Hegemonic Masculinity

Is Masculinity in crisis?

Reading: Debbie Ging (2017) Alphas, Betas, and Incels: Theorizing the Masculinities of the Manosphere in Men and Masculinities pp. 1-4

Indigenous Ways of Knowing

Decolonial ways of seeing

Reading: Linda Tuhiwai Smith (2012) Introduction from ‘Decolonizing Methodologies’ pp. 1-18.

Critical Posthumanism

Human/Animal/Transhuman

Reading: Nayar, P.K. (2014) Revisiting the Human: in Posthumanism. Polity Press pp. 1-11.

Anthropocene

Imaging Planetary Emergency

Reading: Davis, H. and Todd, Z. (2017) On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene ACME: 16:4

Week 1: Spectrum

/ˈspɛktrəm/Noun

1. a band of colours, as seen in a rainbow, produced by separation of the components of light by their different degrees of refraction according to wavelength. 2. used to classify something in terms of its position on a scale between two extreme points.

Reading: Ruha Benjamin (2019) Coded Exposure: Is Visibility a Trap from ‘Race After Technology’. Polity Press. pp. 97-128

2/3: Fabrication

Histories

Fabrication /fabrɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n /Noun

1.the action or process of manufacturing or inventing something 2. an invention; a lie.

Reading session 1: Elizabeth Edwards and Janice Hart (2004): Photographs as Objects from ‘Photographs Objects Histories’. Routledge. Intro. pp.1-15

Reading session 2: Malek Alloula (1986) Women from the Outside: Obstacle and Transparency from ‘The Colonial Hareem.’ Minnesota Press. pp. 7-15

Week 4: Fluidity

Is Gender Fluid?

Reading: Paul B. Preciado (2013) Technogender: from ‘Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era’. Feminist Press. pp. 99-113

Week 5: Circulation

Analogue to Digital

Reading: Hito Steyerl (2009) In Defense of the Poor Image. eflux Journal 10

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/