Syllabus 2026-27
Under construction for 26-27---full details available soon
This year's module will be taught by 5 different staff members, allowing students to benefit from a variety of critical approaches and interests. The module Convenor is Daniel Katz, so please contact Dan if you have any immediate questions or problems (d.katz@warwick.ac.uk). Note: the information below is provisional, and subject to minor modification.
WEEK ONE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION and PSYCHOANALYSIS AND REVOLUTION (Daniel Katz)
Ian Parker and David Pav贸n-Cu茅llar, Preface and Introduction, Psychoanalysis and Revolution, 1968 Press, 2021 (handout)
David Pav贸n-Cu茅llar, "Metapsychology on the Battlefield," in Samo Tomsic and Andreja Zevnik, reds, Jacques Lacan: Between Psychoanalysis and Politics, Routledge, 2016 (available as e-text through library portal).
WEEK TWO: SEMIOCAPITALISM, LANGUAGE, DEBT (DK)
Franco "Bifo" Berardi, The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance, Semiotexte, 2012, pp. 7-70 (handout).
WEEK THREE: RETRO (Michael Gardiner)
Katy Shaw, (2018), 1-23, 105-110, library
Mark Fisher, 鈥榯he metaphysics of crackle鈥�, 2011
Fran莽ois J. Bonnett,Apr猫s la mort / (2021/ 2017), 11-22
Grafton Tanner, (2024), 17-28, 63-76
WEEK FOUR: SHANZHAI (MG)
Byung-Chul Han,Shanzhai: Dekonstruktion auf Chinesisch (2011)/ (2017), 60-78
Anna Greenspan, (2023), 116-149
Xin Wang, 鈥楳achine Envy鈥� (2025)
WEEK SEVEN: ECOCRITICAL THEORY (Emily McGiffin)
Annie Proulx, 鈥�.鈥�
J. Drew Lanham, 鈥溾��
William Cronin, 鈥溾��
Jordan Abel,Un/inhabited(excerpts)
WEEK EIGHT: POSTCOLONIAL ECOCRITICISM (EMc)
Ayi Kwei Armah, (1978).Per Ankh.
Recommended: Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin,鈥淚ntroduction,鈥� In.Routledge, 2015.
WEEK NINE: QUEER THEORY: SEMINAL WORKS (Ross Forman)
Foucault, Michel. 鈥淭he Repressive Hypothesis.鈥� The History of Sexuality, vol. 1: An Introduction. Pantheon Books, 1978. pp.16-35. [library or online at ]
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 鈥淨ueer and Now.鈥� Tendencies. Duke UP, 1999. pp.1-22. [online in library]
Susan Stryker, 鈥淢y Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage,鈥� When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader. Duke UP, 2004. p.134-150. [online in library]
Recommended:
Halberstam, Jack. "Making Trans Bodies," Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability*. University of California Press, 2018. pp. 22-44.
Rubin, Gayle. 鈥淭hinking Sex,鈥� Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader. Duke UP, 2011. pp. 137-181.
WEEK 10: THE USES OF THE QUEER ARCHIVE (RF)
Rodriquez, Jesusa, and Liliane Felipe, 鈥淛uana la larga,鈥� [online video]
Taylor, Diana 鈥淲e Have Always Been Queer,鈥� GLQ, vol 22, no 2, 2006, pp.205鈥�214. [online in library]
Mar铆a Elena Mart铆nez, 鈥淎rchives, Bodies, and Imagination: The Case of Juana Aguilar and Queer Approaches to History, Sexuality, and Politics,鈥� Radical History Review, vol. 120, 2014, pp.159-182 [online in library]
Recommended:
Martinez, Juliana. 鈥淒ressed Like a Man? Of Language, Bodies, and Monsters in the Trial of Enrique/Enriqueta Favez and Its Contemporary Accounts,鈥� Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 26, no. 2, 2017, pp.188-206. [online in library]
Manion, Jen. 鈥淚ntroduction: Extraordinary Lives,鈥� Female Husbands: A Trans History. pp. 1-14.