Critique of Civilization Presentations Schedule

Hi class, here is the schedule. If there is a conflict let me know and we can reorganize. You are welcome to focus on one reading but can choose more than one if you have several options. Your presentation should be 5-10 min. Don’t just summarize the content, but interpret it, working out how you feel/think about it, and connect it to themes discussed in the class if you can. You can be poetical and personal or more theoretical and academic. You don't need to have reached a conclusion, more important is to use the reading to formulate a question.

Wed 3/27

Reading assignment for class: Against Civilization, pp. 1-67

PRESENTERS

Aguirre, Sebastian:

Marshall Sahlins: "The Original Affluent Society"

Wissinger, Dan:

            Theodor Adorno: Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life 

Lee, Maurice:

Lynn Clive: "Birds Combat Civilization" 

Ancona, Natalie:

John Landau: "Wildflowers: A Bouquet of Theses" and/or

Marvin Harris: Our Kind

Barker, Anthony:

Romana Wilson: Spokane Museum and/or George P. Marsh: The Earth as Modified by Human Action

Beaudoin, Gabriel:

Frederick Turner: Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness and/or James Axtell: The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America

Mon 4/1

Reading assignment for class: Against Civilization, pp. 68-111.

PRESENTERS

Cotrim, Alexandra:

John Zerzan: Elements of Refusal and/or Paul Shepard : Nature and Madness

Egbo, Leslie:

Mark Nathan Cohen: Health and the Rise of Civilization and/or Robin Fox: The Search for Society 

Falcone, John:

Chellis Glendinning: My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization and/or Pierre Clastres, Society Against the State

Farmer, Scott:

Madhusree Mukerjee, The Land of the Naked People and/or Robert Wolff, Reading and Writing

Fessler, Richard:

Friedrich Schiller: On the Aesthetic Education of Man and/or Charles Fourier: Theory of Four Movements and General Destinies 

Gardner, Ryan:

            Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents and/or

John Landau: "Civilization and the Primitive" 

Wed 4/3

Reading assignment for class: Against Civilization, pp. 112-149.

PRESENTERS

Kang, Andrew:

Max Horkheimer: Eclipse of Reason and Dawn and Decline 

Kim, Dongwoo:

Richard Heinberg: "Was Civilization a Mistake?" and/or Barbara Mor: Here: a small history of a mining town in the American southwest: warren bisbee az

Lumbantoruan, Veronica:

            Joseph A. Tainter: The Collapse of Complex Societies

McGranahan, Clare:

Ivan Illich: Toward a History of Needs and/or Zygmunt Bauman: Modernity and the Holocaust  

Puma, Jonathan:

T. FuLANo: "Civilization Is Like a Jetliner" and/or Unabomber (a.k.a. "FC"): "Industrial Soctety and Its Future" 

Reed, Julia:

Tamarack Song, The Old Way and Civilization and/or Ursula LeGuin, Women/Wilderness and/or Max Nordau: Conventional Lies, or Our Civilization 

Mon 4/8

Reading assignment for class: Against Civilization, pp. 151-186

PRESENTERS

McGranahan, Clare:

Ivan Illich: Toward a History of Needs and/or Zygmunt Bauman: Modernity and the Holocaust   

Puma, Jonathan:

T. FuLANo: "Civilization Is Like a Jetliner" and/or Unabomber (a.k.a. "FC"): "Industrial Soctety and Its Future"  

Reed, Julia:

Tamarack Song, The Old Way and Civilization and/or Ursula LeGuin, Women/Wilderness and/or Max Nordau: Conventional Lies, or Our Civilization  

Sharma, Jay:

William H. Koetke: The Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and The Seed of the Future and/or Theodore Roszak: Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society

Sokhom, Theary:

Andrew Bard Schmookler: The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution and/or Peter Sloterdijk: Critique of Cynical Reason

Sung, Jonathan:

LABOR OF ludd: "The Medium Is the Medium"  and/or Fredric Jameson: The Seeds of Time  and/or Des Refractaires: "How Nice to Be Civilized!"  

Wed 4/10

Reading assignment for class: Against Civilization, pp. 187-269.

PRESENTERS

Toubal, Kahina:

David Watson: "Civilization in Bulk" and/or Richard Heinberg: Memories and Visions of Paradise  

Tugman, Christopher:

John Mohawk, In Search of Noble Ancestors and/or Rudolf Bahro: Avoiding Social and Ecological Disaster: The Politics of World Transformation

Vaze, Rohan:

John Zerzan: Future Primitive and/or William Morris: News from Nowhere and/or Feral Faun: "Feral Revolution"  

Wolock, Timothy:

Anonymous "Don't Eat Your Revolution! Make It!" and/or Glenn Parton: "The Machine in Our Heads" and/or Alon K. Raab: "Revolt of the Bats"  

Woo, Julian:

Kirkpatrick Sale: Rebels Against the Future: Lessons from the Luddites and/or Derrick Jensen: "Actions Speak Louder Than Words"  

de Venecia, Jose Jamie:

Anti -Authoritarians Anonymous: "We Have To Dismantle All Tms" and/or John (Fire) Lame Deer, Talking to the Owls and Butterflies and/or Susan Griffin, Woman and Nature