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This course introduces students to feminist approaches to affective processes, embodiment and the senses that have gained increasing attention in gender studies. The course will examine conceptions of the interrelation of body and mind, flesh and signification, organism and environment. What insights into social life, dispossession, and bodily transformation including what is withdrawn and unavailable to verbalisation can be gained if we attune to sound, gestures, rhythm, ruptures and affective resonances? How are researcher-bodies involved in affective methodologies? What alternative histories and futures emerge in fugitive gestures of refusal, discarded photographs and sounds and movements? Case studies will focus on trans*bodies; black lives; debility; hospitality and slow death, and students will experiment with producing a piece of more embodied writing.
Poslední úprava: Lorenz - Meyer Dagmar, M.A., Ph.D. (13.10.2020)
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1. to develop a critical appreciation of bodies and affects as relational, active, open, material and discursive 2. to understand and apply different conceptual approaches to the body (e.g. post-structuralist, phenomenological, new materialist) 3. to attune your bodily sensorium to smells, sounds, movements and fleeting gestures and what they tell about the social 4. to experiment with creative writing of the body and what affect can do 6. to foster teamwork, collaboration and constructive criticism Poslední úprava: Lorenz - Meyer Dagmar, M.A., Ph.D. (20.09.2022)
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Assessment will be continuous and includes individual and group work through the semester. Instead of a final exam students will write a final paper, individually or in pairs. Individual work: Ø Active participation in monthly class discussions: 20 % Ø Creative writing paper/memory work (600 words): 15% Group work (in small groups of 2-4 students) Ø Choose a session that you want to run (block II-IV): prepare a summary of a key conceopt from one of the readings (500 words) and 3 questions for class discussion: 15% Ø Short Group Presentation on the creative writing and concepts: recompose one of the creative writing papers – analyse it from perspectives of the course (c 12-15 minutes): 15% Ø Final paper: analyse and expand the group presentation, or a course topic of your choice, drawing on further readings and at least two main readings (2500 words individually or 3500 words in pairs). Short abstracts are due before block IV, paper is due 28 January 2023: 35% Poslední úprava: Lorenz - Meyer Dagmar, M.A., Ph.D. (17.09.2024)
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This course will take place monthly and will be divided between short lectures, a discussion of required readings undertaken in smaller groups and class excercises. Class discussions will be prepared by small groups of students who will meet online with the class teacher before class and will be co-responsible for running the discussions. You will receive written comments and feedbacks on your writing. Poslední úprava: Lorenz - Meyer Dagmar, M.A., Ph.D. (17.09.2024)
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a full syllabus will be provided in the first week of term. Block I The Forces of Affect and Embodiment Block II Flesh and Signification Block III Affective Knowing through Touch, Sound and Smell Block IV Debility, Slow Death, Hospitality
Compulsory literature: KIRBY, Vicki. Judith Butler: Live Theory. Chapter: “Gender, Sexuality, Performance”. London: Continuum. ISBN: 978-0826462930. LIVINGSTON, Julie. Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana. Chapter: “Family Matter and Money Matters”. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN: 978-0253346377. MUNOZ, Jose Esteban (2007) Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. Chapter: “A Jete through the Window”. New York: NYU Press. ISBN: 978-1479874569. STRYKER, Susan. My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage. Kvinder, Kon & Forskning 3-4, 2011 [1994].
Elective literature: BERLANT, Lauren and STEWART, Kathleen. The Hundreds. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1478002888. CAMPT, Tina. Listening to Images. Chapter: “Quiet Soundings: The Grammar of Black Futurity”, 2017. ISBN: 978-0822362708. HALBERSTAM, Jack. Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-4780-1108-8 HARTMAN, Saidiya, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. New York: WW Norton. ISBN: 978-0393357622. Poslední úprava: Lorenz - Meyer Dagmar, M.A., Ph.D. (17.09.2024)
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