A Collection of Reflections
Taught in Winter ‘23 by Prof. Philip Thurtle for the Comparative History of Ideas Department at UW.
| Week | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eye and Mind | Maurice Merleau-Ponty |
| 1 | “Introduction” from Queer Phenomenology | Sara Ahmed |
| 1 | “Before We Proceed” from Emergence | John Holland |
| 1 | “Complexity, Agency, and Time” from A World of Becoming | William Connolly |
| 2 | “Theoretical Introduction” from The Accursed Share | Georges Bataille |
| 2 | “Introduction” from Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future | Candace Fujikane |
| 2 | “Immanence: A Life” from Pure Immanence | Gilles Deleuze |
| 3 | “The Genesis of the Individual” from Incorporations | Gilbert Simondon |
| 3 | The Spiral | Italo Calvino |
| 3 | Desert Islands | Gilles Deleuze |
| 4 | “Animal Architecture” and “Making Babies: 25,000 Genes, Some Assembly Required” from Endless Forms Most Beautiful | Sean Carroll |
| 4 | “How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs” from A Thousand Plateaus | Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari |
| 5 | “Zombie Roaches and Other Parasite Tales” Ted Talk | Ed Yong |
| 5 | “Racial Capitalism: A Fundamental Cause of Novel Coronavirus Pandemic Inequities in the United State” | Whitney N. Laster Pirtle |
| 6 | Vampyroteuthis Infernalis | Vilém Flusser and Louis Bec |
| 7 | Annihilation | Jeff Vandermeer |
| 9 | “Posthuman Humanities: Life Beyond Theory” from The Posthuman | Rosi Braidotti |