Posthumanities Research Group

2016 Reading Schedule

All meetings will take place at the Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies (229 Isbister) at
2:30 p.m.

February 4th: Braidottis The Posthuman (Introduction, Chapters 1 and 2)

Braidotti, Rosi. The Posthuman. Cambridge: Polity, 2013. Print.
February 18th: Braidottis The Posthuman (Chapters 3 and 4)
March 3rd: Agential Realism from Barads Meeting The Universe Halfway
Barad, Karen. "Agential Realism: How Material-Discursive Practices Matter." Meeting
The Universe Halfway. Durham: Duke UP, 2007. 133-85. Print.
March 17th: Luciano and Chens Has The Queer Ever Been Human (additional
selection from GLQs Queer Inhumanisms T.B.D.)
Chen, Mel, and Dana Luciano. "Has The Queer Ever Been Human?" GLQ 21.2-3 (2015):
183-207.
March 31st: Butlers Violence, Mourning, Politics
Butler, Judith. "Violence, Mourning, Politics." Precarious Life. London: Verso, 2004.
19-49. Print.