Friendship and Collaboration: In Theory, In Practice
THEA 364
Fall 2017
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01
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| Crosslisting:
ENGL 362, AFAM 364 |
| Course Cluster: Queer Studies |
How do we concieve of friendship, collaboration, love, and collectivity? In an interview, Michel Foucault stated that the relational task of the homosexual was to "invent, from A to Z, a relationship that is still formless, which is friendship: that is to say, the sum of everything through which they can give each other pleasure." This course considers theories and performances of relationality, queer belonging, and friendship with an emphasis on forms of belonging and recognition that exceed normative protocols. We will ask how queer practices, black thought, brown study, and indigenous epistemologies inform our own imaginings of collaborative projects. Beginning with philisophical determinations of friendship, we will branch out to imagine ways in which artists, lovers, friends, and/or cohabitators enact togetherness. Artists and projects to be discusses incude: Andy Warhol's Factory, Hugo Ball, Emily Johnson, Black Salt Collective, My Barbarian, Harriett's Apothecary, General Sisters, the Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange, Betalocal and more. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA THEA |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (ENGL)(THEA) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Michel Foucault, FRIENDSHIP AS A WAY OF LIFE Giorgio Agamben, FRIENDSHIP
Jacques Derrida, POLITICS OF FRIENDSHIP
Elizabeth Povinelli, EMPIRE OF LOVE
Samuel Delany, TIMES SQUARE RED, TIMES SQUARE BLUE
Donna Haraway, STAYING WITH THE TROUBLE, GLQ Special Issue, QUEER INHUMANISMS, Social Text Special Issue, BEING WITH
Combahee River Collective, COLLECTIVE STATEMENT
Fred Moten THE BEAUTY OF JOSżE ESTEBAN MUżNOZ
Jean Luc Nancy, BEING SINGULAR PLURAL
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| Instructor(s): Brewer Ball,Katherine Times: .M..... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: TST101; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 16 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 4 | JR non-major: 4 | SO: 0 | FR: 0 |
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