This reading group aims to put together a variety of texts that discuss the relationships between (a) writing, text and the idea of «language», (b) literacy, the print vernacular and its empowering/disempowering implications for linguistic and literary communities, (c) print cultures in the creation of utopian/dystopian drives, as well as different theories surrounding liberty and subjection/control of linguistic forms.
SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS
FALL 2018
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Friday, September 28th. 4pm @ 209 Scheide Caldwell House
On Prose Style & Its Communities: James Paul Gee.
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Friday, October 19th. 4pm @ 209 Scheide Caldwell House
The Written-Spoken / The Spoken-Written: Walter J. Ong vs. Jacques Derrida.
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Friday, November 16th. 4pm @ 209 Scheide Caldwell House
Popular Appropriation & Emancipation. Roger Chartier + Jacques Ranciere + Giorgio Agamben
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Friday, November 30th. 4pm @ 209 Scheide Caldwell House
The Violence of Language: Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Contacts:
Diego Baena
Paula Perez-Rodriguez