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ENGL 569

Theory

3 units

Winter 2027 · ENGL 569 LEC B1: Theory - Forms of Refusal; M. Litwack · Course preview · Future term

Topics

  • Political refusal
  • Ethics
  • Critical theory

Readings

  • They Do Not Exist (Lays lahum wujud). Directed by Mustafa Abu Ali, 1974.
    required
  • Blanchot, Maurice. “Refusal.” 1958.
    required
  • Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha. The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World. 2024. Excerpts.
    required
  • Agamben. Creation and Anarchy.
    unspecified
  • Badiou. Saint Paul.
    unspecified
  • Benjamin. “Critique of Violence.”
    unspecified
  • Bradley. Anteaesthetics.
    unspecified
  • Derrida. “Whom to Give to (Knowing Not to Know).”
    unspecified
  • Du Bois. John Brown; “The General Strike.”
    unspecified
  • Edelman. Bad Education.
    unspecified
  • Gana. Melancholy Acts.
    unspecified
  • Han. Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition.
    unspecified
  • Hartman. “Redressing the Pained Body”; “The Belly of the World.”
    unspecified
  • Invisible Committee. To Our Friends.
    unspecified
  • Lacan. Seminar VII.
    unspecified
  • Marriott. “On Decadence”; “On Revolutionary Suicide.”
    unspecified
  • McNulty. “The Event of the Letter.”
    unspecified
  • Moten. “Erotics of Fugitivity”; with Harney, All Incomplete.
    unspecified
  • Omar. “Bleeding Forms.”
    unspecified
  • Sacks. Poeticality.
    unspecified
  • Said. “In Defense of Lost Causes.”
    unspecified
  • Shariʿati. “Shahadat.”
    unspecified
  • Simpson. Mohawk Interruptus.
    unspecified
  • Taubes. Political Theology of Paul.
    unspecified
  • Terada. Metaracial.
    unspecified
  • Tronti. “The Strategy of Refusal.”
    unspecified
  • Weinbaum. “Gendering the General Strike.”
    unspecified
Sources