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Readings will be selected from this list of references. You may suggest other relevant readings and present them after discussing them ahead of time with me.
Artaud, Antonin. The Theatre and Its Double: Essays. London: Calder & Boyars, 1970. Preface. Ch 7: Theater and Cruelty; Ch 9: The Theater of Cruelty, Second Manifesto.
Badiou, Alain. Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy. Trans. Oliver Felham and Justin Clement. New York: Continuum, 1998.---. Theoretical Writings. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004. ISBN: 0826461468.
Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution. Tr. Arthur Mitchell, 1911 (Fr. 1907).Introduction, Chapter 1 "The Evolution of Life – Mechanism and Teleology", Chapter 4 "The Cinematographic Mechanism of Thought and the Mechanistic Illusion – A Glance at the History of Systems – Real Becoming and False Evolutionism"
Beaudrillard, Jean. Symbolic Exchange and Death. 1993 (Fr.1976).
Akeel Bilgrami, "Occidentalism, the Very Idea: An Essay on Enlightenment and Enchantment," Critical Inquiry, 32.3, 2005.
Brook, Peter. The Empty Space. [1st American ed. New York,: Atheneum, 1968. Chap. 2, Holy Theater.
Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. New York: Zone Books, 1994. (PDF chaps 1,2,3,5,7,8..; French edition)
____, re. Situationists 1963
Derrida, Jacques. Writing and Difference, Chicago: U. chicago Press, 1978. Ch. 6, La parole soufflŽe; Ch. 8, The Theater of Cruelty and the Closure of Representation.
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish : The Birth of the Prison. 2nd Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
---. Madness and Civilization; a History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. New York,: Vintage Books, 1988 (1973). ISBN: 067972110X.
Gendlin, Eugene. Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning : A Philosophical and Psychological Approach to the Subjective (Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy), Northwestern University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0810114275 .
Grotowski, Jerzy. Towards a Poor Theater , Routledge, 2002 (1968). ISBN: 0878301550.
Guattari, Felix. Chaosmosis : An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Chapters 1-2, chapters 6-7
______, Pragmatic/Machinic: A discussion with Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State University (19 March 1985).
Heidegger, Martin, and Eugen Fink. Heraclitus Seminar. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1993.
Heraclitus, and T. M. Robinson. Fragments. Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1987.
Husserl, Edmund. Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: First Book, General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology. Trans. F. Kersten. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1982 (1913).
---. The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1964 (1928).
JŠnich, Klaus. Topology. 1980, 1984. (Chapters 1-2. )
Lao-Tzu. Tao Te Ching. Translated with an Introd. By D.C. Lau. The Penguin Classics. Vol. L131. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1963. (selections, archive)
Latour, Bruno. "Why Has Critique Run out of Steam ? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern." Critical Inquiry 30.2 (2004): 25-24.
Lefebvre, Henri, Rhythmanalysis : space, time, and everyday life, London ; New York, Continuum, 2004.
Massumi, Brian. Parables for the Virtual : Movement, Affect, Sensation (Post-Contemporary Interventions). Duke University Press, 2002. (Chapter 5, Superiority of the Analog)
Maturana, Humberto R., and Francisco J. Varela. The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. 1st ed. Boston: New Science Library : Distributed in the United State by Random House, 1987.
Maturana, Humberto R., and Francisco J. Varela. Autopoiesis and Cognition : The Realization of the Living. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; V. 42. Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston: D. Reidel Pub. Co., 1980. ( autopo_n_cog.pdf, pp. 73-123)
Prigogine, I., and Isabelle Stengers. Order out of Chaos : Man's New Dialogue with Nature. Toronto ; New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1984.
Stengers:
"Beyond Conversation: The Risks of Peace." Process and Difference,
ed. Keller and Daniell,p.
235-55.
Stengers:
"Introductory Notes on an Ecology of Practices." Cultural Studies
Review 11.1 (2005, p. 183-96.
Thom, RenŽ. Structural Stability and Morphogenesis. Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1989. (Originally published as StabilitŽ structerelle et morphogŽnŹse, Essai d'une thŽorie gŽnŽrale des modŹles, 1972.)
Special Issue of on Thom : Atiyah, Bourguignon, Mazur, Ruelle, Smale, Sullivan. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (2004) 41.3.
Varela, Francisco,"Autopoiesis and a Biology of Intentionality," CREA, CNRSŃEcole Polytechnique,
Paris, 1991.
Weil, Simone. Oppression and Liberty. 1958, 1973.
---. Oppression and Liberty. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Whitehead, Alfred North. The Concept of Nature : The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2004.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, Third Edition. New York: MacMillan, 1958. Aphorisms 1-100. ; On rules §143-242; On graphical sign PI_192-212.pdf (aphorisms 192-212); pi_94-138_239-309.html (aphorisms 94-138, 239-309)
Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi : Basic Writings, tr. Burton Watson. Translations from the Asian Classics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.