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Course Schedule
How To Read This Schedule: All readings will be completed before class on the date on which they are assigned. Readings that are not links are in the Content -> Readings folder on eCampus.
Anything in bold is work to be completed before class and brought with you on the day listed. Paper due dates, also in bold, indicate that the completed manuscript of your paper must be in the correct dropbox on eCampus before class starts on the day indicated.
Week 1 Introduction
Fri 09/02
- Course Overview
- Boethius, “An Overview of the Structure of Rhetoric”
- John Poulakos, “Toward a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric”
- John Muckelbauer, “Returns of the Question”
Week 2 What Is the Avant-Garde?
Fri 09/09
- Peter Bürger, Theory Of the Avant-Garde
Week 3 Modernist Avant-Gardes
Fri 09/16
- Mina Loy, Everything on Mina Loy Online
- F.T. Marinetti, “The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism”
- F.T. Marinetti, “Second Futurist Proclamation”
- F.T. Marinetti, “The Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature”
- Wyndham Lewis, “Blast Manifesto”
- Tristin Tzara, “Seven Dada Manifestos”
Week 4 Antecedents: Derrida
Fri 09/23
- Derrida, Plato’s Pharmacy
- Read Phaedrus if you haven’t before (that free translation isn’t great; this non-free one is the best)
- Read pp. 1-8 in Derrida, Glas
Week 5 Antecedents: Cixous
Fri 09/30
- Hélène Cixous, “The Laugh of the Medusa”
- Hélène Cixous, “Sorties: Ways Out/Attacks/Forays”
- Lynn Worsham, “Writing Against Writing: The Predicament of Écriture Féminine in Composition Studies”
Week 6 Antecedents: Burroughs
Fri 10/07
- William S. Burroughs, “The Cut-Up Method”
- William S. Burroughs, “The Electronic Revolution”
- William S. Burroughs, “Towers Open Fire”
- William S. Burroughs, Selections from The Adding Machine
- Various, “Calling All Reactive Agents: Cutting Up Burroughs”
Week 7 Vitanza
Fri 10/14
- Victor Vitanza, Negation, Subjectivity, and The History of Rhetoric
Week 8 Ulmer I
Fri 10/21
- Greg L. Ulmer, Heuretics
- Optional Reading: Thomas Rickert, “Toward the Chōra: Kristeva, Derrida, and Ulmer on Emplaced Invention “
Week 9 Ulmer II
Fri 10/28
- Greg L. Ulmer, “The Object of Post-criticism”
- Greg L. Ulmer, “Handbook for a Theory Hobby”
- Greg L. Ulmer, “The Learning Screen”
- Sarah J. Arroyo, “Playing to the Tune of Electracy”
- Marc Santos et al., “Our Electrate Stories”
Week 10 Sirc
Fri 11/04
- Geoffrey Sirc, English Composition as a Happening
- Geoffrey Sirc, “Box Logic”
- Allan Kaprow, “How To Make a Happening”
Week 11 Film Composition
Fri 11/11
- bonnie lenore kyburz, From Cruel Auterism
- Daniel Anderson, “Crane Calls”
- Daniel Anderson, “Watch the Buzzing”
- Brown et al. “Master Hands, A Video Mashup Round Table”
- bonnie lenore kyburz, “Status Update”
- Jody Shipka, “49 Years/849 Miles”
- Victor Vitanza et al. “From Gallery to Webtext”
Week 12 Shipka
Fri 11/18
- Jody Shipka, Toward a Composition Made Whole
- Paper Proposal Due
Week 13 Thanksgiving Break
Fri 11/25
No Class
Thanksgiving Break
Week 14 Flusser
Fri 12/02
- Vilém Flusser, Does Writing Have a Future?
Week 15 In-Class Presentations
Mon 12/05
- In-Class Presentations
- 5-10 Talk About Your Paper (Maybe Read the Introduction?)
- Come Prepared To Offer Feedback
- Final Paper Due 12/10