a full syllabus will be provided in the first week of term.

Block I The Forces of Affect and Embodiment

Block II Flesh and Signification

Block III Affective Knowing through Touch, Sound and Smell

Block IV Debility, Slow Death, Hospitality

Compulsory literature:

KIRBY, Vicki. Judith Butler: Live Theory. Chapter: “Gender, Sexuality, Performance”. London: Continuum. ISBN: 978-0826462930.

LIVINGSTON, Julie. Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana. Chapter: “Family Matter and Money Matters”. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN: 978-0253346377.

MUNOZ, Jose Esteban (2007) Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. Chapter: “A Jete through the Window”. New York: NYU Press. ISBN: 978-1479874569.

STRYKER, Susan. My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage. Kvinder, Kon & Forskning 3-4, 2011 [1994].

Elective literature:

BERLANT, Lauren and STEWART, Kathleen. The Hundreds. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1478002888.

CAMPT, Tina. Listening to Images. Chapter: “Quiet Soundings: The Grammar of Black Futurity”, 2017. ISBN: 978-0822362708.

HALBERSTAM, Jack. Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-4780-1108-8

HARTMAN, Saidiya, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. New York: WW Norton. ISBN: 978-0393357622.