COURSE SCHEDULE
April 2
1. Introduction: overview of the course
April 9
2. The Posthuman Future
- Francis Fukuyama, Our Posthuman Future. Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
- Henryk Skolimowski, “Problems of rationality in biology,” in Studies in the Philosophy of Biology, ed. by Francisco Jose Ayala and Theodosius Dobzhansky . Berkeley : University of California Press, 1974:
205-224.
- Jürgen Habermas, The Future of Human Nature , trans. by Hella Beister and William Rehg. Polity Press, 2003.
- Gísli Pálsson, “Human-Environmental Relations: Orientalism, Paternalism and Communalism,” in Nature and Society, ed. by Philippe Descola and Gisli Pálsson. London and New York: Routledge, 1996: 65-81.
April 16
3. Transhumanism (Nick Bostrom)
- Nick Bostrom, “A History of Transhumanist Thought.” Journal of Evolution and Technology , vol. 14, no. 1, 2005: 1-25.
- Nick Bostrom, „Transhumanist Values.” Review of Contemporary Philosophy , vol. 4, May 2005: 87-101.
- Nick Bostrom, “In Defence of Posthuman Dignity." Bioethics, vol. 19, no. 3, 2005: 202-214.
- Nicholas Agar, “Whereto Transhumanism? The Literature Reaches a Critical Mass.” Hastings Center Report, vol. 3, no. 3, 2007: 12-17.
- Francis Fukuyama, "Transhumanism." Foreign Policy, no. 144, September-October, 2004: 42-43.
April 23
4. From Society to Collective of the Human and Non-Human (Bruno Latour)
- Bruno Latour, “When Things Strike Back: A Possible Contribution of ‘Science Studies' to the Social Sciences.” The British Journal of Sociology , vol. 51, no. 1, January/March 2000:107-123.
- Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory . Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005 (“Introduction”, “Third Source of Uncertainty: Objects too Have Agency” and „Conclusion”: 1-17; 63-86; 247-262).
- Bruno Latour, „Do Scientific Objects Have a History? Pasteur and Whitehead in a Bath of Lactic Acid”. Common Knowledge, vol. 5, no. 1, 1993: 76-91.
- Bruno Latour, “A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans. Following Daedalus's Labirynth”, in his, Pandora's Hope. Essays on the Reality of Science Studies . Cambridge Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 1999: 174-215.
- Bruno Latour, “How to Bring the Collective Together”, in his, Politics of Nature. How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004: 53-90.
April 30
5. Technology, Science and the Social (Andrew Pickering)
- Andrew Pickering, “ After Representation: Science Studies in the Performative Idiom”. PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , vol. 2 (Symposia and Invited Papers), 1994: 413-419.
- Andrew Pickering, “The Mangle of Practice: Agency and Emergence in the Sociology of Science.” The American Journal of Sociology , vol. 99, no. 3, November 1993: 559-589.
- Mark Peter Jones, “Posthuman Agency: Between Theoretical Traditions”. Sociological Theory, vol. 14. no. 3, November 1996: 290-309.
- Daniel Breslau, “Sociology After Humanism: A Lesson from Contemporary Science Studies”. Sociological Theory , vol. 18, no. 2, 2000: 289-307 [and discussion: Andrew Pickering, “The Objects of Sociology: A Response to Breslau's ‘Sociology After Humanism,” ibidem: 308-316; Daniel Breslau, “Forbid the Forbidding: A Rejoinder to Andrew Pickiering,” ibidem: 317-319]
- Andrew Pickering, “Decentering Sociology: Synthetic Dyes and Social Theory.” Perspectives on Science, vol. 13, no. 3, 2005: 352-405.
May 7
6. Zoe as Non-Human Life (Rosi Braidotti)
- Rosi Braidotti, Transpositions. On Nomadic Ethics. Cambridge: Polity Press 2006 (especially: 32-143).
- Rosi Braidotti, “Met(r)amorphoses: becoming Woman/Animal/Insect,” in her, Metamorphoses. Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002: 117-171.
May 14
7. Non-Human Significant Otherness (Donna Haraway)
- Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto. Dogs, People and Significan Otherness. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003.
- Donna J. Haraway, "When Species Meet. Introduction", in her, When Species Meet. Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press, 2008: 3-42.
- Donna Haraway, "From Cyborgs to Companion Species: Dogs, People, and Technoculture" (Avenali Lecture Fall 2003, UC Berkeley, September 16, 2003 - video)
- Donna Haraway, "The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inapropriete/d Others", in The Haraway Reader. New York and London: Routledge, 2004: 63-124.
- Rosi Braidottti, “Posthuman, All Too Human. Toward a New Process Ontology.” Theory, Culture and Society , vol. 23, no. 7-8, 2006: 197-208.
May 21
8. Humanist Ethics and the Animal (Emmanuel Levinas)
- Emmanuel Levinas, “The Name of a Dog, or Natural Rights” and Peter Atterton, “Ethical Cyncism”, in Animail Philosophy. Essential Readings in Continental Thought , ed. by Matthew Calarco and Peter Atterton. London: continuum, 2006: 47-61.
- John Llewelyn, “Am I Obsessed by Bobby? (Humanism of the Other Animal),” in: Re-Reading Levinas, ed. by Robert Bernasconi and Simon Critchley. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991: 234-245.
- David Clark, “On Being ‘The Last Kantian in Nazi Germany '. Dwelling with Animals after Levinas,” in Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject, ed. by Barbara Gabriel and Susan Ilcan. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2004: 41-75.
- Barbara Jane Davy, “An Other Face of Ethics in Levinas.” Ethics and the Environment, vol. 12, no. 1, 2007: 39-65.
May 28
9. The “Anthropological Machine” (Giorgio Agamben)
special guest: Robert Harrison
- Giorgio Agamben, The Open. Man and Animal, trans. by Kevin Attell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.
- Stuart Elden, "Heidegger's Animals." Continental Philosophy Review, vol. 39, no. 3, July 2006: 273–291.
- Jacques Derrida, “'Eating Well' or the Calculation of the Subject. An Interview with Jacques Derrida,” transl. by Peter Connor and Avital Ronell, in his, Points ... Interviews, 1974-1994. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995: 255-287.
- Cary Wolfe, “In the Shadow of Wittgenstein Lion: Language, Ethics,” in Zoontologies. The Question of the Animal , ed. by Cary Wolfe. Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003: 1-57.
June 4
10. Animals and the Holocaust
- David Sztybel, “Can the Treatment of Animals be Compared to the Holocaust.” Ethics and Environment , vol. 11, no. 1, 2006: 97-132.
- Nathan Sanza, “(Im)possible Witness: Viewing PETA'a ‘Holocaust on Your Plate.” Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Journal , vol. 2, no. 1, 2004: 1-20.
- Giorgio Agamben, "The Muselmann," in his, Remnants of Auschwitz. The Witness and the Archive. New York: Zone Books, 1999: 41-86.
- Marjorie Spiegel, The Dreader Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery. Mirror Books, 1997.
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