Rhetoric and Identification Schedule

Week 1
Aug 30
Introduction to course, syllabus, and artifact paper
Week 2
Sept 6
Artifact paper
Week 3
Sept 13
Burke, Rhetoric of Motives
Week 4
Sept 20
Burke, cont. Selections from Biesecker, Addressing Postmodernity
Week 5
Sept 27
Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I” + essays on the gaze
Week 6
Oct 4
Paper 2
Week 7
Oct 11
Freud, Group Psychology, The Ego and the Id, “Mourning and Melancholia,” “Psychical Treatment,” Freud/Einstein correspondence
Week 8
Oct 18
Borch-Jacobsen, The Emotional Tie; Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy, “The Unconscious is Structured Like an Affect”
Week 9
Oct 25
Ronell, Crack Wars
Week 10
Nov 1
Butler, The Psychic Life of Power
Week 11
Nov 8
Paper 3
Week 12
Nov 15
DDD outage: RSA Board Meeting in Chicago
Week 13
Nov 22
Thanksgiving
Week 14
Nov 29
Nancy, The Inoperative Community
Week 15
Dec 6
Derrida, Mnemosyne,” Ronell“On Friendship”
Week 16
Dec 11
Paper 4 due via email to me on Tuesday, Dec 11

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