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.
Ilya Prigogine on Chaos and Art
Prigogyne, Ilya and Isabelle Stengers. Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature. 1984.
Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. 1987.
Adkins, Taylor and Cooper Cherry. Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour. "Order out of Chaos", podcast. 2026
Maturana, Humberto & Francisco Varela. The Tree of Knowledge. Foreword, Preface, Chapters 1 and 2. 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. Nocek, "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.
TBD.
Midterm Presentations: Luring Theory Through Practice
Glissant, Eduardo. Poetics of Relation, "Theories". 2009.
Guest: Zoe Butler
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.
Dufourtmantelle, Anna. In Praise of Risk, selections. 2019.
Fields, Noa Michaela. E, selections. 2025.
Guest: Noa Michaela Fields
Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. "From Chaos to the Brain" in What is Philosophy? 1991.
De Landa, Manuel. Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy. 2004.
Young, Eugene B. Et al. "Chaos", "Chaosmosis", and "Chaosophy" in the Deleuze and Guattari Dictionary. 2013.
Holmes, Brian. Guattari's Schizoanalytic Cartographies: Or, The Pathic Core at the Heart of Cybernetics.
Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. "Rhizome". A Thousand Plateaus. 1980.
Kronic, Maya B. and Amy Ireland. Introduction + "Kwaizome" pgs. 3-7 + End Notes pgs. 49-70. Cute Accelerationism. 2024.
Optional:
Interview w. Maya B. Kronic and Amy Ireland. "Is Accelerationism the Same Thing As Falling in Love?". 2025.
(Thanksgiving break, no class)
Critique week, no class
Final Project: Chaosmotic Experimentations