2012-2013 DVSS Schedule
complete schedule for 2012-2013 distinguished visiting scholar series
AVERY GORDON
Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Visiting Faculty at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Public Lecture
the remains of a prison: fugitive knowledge on the wings of red arrows
Wednesday, March 13
Devlin 101
5:00-7:00 p.m.
*Seminar
work: a view from the utopian margins
Thursday, March 14
12:00 p.m.
*Seminar Readings
Avery F. Gordon and Ines Schaber. Audio texts and captions for The Workhouse: Room 2. available online
Jacques Rancière, Preface to the new Indian edition of The Nights of Labor (2009). *This is quite short but his best introduction to the work. I suggest reading it first. available online
Jacques Rancière, The Nights of Labor: The Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth Century France, trans. John Drury. Temple University Press (1981): Author’s Preface; Chapter 1 (“The Gate of Hell”).
Tiqqun, Comment faire? (How is it to be done?) (2001). available online
Optional
Hakim Bey. Part 3 of The Temporary Autonomous Zone (1985, 1991). available online
General DVSS Information
Map of BC campus. (Parking lot for visitors is in section D3 of map.)
Contact the Sociology Department.