland Barthes, Mythologies [Purchase Book]
Kobena Mercer, On Mapplethorpe [reader]
July 23 -- Naomi Klein, No Logo One
Two
Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

Week Four
July 28 -- Carpenter (dir.), They Live In-Class Screening -- First Essay Due (4-5pp.)
July 29 -- Michel Foucault, What Is An Author? [reader] James Boyle, from Software, Shamans, and Spleens [reader]
Jacques Derrida, Ends of Man [reader]
July 30 -- William Burroughs, "Immortality" [reader] Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

Week Five
Aug 4 -- Hannah Arendt, Conquest of Space
CS Lewis Abolition of Man
Aug 5 -- Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks [Purchase Book]
Aug 6 -- Paul Gilroy, from Postcolonial Melancholia [reader]
Carol Adams, “Preface” & “On Beastliness and Solidarity" [reader]

Week Six
Aug 11 -- Donna Haraway, A Manifesto for Cyborgs
Aug 12 -- Bruno Latour, A Plea for Earthly Science
Aug 13 -- Conclusions -- Second Essay Due (5-6pp.)