Schedule

08/29/25 Week 1

Syllabus + Introductions

Isabelle Stengers. Introduction to Making Sense in Common, excerpt. 2025.

Interview with Brian Massumi and Erin Manning, with Adam Nocek and Stacey Moran. "3Ecologies Project." First question and answers. 2022.

09/5/25 Week 2

"Chaos" Documentary

Ilya Prigogine on Chaos and Art

Prigogyne, Ilya and Isabelle Stengers. Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature. 1984.

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

09/12/25 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.

09/19/25 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.

09/26/25 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.

10/03/25 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.

10/10/25 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.

10/17/25 Week 8

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.

10/24/25 Week 9

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

10/31/25 Week 10

Instructor absent, sub or other programming.

11/07/25 Week 11

Grosz, Elizabeth. Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth. Duke University Press. 2008.

• Introduction
• Chapter One

11/14/25 Week 12

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.

11/21/25 Week 13

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

11/28/25 Week 14

(Thanksgiving break, no class)

12/05/25 Week 15

Critique week, no class

12/12/25 Week 16

Final project showings