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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