ENGL 4991

ENGL 4991

Course information provided by the 2018-2019 Catalog.

In contemporary scholarship on race, temporality mediates the relationship between historicity and human difference by way of alignments and affiliations between time and interiority; immediacy and transparency; and complementarily, exteriority and opacity. In contrast to its popular denotations, race scholarship thus recognizes "mediation" as antagonistic, rather than conciliatory. We map the discursive lines shaping contemporary scholarship which grasps for the philosophical grounds of race and racialization at the infrastructural levels of time, space, and ontology. In tandem, we consider media that reflect and engage questions raised by the antagonistic mediation of racial difference. Readings may include works by Denise Ferreira da Silva, Sylvia Wynter, David Marriott, Fred Moten, Nahum Dimitri Chandler, David Llloyd, Michelle Wright, Calvin Warren, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida. 


Permission Note Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

Distribution Category (CA-AS)

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4351COML 6351

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18451 ENGL 4991   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person