ENG 6077 Forms (Section 5338) Fall 2009

ourse requirements

POSTHUMANITIES: THE ANIMAL

AND

A fifteen-page paper (4500 words) (75%) Seminar presentation (15%) Seminar participation (which includes being responsible for class discussion in general and for a particular hour of the seminars discussion) (10%) eadings

HUMAN

EXCEPTIONALISM
INSTRUCTOR

John Leavey 4328 Turlington Hall 392.6650 x 273 Office Hours: Tuesday, noon to 12:50 pm Other times by appointment
TIME

Tuesday, Periods 6-8

Agamben, The Open: Man and Animal Coetzee, The Lives of Animals Donovan and Adams, ed., The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus Derrida, The Animal that Therefore I Am Haraway, When Species Meet Kafka, Metamorphosis and Other Stories Lawlor, This Is Not Sufficient Lippit, Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife Quiroga, The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories Wolfe, Zoontologies

he animal is a topic of significant import for posthumanities. This course will look at certain writers regarding the animal, animal rights, and the industry of the animal.

In order to establish some boundaries for this type of seminar, we will look at what are the constraints of and for animals and human exceptionalism. We will examine through theoretical and literary readings the topics of human and animal, queer and posthumanities, exceptionalism and politics in order to get some sort of handle on this thing called the animal.

ENTATIVE S CHEDULE August September October November December

Absences Any absence from class affects your final grade. Seminar Presentations Each of you must make a research presentation based on your final paper on 8 December 2009. The presentation is approximately ten minutes (like a conference paper) followed by comments and discussion. Seminar Participation You will have responsibility for discussion. The presentations will be related to the readings of the day or will take up a topic encom-passing the readings over several weeks. Remember, this is your time to work with each other on topics of mutual interest. Evaluations will be based on evidence, argument, and interest/import. Fifteen-Page Paper Each of you will have to present a 4500-word paper by 9 December 2009 on a topic approved for this class. The Disability Resource Center in the Dean of Students Office provides students and faculty with information and support regarding accommodations for students with disabilities in the classroom. For more information, see: http://www.dso.ufl.edu/drc/ UF provides an educational and working environment for its students, faculty, and staff that is free from sex discrimination and sexual harassment. For more about UF policies regarding harassment, see: http://www.dso.ufl.edu/sccr/sexual/ All students are required to abide by the Student Honor Code. For more information about academic honesty, including definitions of plagiarism and unauthorized collaboration, see: http://www.dso.ufl.edu/sccr/honorcodes/honorcode.php Grading Policy: For grades of the Graduate School, see https://gradschool.ufl.edu/catalog/current-catalog/catalog-general-regul ations.html

25 Introductory Remarks 1 Coetzee 8 Agamben 15 Deleuze and Guattari 22 Haraway 29 Haraway 6 Wolfe 13 Derrida 20 Derrida 27 Lawlor 3 Kafka, Quiroga, Coetzee 10 Donovan and Adams 17 Lippit 24 Research and Writing 1 Research and Writing 8 Presentations and Concluding Remarks