CRITICAL THEORIES OF CULTURE

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1 Syllabus CRITICAL THEORIES OF CULTURE Last update HU Credits: 4 Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master) Responsible Department: cultural studies-individual graduate prog. Academic year: 0 Semester: Yearly Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Dr. Ronit Peleg Coordinator ronitpe@bezeqint.net Coordinator Office Hours: Tuesday, Teaching Staff: Dr. Ronit Peleg page 1 / 7

2 Course/Module description: This course presents students with a toolkit for engaging in critical thought and cultural criticism, as well as providing an opportunity to examine and discuss changes that have taken place in critical thoughtbeginning with the cultural criticism of Marx, Freud, Adorno and Horkheimer; through the post-structuralist thought of Fanon and Homi Bhabha; and continuing up to contemporary critical thought. The course will place particular emphasis on contemporary Continental thought, developed in Europe (especially France) beginning in the late 1960s, and on the writings of such thinkers as: Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Franחois Lyotard, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Ranciטre, Gilles Deleuze, and Fיlix Guattari. The aim of the course is to introduce different aspects of critical thought: its key concepts, central questions, and the new perspectives that it offers for describing, interpreting, and critically examining contemporary culture and todays globalized world. We will be introduced to such concepts as: symbolic fetishism, simulacra and simulation, distribution of the sensible, differend, diffיrance, deconstruction, aporia, biopower, minority, and bare life, and we will investigate the potential fruitfulness of these concepts for relating to a variety of contemporary cultural, social, and political phenomena and events. Inter alia, we will deal with commodity fetishism and racial fetishism; we will reconsider the subject of human rights; we will discuss the obligation of hospitality (toward refugees and immigrants), and questions of forgiveness and regret; we will problematize the concepts of legal, political, and historical testimony; we will inquire into the relationship between the body and the law, as well as the relationship between language, identity, and belonging; and we will deal with becoming-minority as a strategy of resistance. Throughout, we will take care to examine these critical discourses in relation to contemporary cultural phenomena and central political events from the second half of the twentieth century until our own time. Course/Module aims: Enable students to apply critical thought to cultural analysis Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: Combine various paradigms of critical thought Critically analyze specific cultural practices, objects, or institutions Discuss possibilities and limitations of cultural theory Adapt theoretical concepts to specific situations or locations of culture Question the relations of cultural theory and praxis/practice page 2 / 7

3 Attendance requirements(%): 100 % Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Lectures, debate, close reading, written responses, class presentations, final paper Course/Module Content: נושאי הקורס: 1. Introduction: Contemporary Critical Thought 2. A Critique of Political Economy: From Fetishism of Commodity to Fetishism of the Sign קארל מארקס, "העבודה המנוכרת", בתוך: כתבי שחרות, (תרגום: שלמה אבינרי), ת"א: הוצאת ספרית פועלים, הקיבוץ הארצי,, 1965 עמ' קארל מארקס, "האופי הפטישיסטי של הסחורה", בתוך: הקפיטל,כרך א', (צבי וויסלבסקי) רחביה: הוצאת ספרית פועלים, , עמ' William Pietz, "The Problem of the Fetish I, II," Res 9, Spring 85: 5-17, and Res 13, Spring 87: Jean Baudrillard For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, pp Catharine MacKinnon A "Feminism, Marxism, method, and the state: An agenda for theory." Signs 7.3 (1982): Hegemony, Ideology and Culture A Discussion Following Antonio Gramsci אנטוניו גרמשי, על ההגמוניה, מבחר מתוך "מחברות הכלא", עמ' The Individual and the Group A Discussion Following Sigmund Freud Text: זיגמונד פרויד, "פסיכולוגיה של ההמון ואנאליזה של האני" (1921), בתוך : כתבי זיגמונד פרויד, תרגם: אריה בר, הוצאת דביר 1968, עמ' The Culture Industry A Discussion following T. Adorno and M. Horkheimer תיאודור וו. אדורנו ומקס הורקהיימר, "תעשיית תרבות: נאורות כהונאת המונים," מתוך תיאודור וו. אדורנו ומקס הורקהיימר, אסכולת פרנקפורט (מבחר), עריכה מדעית ומבוא מיכאל מי-דן ואברהם יסעור, תרגום: דוד ארן, תל-אביב: ספרית פועלים 1993, עמ' משה צוקרמן, "אסכולת פרנקפורט ומושג "חרושת התרבות" בפרספקטיבה היסטורית," בתוך: זמנים מס' 44, אביב 1993, ת"א: אוניברסיטת ת"א, זמורה-ביתן, עמ' Identity, Culture and Politics Postcolonialism and Critical Thought פרנץ פנון, עור שחור, מסכות לבנות, (תרגום: תמר קפלנסקי), ת"א: ספרית מעריב, הומי באבא, שאלת האחר: הבדל, אפליה ושיח פוסט-קולוניאלי" תיאוריה וביקורת 5 (סתיו 1994): החומר הלבן (היבט פוליטי של לובן). תיאוריה וביקורת 20 (אביב 2002): מוהנטי צ'נדרה טלפדה, [1988] (2006): תחת עיניים מערביות: הגות פמיניסטית ושיחים קולוניאליים. בתוך: דלית באום ואחרות (עורכות). ללמוד פמיניזם מקראה: מאמרים ומסמכי יסוד במחשבה פמיניסטית (עמ' 442) תל אביב: הקיבוץ המאוחד (מגדרים). page 3 / 7

4 7. Modernity, Postmodernity and the Postmodern Condition A Critical Discussion of the Collapse of the Metanarratives of Modernity 'ז'אן פרנסואה ליוטר, הסברים על הפוסט מודרני, עמ': Jean-Francois Lyotard: "Declaration of 1789", The Differend, pp On Contemporaneity A Discussion following Giorgio Agamben Text : ג'ורג'יו אגמבן: "בן הזמן", כתב עת מפתח , 9. Living Within the "System" of the Contemporary Global World A Discussion Following Guy Debord and Jean-Francois Lyotard גי דבור, חברת הראווה, תזות: 1-53 Jean-Francois Lyotard, "Marie Goes to Japan", Postmodern Fables, pp On Refugees, Immigrants and Hospitality The Current Challenges of Europe חנה ארנדט, "שקיעתה של מדינת-האומה וקץ זכויות האדם", יסודות הטוטליטריות, עמ; Jacques Ranciטre: "who is the subject of the rights of man?" in: Dissensus, pp Giorgio Agamben, "Beyond Human Rights", Means without End, Notes on Politics, pp (גישה ישירה באינטרנט) ז'אק דרידה, על הכנסת אורחים, עמ' Between Aesthetics and Politics A Discussion following Jacques Ranciטre Jacques Ranciטre: The emancipated spectator, pp.1-25 Jacques Ranciטre: "Ten Theses on Politics," Theory & Event 5(3), 2001 (גישה מרחוק באינטרנט) Jacques Ranciטre; The Ignorant Schoolmaster, Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, pp On the Hatred of the Demos in the Contemporary Western World A Discussion Following Jacques Ranciטre Jacques Ranciטre: Hatred of Democracy, pp Between Language, Morality and Politics On the Order of Discourse and the Battles beneath the Words A Discussion Following Michel Foucault and Jean- Francois Lyotard ז'אן פרנסואה ליוטר, "הדיפרנד", בתוך: תיאוריה וביקורת, מס' 8 עמ' Sovereignty, Biopolitics and "Bare Life" A Discussion Following Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Achille Mbembe ג'ורג'יו אגמבן, "פרדוקס הריבונות", בתוך: הומו סאקר הכוח הריבוני והחיים החשופים, טכנולוגיות של צדק, משפט, מדע וחברה, שי לביא (עורך), עמ' Giorgio Agamben, "The Camp as the` Nomos` of the Modernity", pp page 4 / 7

5 Achille Mbembe, "Necropolitics", in: Biopolitics, A Reader, pp On Identity, Sacrifice and Community A Discussion Following Jean-Francois Lyotard texts Jean Francois Lyotard, "Result", in: The Differend, Phrases in Dispute, pp : Body Language Power Desire : A Discussion Following Franz Kafka and Jean- Francois Lyotard פרנץ קפקא: "במושבת העונשין", בתוך: רופא כפרי, 17." Becoming Minority" as an act of Resistance A Discussion Following Gilles Deleuze and Fיlix Guattari ז'יל דלז ופליקס גואטרי, "מהי ספרות מינורית", קפקא, לקראת ספרות מינורית, עמ' On the Possibility of Solidarity and Resistance in the Contemporary World A Discussion Following Jacques Derrida, Pier Paolo Pasolini and George-Didi Huberman Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, The Work of Mourning & the New International, pp ג'ורג' דידי הוברמן, הישרדות הגחליליות. עמ' , 19. On Traumatic Pasts, On Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Regret A Discussion Following Jacques Derrida texts Derrida, "The laws of Reflection: Nelson Mandela in Admiration", IN: Jacques Derrida and Mustapha Tili (eds), For Nelson Mandela, pp ז'אק דרידה, "המאה והסליחה: ריאיון עם ז'אק דרידה", תיאוריה וביקורת 27, סתיו 2005, עמ; (תדפיס) Required Reading: see above Additional Reading Material: Agger, Ben, Cultural Studies as Critical Theory, London and New York: Routledge 1992 Azzmanova, Albena, "Crisis? Capitalism is Doing Very Well. How is Critical Theory?," Constellations 21, no. 3 (2014): Bhabha, Homi, The Commitment to Theory, Locations of Culture, London and New York: Routledge 1994, Bourdieu, Pierre, Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power, in Culture / Power / History, edited by N.B.Dirks, G.Eley, S.B.Ortner. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1994: page 5 / 7

6 Jonathan Culler, Introduction: Whats the point?, in The Point of Theory. Practices of Cultural Analysis, edited by M. Bal and I. E. Boer, New York: Continuum 1994: 1317 Douglas, Mary, How Institutions Think. London: Routledge and K.Paul 1987 Godzich, Wlad, Foreword: The Tiger on the Paper Mat. In Paul de Man: The Resistance to Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1986, ix-xviii Gramsci, Antonio, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, edited and translated by Q. Hoare and G.N. Smith, New York: International Publishers 1971 גרמשי, אנטוניו, על ההגמוניה. מבחר מתוך "מחברות הכלא",תל אביב: רסלינג 2005 Grossberg, Lawrence, "The Conversation of Cultural Studies," Cultural Studies 23, no. 2 (2009): Gunster, Shane, Capitalizing on Culture: Critical Theory for Cultural Studies, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2004 Hall, Stuart (Ed.), Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, , London: Hutchinson and CCCS Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms, in Culture / Power / History, edited by N.B.Dirks, G.Eley, S.B.Ortner. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1994: Hesmondhalgh, David, "What Cultural, Critical, and Communication Might Mean: Why Cultural Studies is a Bit Like Rave Culture," Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies 10, Nos 2/3 (September 2013): Marianne Hirsch, Masking the Subject: Practicing Theory, in in The Point of Theory. Practices of Cultural Analysis, edited by M. Bal and I. E. Boer, New York: Continuum 1994: Jameson, Frederic Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Duke University Press 1991 Kellner, Douglas, Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press "Toward a Critical Media/Cultural Studies," in: Media/Cultural Studies: Critical Approaches, ed. by Rhonda Hammer and Douglas Kellner, New York: Peter Lang 2009: 5-24 Nelson, Cary and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies, New York: Routledge 1996 Ono, Kent A., "Critical: A Finer Edge," Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies 8, no. 1 (March 2011): Rasmussen, David, "Critical Theory Then and Now," The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 26, no. 2 (2012): Turner, Graeme, British Cultural Studies, London and New York: Routledge1996 Williams, Raymond, Conclusion, Culture and Society , London: Chatto and Windus, 1967: Keywords. A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Oxford University Press 1985 Course/Module evaluation: page 6 / 7

7 Powered by TCPDF ( End of year written/oral examination 50 % Presentation 25 % Participation in Tutorials 0 % Project work 0 % Assignments 25 % Reports 0 % Research project 0 % Quizzes 0 % Other 0 % Additional information: the complete references to the English version of the texts will be given later page 7 / 7