Date

Readings Discussed

Assignment Due

Wk. 1

Intro. to the Cyborg Body

 

M 5/19/03

Introduction and Exercise

In-Class Exercise

T 5/20/03

Donna Haraway, “Cyborg Manifesto” from Course pack (CP)

None

W 5/21/03

HMT pp. 3-106 & Anne Balsamo, “Reading Cyborgs, Writing Feminism” from CP

None

Th 5/22/03

C&W

None

F 5/23/03

Reading and Writing Day

None

Wk. 2

Jack In and Hold On

 

M 5/26/03

Memorial Day- No Class

None

T 5/27/03

HMT pp. 109-211

Response 1 Due

W 5/28/03

HMT pp. 212-311 & Anne Balsamo, “Public Pregnancies and Cultural Narratives of Surveillance” from CP

None

Th 5/29/03

Neuromancer pp. 3-85 and  A. R. (Sandy) Stone, “Collective Structures” from CP

None

F 5/30/03

Neuromancer pp. 87-174

None

Wk. 3

A New Breed

 

M 6/02/03

Neuromancer pp. 175-271 and Anne Balsamo, “The Virtual Body in Cyberspace” from CP

Response 2 and Reading Journal Due

T 6/03/03

QoA pp. 3-110 and Anne Balsamo’s “On the Cutting Edge”

None

W 6/04/03

QoA pp.110-215

None

Th 6/05/03

QoA pp. 216-301

None

F 6/06/03

Reading and Writing Day

None

Wk. 4

Lights, Camera, Cyborgs!!

 

M 6/09/03

QoA pp. 305-417 and Mark Oehlert’s “From Captain America to Wolverine” from CP

Response 3 Due

T 6/10/03

Film- Robocop

None

W 6/11/03

Cynthia Fuchs’ “Death is Irrelevant” from CP

None

Th 6/12/03

Film- Twilight of the Golds

None

F 6/13/03

Adele Clarke’s “Modernity, Postmodernity, & Reproductive Processes ca. 1890-1990 or, ‘Mommy, Where Do Cyborgs Come From?’” from CP

Final Paper and Reading Journal Due