Reading Post Leaders

Weekly Reading Post Leaders

Leaders are responsible for writing the opening post for each reading, to which others will respond. Leader’s posts are due on the wiki by the Saturday before the class in which we discuss the text; substantial responses due by Tuesday at 11am. Dates below indicate the class period we’ll discuss the texts.

Post 1, Feb 2: Heidegger “Building, Dwelling, Thinking” or Levinas, selections from Existence and Existents

  • NAME: Jake Cowan
  • Name: Matt Breece

Post 2, Feb 9: Bennett, selections from Vibrant Matter or Barad, “Posthuman Performativity”

  • NAME: Jazmine Wells
  • Name: Amy Tuttle
  • Name: Rhiannon Goad

Post 3, Feb 16, Rickert “Parmenides” or selection from Ambient Rhetoric, or Brown “The Machine That Therefore I am”

  • Name: Jake Cowan
  • Name: Matt Breece
  • Name: Amy Tuttle

Post 4, March 1: Derrida “The Animal That Therefore I Am”

  • Name: Tyler Welsh
  • Name: Rheinhard Mueller

Post 5, March8: Wolfe “Flesh and Finitude” or Michael Marder “What is Plant Thinking?”

  • Name: Jazmine Wells
  • Name: William Brewer

Post 6, March 22: Davis “Autozoography” or Wolfe “Second Finitude”

  • Name: Ansley Colclogh
  • Name: Sarah Riddick

Post 7, April 5: Levinas, selection from Totality and Infinity and Derrida “Epoche and Faith”

  • Name: Becca Liu
  • Name: Sarah Welsh

Post 8, April 12:  Mailloux, “Notes on Prayerful,” Bernard-Donals, “Divine Cruelty,” Elissa Marder, “Pandora’s Fireworks”

  • Name: ER Emison
  • Name: Ansley Colclough

Post 9, April 19: Derrida, selections from Specters of Marx

  • Name: Tyler Welsh
  • Name: Reinhard Mueller

Post 10, April 26: Ballif “Historigraphy as Hauntology” or “Regarding the Dead,” or Gun “Canned Laughter”

  • Name: Rhiannon Goad
  • Name: Becca Liu
  • Name: ER Emison

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