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2012-2013, some readings will be drawn from the following list.
Critiques of language and representation
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, Third Edition. New York: MacMillan, 1958. Aphorisms 1-100.
Heidegger, Martin. Poetry, Language, Thought. HarperCollins Canada / Harper Trade, 2001.
Critique of categories, power
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization; a History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. New York,: Vintage Books, 1973.
———. Discipline and Punish : The Birth of the Prison. 2nd Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
Stengers & Pignarre
Phenomenology, embodiment and everyday life
Lefebvre, Henri. Rhythmanalysis : Space, Time, and Everyday Life. London ; New York: Continuum, 2004.
———. Critique of Everyday Life. Special ed. London ; New York: Verso, 2008.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. Tr. Donald A. Landes. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge, 2011.
Applications & Advanced topics
In-situ design
Alexander, Christopher. Nature of Order in 4 Vols: The Phenomenon of Life, The Process of Creating Life , A Vision of a Living World, The Luminous Ground. The Center for Environmental Structure Series ;. Berkeley, Calif.: Center for Environmental Structure, 2004.
Vegetal experience
Marder, Michael. "Vegetal Anti-Metaphysics: Learning from Plants." Continental Philosophy Review 44 (2011): 469-89.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. The Metamorphosis of Plants. Translated by Gordon L. Miller. MIT Press, 2009 (1790).
Le Guin, Ursula K. "The Bones of the Earth." In Tales from Earthsea. 151-72. New York: Harcourt, 2001.
FoAM
Temporality
Merleau-Ponty, Casey
Alchemy and Capitalist Sorcery
Pignarre & Stengers
Marder, Michael."Resist Like a Plant! On the Vegetal Life of Political Movements." Peace Studies Journal 5, no. 1 (2012): 24-32.,
Maths after Deleuze and Badiou
Milnor, John Willard. Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint. Rev. ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997..