Syllabus + Introductions
Ilya Prigogine on Chaos and Art
Berardi, Bifo. “Unheimlich: The Spiral of Chaos and the Cognitive Automaton.” E-Flux Journal. March 2023.
Prigogyne, Ilya and Isabelle Stengers. Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature. 1984.
Maturana, Humberto & Francisco Varela. The Tree of Knowledge. Foreword, Preface, Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4. 1987.
Medina, Eden. Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile. 2011.
Morozov, Evgeny. Santiago Boys, podcast. 2023.
Von Foerster, Heinz. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth has No Name 2014.
Curtis, Adam. All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace. Three-part film. 2011.
Holmes, Brian. "Count to Three." 2016.
Whitehead, Alfred North. Modes of Thought. 1938.
Gaskill, Nicholas and A.J. Novak, "An Adventure in Thought", in The Lure of Whitehead. 2014.
Manning, Erin. The Minor Gesture. 2014.
Halewood, Michael. "The Order of Nature and the Creation of Societies", in The Lure of Whitehead, 2014.
Whitehead, Alfred North. Modes of Thought. 1938.
Ramos, Ana. "Standing in the Midst", in Erin Manning's Imperatives for Education Research. 2022.
Stengers, Isabelle. "Gaia, the Urgency to Think (and Feel)." 2014.
Sakrison, Asa. "Rowboat Phenomenology" in the Slow Spatial Reader, 2021.
Guattari, Felix. "I Am God Most of the Time," in Chaosophy. 1995.
Clark, Tim. "A Whiteheadian Chaosmos?" in Whitehead, Deleuze, Bergson. 2009.
Instructor planned absence. Please watch two films:
Pi by Darren Aronofsky
Post Tenebras Lux by Carlos Reygadas. Higher-resolution version, no subtitles.
Thomas, Zach. "Carlos Reygadas' Post Tenebras Lux: Towards a Cinema of Experience," in The Anthropocene Laboratory. 2023.
Johnson, Garrett Laroy. "Post Tenebras Lux," in The Anthropocene Laboratory. 2023.
Glissant, Eduardo. Poetics of Relation, "Theories". University of Michigan Press, 2009.
Glissant, Eduardo. Poetics of Relation, "Generalization". University of Michigan Press, 2009.
Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. "From Chaos to Brain" in What is Philosophy? 1991.
Young, Eugene B. Et al. "Chaos", "Chaosmosis", and "Chaosophy" in the Deleuze and Guattari Dictionary. 2013.
[instructor out of town]
Guattari, Felix. "Schizoid Chaosmosis" in Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm. 1992.
Holmes, Brian. Guattari's Schizoanalytic Cartographies: Or, The Pathic Core at the Heart of Cybernetics.
Clarke, Bruce. Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene, 2020.
(Thanksgiving break, no class)
Critique week, no class
Final project critiques
