May 2:
Introduction, and Judith Butler’s “Burning Acts—Injurious Speech” in Parker & Sedgwick (eds.) Performativity and Performance, Cathy Caruth’s “Traumatic Awakenings” in Andrew Parker and Eve Sedgwick (eds.) Performativity and Performance (London: Routledge, 1995).
May 9:
Derek Murray—Identity, Representation, Art Practice
Hal Foster, “The Artist as Ethnographer,” in The Return of the Real. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1996.
Kristeva on the abject, Foster on the Real. [SAVE FOR LATER: Žižek on Evil, and Nobody… ]