Lit 6855: The Schedule, Revisited

As noted in our last session, the ground-rules for discussion have been altered. I've taken the liberty of changing the structure of the class from one of imagined public-sphere debate to a far earlier historical model, the model of the seminary from which present university structures took their shape. Again, these are the new ground rules:

1. You, as the students, must ask my permission to speak at any given time. 2. You will have precisely 5 minutes, once recognized to speak, in which to make your point, or present a problem, or a question. I will strictly enforce this time limit. 3. I retain the right to randomly call on you to answer a question or present one about the readings. 4. You will address all of your comments to me.

The person responsible for presenting a response to the readings at hand will be allowed as long as they need to present their response clearly and fully. If you wish to speak to them, you must treat them as if they were the professor.

If I decide that the response is muddy, drifting or irrelevant, I will end it.

Week 8: February 25 "Techno-sense"

On Censorship and Cyberspace: V. Agnew respondant

Copied Readings from Capitalism and the Information Age:

"Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind" Noam Chomsky

"The Propaganda Model Revisited" Edward Herman

Copied Readings from High Noon on the Electronic Frontier

"Censoring Cyberspace" Philip Elmer-Dewitt

ACLU Letter to CMU on alt.sex Newsgroups

"Virtual Community Standards: BBS Obscentiy Case Raises New Legal Issues" Mike Godwin

"Public Networks and Censorship" Jeffrey Shallit

"Sex and the Single Sysadmin: The Risks of Carrying Graphic Sexual Materials" Mike Godwin

**"Computer and Academic Freedom News's List of Banned Files on College Campuses" compiled by Carl Kadie**

Copied selections from The Differend

Week 9: March 3 "Techno-sense"

On Pornography: M. Adams response

All Copied Readings from:

"Pornography: The Theory" by Frances Ferguson (CI, Spring 1995) 670-695

"The Force of Fantasy" by Judith Butler (differences, 2.2 1990) 105-125

"(Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust" by Laura Kipnis (Cultural Studies Routledge, 1991) 373-376.

"Public Sex" by Pat Califia (from Public Sex, Cleis Press, 1994) 71-82.

"Politically Correct? Politically Incorrect?" by Muriel Dimen (Pleasure and Danger Routledge, 1984) 138-148

"Lethal Bodies" by Tania Modleski (from Feminism Without Women, Routledge, 1991) 135-163.

**"Baudy Bandwith" by Harvey Blume (from Tolstoy's Dictaphone ed. Sven Birkerts, Graywolf Press, 1998).**

NOTE: Bring back Micheal Warner's "Mass Public, Mass Subject"

Week 10: SPRING BREAK

Week 11: March 17

Language: Academese and Labor, J. Townsend respondant

Throwaways Evan Watkins, Intro and Chapters 1,2,4,5.

Public Access Michael Berube, bring back notes from your earlier readings, read part III and Epilogue.

NOTE: Return to Aronowitz, The Jobless Future

YOUR PROPOSAL, with bibliography, due this week

Week 12: March 24

Language: Community & Citizenship: J. Gentry and B. Dilger, resps.

Corlett, William, Community without Unity (Duke, 1993), Part I and II

Jean-Luc Nancy, The Inoperative Community (Minnesota, 1991) introduction and chapter one.

COPIED READING:

From Community at Loose Ends ed. Miami Theory Collective (Minnesota, 1991): selections by Nancy, Kamuf and Mouffe (xerox)

NOTE: Bring back Benedict Anderson's Imagined Community

Week 13: March 31

Literacies? J. Rice response

Copied Readings:

G. Spivak, "Politics of Translation," from Outside in the Teaching Machine

Nancy Kaplan, "Eliteracies: Politext, Hypertexts and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print." (xerox) See also

http://raven.ubalt.edu/staff/kaplan/One_Beginning_417.html

Susan Herring, "Bringing Familiar Baggage to the New Frontier: Gender Differences in Computer-Mediated Communication," (V. Vintanza CyberReader, Allyn, 1996).

Selections from: John Guillory's Cultural Capital, David Simpson's The Academic Postmodern and the Rule of Literature and Peggy Kamuf's The Division of Literature