Schedule

08/30/24 Week 1

Syllabus + Introductions

"Chaos" Documentary

Ilya Prigogine on Chaos and Art

09/6/24 Week 2

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.

• Foreward: Science and Change
• Preface: Man's New Dialogie with Nature
• Introduction: A Challenge to Science

09/13/24 Week 3

Maturana, Humberto & Francisco Varela. The Tree of Knowledge. Foreword, Preface, Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4. 1987.

optional

Medina, Eden. Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile. 2011.

Morozov, Evgeny. Santiago Boys, podcast. 2023.

09/20/24 Week 4

Von Foerster, Heinz. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth has No Name 2014.

• Forwards
• First Day: Building Blocks, Observers, Emergence, Trivial Machines
• Fifth Day: Communicating, Talking, Thinking, Falling
• Sixth Day: Experiences, Heuristics, Plans, Futures
• Seventh Day: Rest, Rest, Rest
• Epilogue in Heaven

Additional

Curtis, Adam. All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace. Three-part film. 2011.

Holmes, Brian. "Count to Three." 2016.

09/27/24 Week 5

Whitehead, Alfred North. Modes of Thought. 1938.

• Importance
• Expression

Gaskill, Nicholas and A.J. Novak, "An Adventure in Thought", in The Lure of Whitehead. 2014.

Additional

Manning, Erin. The Minor Gesture. 2014.

Halewood, Michael. "The Order of Nature and the Creation of Societies", in The Lure of Whitehead, 2014.

10/04/24 Week 6

Whitehead, Alfred North. Modes of Thought. 1938.

• Understanding
• Perspective
• Forms of Process

Additional

Ramos, Ana. "Standing in the Midst", in Erin Manning's Imperatives for Education Research. 2022.

10/11/24 Week 7

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.

10/18/24 Week 8

Instructor planned absence. Please watch two films:

• Pi by Darren Aronofsky
• Post Tenebres Lux by Carlos Reygadas

(please source on your own. we may be able to add later in the week but don't count on it.)

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.

10/25/24 Week 9

Glissant, Eduardo. Poetics of Relation, "Theories". University of Michigan Press, 2009.

11/01/24 Week 10

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.

Guattari, Felix. "Schizoid Chaosmosis" in Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm. 1992.

11/08/24 Week 11

Dodds, Joseph. Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos: Complexity Theory, Deleuze, Guattari and Psychoanalysis for a Climate in Crisis. 2012.

Grosz, Elizabeth. "Chaos. Cosmos, Territory, Architecture" in Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth. 2008.

11/15/24 Week 12

Munster, Anna. An Aesthetia of Networks: Conjunctive Experience in Art and Technology. 2013.

Parisi, Luciana. Contagious Architectures: Computation, Aesthetics, and Space. 2022. [selections forthcoming]

11/22/24 Week 13

Clarke, Bruce. Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene, 2020.

Holmes, Brian. Guattari's Schizoanalytic Cartographies: Or, The Pathic Core at the Heart of Cybernetics.

11/29/24 Week 14

(Thanksgiving break, no class)

12/06/24 Week 15

Critique week, no class

12/13/24 Week 16

Final project critiques