Colt 303: Globalization: Culture, Change, Resistance



Colt 303: Globalization: Culture, Change, Resistance

Professor: K. Pinkus

Taper Hall 153

Tel: 213 740 0104

Email: pinkus@usc.edu

This syllabus is tentative and is subject to change

1/14: introduction: What is Globalization and what does it have to do with Culture? Why are we studying Globalization in Comparative Literature?

1/16: Global Cultures?

readings:

1. David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Introduction, chapters 1-2

1/21: Literature and globalization. What can literature teach us about globalization and vice versa?

Readings:

1. David Harvey, chapters 3-4

2. Ben Fountain, “Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera,” from Brief Encounters with Che Guevara

1/23: Literature and Globalization

Readings:

1. Ben Fountain: TBA

1/30: Shelter: The Culture of Living

1. David Harvey

2. Robert Neuwirth, Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World, Prologue, “Time Present” chap. 1-4 (pp. 1-176).

2/4: Shelter: The Culture of Living (con’t)

1. Robert Neuwirth, “Time Past” chaps. 5-6 (pp. 177-240).

2/6: Shelter: architecture: slums, barrios, gated communities, detention centers

Readings:

1. Evil Paradises (selections on Ares)

2/11: Cyberspace: a place of resistance?

Readings:

1. Pierre Lévy. Collective Intelligence. Mankind’s Emerging World in Cyberspace. Trans.Robert Bononno (selections on Ares)

2. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude (selections on Ares)

2/13: Immaterial labor

Readings:

1. Paolo Virno. "Labour and Language."

2/20: mid term exam

2/25: Is Another Production Possible?

Readings:

1. Boaventura de Sousa Santos César and A. Rodríguez-Garavito, “Introduction: Expanding the Economic Canon and Searching for Alternatives to Neoliberal Globalization,” from Another Production is Possible (ARES reserve)

2/27: Clothing

Readings:

1. Naomi Klein, No Logo

3/3: visit to American Apparel Factory, downtown Los Angeles

3/5: Clothing

Readings:

1. Naomi Klein, No Logo

3/10: Case studies in production and consumption: students will visit various retail outlets in small groups and report on findings

3/12: Precarious Workers of the World

Readings:

1. Vanni, Ilaria and Marcello Tarì. “On the Life and Deeds of San Precario, Patron Saint of Precarious Workers and Lives” Fibrecultures n. 5 (2005). journal.

3/24: Forms of Resistance

Readings:

Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. Empire (selections)

3/26: Biology and globalization

Readings:

1. Eugene Thacker, The Global Genome (selections on Ares)

2. Michael Novacek, The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Counts (selections on Ares)

3/31: The University in/of Globalization:

Readings:

Kamuf, Peggy. The Division of Literature: Or the University in Deconstruction (selections on Ares)

4/2: possible field trip: TBA

4/7: Postfordism and its Cultures:

Readings:

1. Zanini, Adelio. "Introduction to the posfordist lexicon."

4/9: presentations

4/14: presentations

4/16: lecture by Beatriz Jaguaribe: Brazillian Cultures and Globalization

4/21: What futures for the globe?: climate change

Charles Wohlforth. The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change (selections on Ares)

4/23: the futures of the globe: climate change

Readings:

E.O. Wilson, The Future of Life (selections on Ares)

4/28: the futures of the globe: climate change.

Readings: TBA

4/30: last class: conclusion

Course requirements:

Attendance and active participation in all discussions is required. If you have to miss a class for any reason, please inform me in advance.

Short response paper: visit to retail outlet 20 %

In-class presentation: 10 %

Short response paper: visit to American Apparel: 10 %

mid-term exam: 20%

final paper: 40%

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