NODE.801 Course Materials

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Cultural Studies Sections I-II SS.330.01-02	Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud SS. 490.05	Michel Foucault & Critical Theory SS. 490	On the History of Science & the Origins of Race SS. 490
Syllabus	Syllabus	Syllabus & Course Notes	Syllabus
Slides for Spring 2010 Archived Slides	Slides for 1st Darwin session	Course Questions

New York Botanical Garden

Maps of Ancient Earth
It is important to remember that the Earth has not always looked as it does today.

See especially the works of Rosa Luxemberg , Professor of Economics & author of the first sustained critique of Marx's Capital in her Accumulation of Capital, and leader of the Spartacus rebellion; and I. I. Rubin, Professor of Economic History, whose view that Marx presented a theory and critique of culture ---and not a science of society--- earned him a death in the Gulag. A reading of these will provide a foundation as well to understanding the marxism in the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School.

Many of the translations of Marx date from the Soviet era, and although sometimes the differences can be subtle, the effect of the politics of the era on the translations could itself be the subject of a course.
We will use the Penguin Classics translation, which is considered more up to date.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Archived Courses
Syllabi
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Cultural Studies

Spring 1997, Spring 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2003, Spring 2004,
Fall 2004, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008.

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Methods of Cultural Analysis

Spring 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001.

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Controversies in Cultural Theory

Fall 1997; Fall 1998: The Social Text Affair, Postmodernism, & Science Studies; Fall 1999:
Marx and Nietzsche Co-taught with Prof. Sameetah Agha.

Syllabus included in Teaching Sociology from a Marxist Perspective, 2nd ed.
Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association; 2000:
Cultural Studies, Science, and Society; Spring 2001.

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Spaces, Movements, Identities

Fall 1998, Fall 2000, Fall 2004

co-taught with Prof. W. Menking's Communities, Cultures, Places course.
Syllabus included in Teaching Sociology from a Marxist Perspective, 1st and 2nd eds.,
Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.

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Political Institutions

Fall 1997, Fall 1999, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006.

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Societies of Control

Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2003, Spring 2005

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Introductory Sociology:
The Ends
&
Uses of Society

Fall 1999, Fall 2000

Syllabus included in Teaching Sociology from a Marxist Perspective,1st and 2nd eds.,
Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.

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Perception
&
Creativity

Fall 1997; Fall 1998; Fall 1999.
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Cultural Studies Praxis I:
From Work to Text

Spring 2004.

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The Uses of Terror

Fall 2004

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Rights
&
Responsibilities
Bard College.
Fall, 1994
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Fixity, Succession, Progress,
&
Degeneration: Cuvier, Hegel, Spencer, Lombroso

(syllabus tba)

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Nature
(syllabus tba)
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Sociology
The Ends
&
Uses of Society
(syllabus tba)

________________ Charles Darwin	Cambridge University Darwin Project: The Complete Works, Manuscrpts, Works on Darwin, etc. Darwin Correspondence Project Voyage of the Beagle in Blog format Darwin's Home: Downe House American Museum of Natural History: Darwin Exhibition American Museum of Natural History: Darwin Digital Library of Evolution New York Botanical Garden Maps of Ancient Earth It is important to remember that the Earth has not always looked as it does today.	Biodiversity Heritage Library Census of Marine Life Tree of Life Project Evolution of Evolution: 150 Years of Darwin's On the Origin of Species National Science Foundation The BBC's extensive Darwin Page BBC Slideshow of Darwin's Beagle Notebooks Melvyn Bragg's series of Darwin programs. Check out the In Our Time audio archives as well. New York Times' Darwin page
________________ Karl Marx	Marx -Engels Internet Archive The Marxist Internet Archive See especially the works of Rosa Luxemberg , Professor of Economics & author of the first sustained critique of Marx's Capital in her Accumulation of Capital, and leader of the Spartacus rebellion; and I. I. Rubin, Professor of Economic History, whose view that Marx presented a theory and critique of culture ---and not a science of society--- earned him a death in the Gulag. A reading of these will provide a foundation as well to understanding the marxism in the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. Many of the translations of Marx date from the Soviet era, and although sometimes the differences can be subtle, the effect of the politics of the era on the translations could itself be the subject of a course. We will use the Penguin Classics translation, which is considered more up to date. Genealogical Sources for the Study of Karl Marx (unfinished fragment, but you will get the idea) Bibliography for the Course: Marx from Stanley Aronowitz's course: "Marx," CUNY Graduate Center, 1996.
_______________ Friedrich Nietzsche	The Nietzsche Channel Friedrich Nietzsche Society There are a number of tranlations of Nietzsche online, but we will use the standard translations by Walter Kaufmann. These are not online.
______________ Sigmund Freud	S igmund Freud Museum, London Research Centre: Letters, Documents, Prints Sigmund Freud Archives Sigmund Freud and the Freud Archives Freud Museum, Vienna Sigmund Freud Radio Talk on the BBC
________________ Michel Foucault & Critical Theory	Michel Foucault Archives
________________ On the History of Science & the Origins of Race	Selected Bibliography for SS. 490 On the History of Science and the Origins of Race ________________ Slides for Session One ________________ Slides for Session Two ________________ Slides for Session Three	________________ Obsolete Syllabi Spring 2005.