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1 SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION SPECIAL TOPICS 488-4 The Body, Technology and Knowledge Dr. Kirsten McAllister Spring 2005 Office: RCB 6147 HC Campus Room 1415, Mon. 3:30-7:20PM; Phone: 604-268-6917 Office Hours: Mon. 2:30-3:20PM or by appt. Email: [email protected] Phone during office hours 604-291-5181 Add Vivian Sobhcha Modernism/Modernity 4.3 (1997) 19-43 Access provided by Simon Fraser University Dreams of Metallized Flesh: Futurism and the Masculine Body Christine Poggi Constructing the Body Physiologic ENGC 639 - Interpretative Methods in Media Prof. Cornelius Borck Winter Term 2005 Thursdays 10:05 am-12:55 pm ARTS W-5 Contact Information Office hours: Thursdays 14:00 to 15:00, in room W-265. Telephone: 398-2893 / 398-4995. Email: [email protected] Course Outline This course offers an intensive analysis of the cultural history of the scientific construction of the human body. Starting with LaMettrie’s machine theory and the so-called laboratory revolution in the life sciences, it will look at various sites participating at the production of the human body in modernity, up to recent discourses on cyborgs, cyberpsychology, and posthumanism. Along this trajectory, the seminar will investigate a variety of thematic topics as well as methodological issues, including spaces of 2 representation, instruments and mediating technologies, industrialization, Taylorism, prostheses, etc. Each session of the seminar will concentrate on a single topic, typically by combining some source materials with a major piece of scholarship and further literature. On the Course This small seminar-style class will be conducted mainly in an interactive discussion format. Classes will be student-led, and it is crucial that students do the readings ahead of time and attend class regularly. Furthermore, students are encouraged to share their interests in relation to this seminar with the group and to suggest further material for the discussions. The readings listed in this syllabus are provisional in this respect; further readings may be added in agreement with the participants along the way. Part of the course grade, as detailed below, will depend upon regular class participation. The essential readings for this course will be put on reserve in the respective libraries on campus; some book chapters and most articles will be available in the form of a course pack that can be purchased at the McGill Bookstore. Course Requirements Students will be required to write a term paper (of about 7000 words, total) on a topic related to the course. This paper will count for 50 per cent of the final grade. Students should identify their topic early in the course and discuss it with me. Class participation will count for another 50 per cent. Participation includes attendance, performance of assigned tasks, and contributions to discussions. One assignment will consist in an introduction (15 minutes) to one of the major readings of the session. McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see http://www.mcgill.ca/integrity for more information). Background Reading Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, or, the modern prometheus; edited by D.L. Macdonald, K.D. Scherf. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press 1994. (or any other edition) Lois N. Magner: A history of the life sciences. 2nd Edition, New York: Marcel Dekker 1994. [Chapter 6: Physiology, pp. 225-259.] Michel Feher (ed.): Fragments for a History of the Human Body, 3 vols. New York: Zone Books 1989. Anson Rabinbach: The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press 1990. Mark Seltzer: Bodies and machines. New York: Routledge 1992. Jonathan Crary & Sanford Kwinter (eds.): Incorporations. New York: Zone Books 1992. David Wills: Prosthesis. Stanford: Stanford University Press 1995. The cyborg handbook, edited by Chris Hables Gray. London: Routledge 1995. N. Katherine Hayles: How we became posthuman : virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1999. Don Ihde: Bodies in Technology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2002. Syllabus 6 January 2005 Starting by mixing past and present: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein vis-à-vis technologically assisted reproduction Source Text: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein: complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives; edited by Johanna M. Smith. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000. Source Text: Janet Isaacs Ashford: Natural Love. In: Cyborg babies: from techno-sex to techno-tots (edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd & Joseph Dumit). London: Routledge 1998, pp. 90-102. Further Reading: Marilyn Butler: Frankenstein and radical science. In: Making humans: complete texts with introduction, historical contexts, critical essays (edited by Judith Wilt). Boston: Houghton Mifflin 2003, pp. 307-319. Further Reading: Bruno Latour: On the partial existence of existing and nonexisting objects. In: Biographies of Scientific Objects (edited by Lorraine Daston). Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2000, pp. 247-269. 13 January 2005 Cartesianism and the machine theory of the body 3 Source text: Julien Offray de La Mettrie: Machine man. In: Machine man and other writings; translated and edited by Ann Thomson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996, pp. 1-39. Source text: Julien Offray de La Mettrie: L'homme machine. Leyde: De l'imp. d'E. Luzac, fils, 1748. Book assignment: Kathleen Wellman: La Mettrie: medicine, philosophy, and enlightenment. Durham: Duke University Press 1992. Required reading: Georges Canguilhem: From the social to the vital. In: The normal and the pathological; translated by Carolyn R. Fawcett in collaboration with Robert S. Cohen. New York: Zone Books 1991, pp. 237-256. Required reading: Georges Canguilhem: Machine and organism. In: Incorporations (edited by Jonathan Crary & Sanford Kwinter). New York: Zone Books 1992, pp. 45-69. Required reading: Georges Canguilhem: The role of epistemology in contemporary history of science. In: Ideology and rationality in the history of the life sciences; translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988, pp. 1-23. Further reading: Sergio Moravia: From homme machine to homme sensible: changing eighteenth-century models of man’s image. Journal of the History of Ideas 39: 45-60, 1978. 20 January 2005 Experimental physiology and the laboratory revolution Source text: Claude Bernard: An introduction to the study of experimental medicine; translated by Henry Copley Greene, with an introduction by Lawrence J. Henderson. New York: The Macmillan company 1927. [Part one, chapter I, pp. 5-26; part two, chapter 1, pp. 59-86] Book assignment: Georges Canguilhem: The normal and the pathological. Translated by Carolyn R. Fawcett in collaboration with Robert S. Cohen. New York: Zone Books 1989. Required reading: Timothy Lenoir: Laboratories, medicine and public life in Germany, 1830-1849: ideological roots of the institutional revolution. In: The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine (edited by Andrew Cunningham & Perry Williams). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1992, pp. 14-71. Required reading: Ian Hacking: The self-vindication of the laboratory sciences. In: Science as Culture and Practice (edited by Andrew Pickering). Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1992, pp. 29-64. Required reading: Bruno Latour: Give me a laboratory and I will raise the world. In: Science observed: perspectives on the social study of science (edited by Karin D. Knorr-Cetina & Michael Mulkay). London: Sage 1983, pp. 141-170. Further reading: Georges Canguilhem: Théorie et technique de l’expérimentation chez Claude Bernard. In: Études d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences. Paris: Librarie philosophique J. Vrin 1968, pp. 143-155. 27 January 2005 Spaces of time: the graphic method and chronophotography Source text: Etienne-Jules Marey: La méthode graphique dans les sciences expérimentales et principalement en physiologie et en médecine. 2. Edition Paris: Masson 1885. [Preface] Source text: Etienne-Jules Marey: Movement; translated from the French by Eric Pritchard. New York 1895. [Chapters VIII: Human movements: from the point of view of mechanics, and IX: Certain movements in man: from the point of view of dynamics, pp. 126- 168.] Source text: Eadweard Muybridge: The human figure in motion. Introd. by Robert Taft. New York: Dover 1955. Book assignment: Marta Braun: Picturing time: the work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904). Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1992. Book assignment: François Dagognet: Etienne-Jules Marey: a passion for the trace; translated by Robert Galeta with Jeanine Herman. New York: Zone Books 1992. Required reading: Soraya de Chadarevian: Graphical method and discipline: self-recording instruments in nineteenth-century physiology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 24: 267-291, 1993. (available online) Required reading: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger: Experimental systems, graphematic spaces. In: Inscribing Science : Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication (edited by Timothy Lenoir). Stanford: Stanford University Press 1998, pp. 285-303. 4 Further reading: Mary Ann Doane: Temporality, storage, legibility: Freud, Mearey, and the cinema. In: Endless night: cinema and psychoanalysis, parallel histories (edited by Janet Bergstrom). Berkeley:
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