GHIS 5115 -

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The New School

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Historical Roots of a "Fiasco": Iraq Not offered 2008-09. Three credits. Eli Zaretsky The American invasion of Iraq has been described as a fiasco. In Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Thomas E. Rick supports this view by characterizing the administration's actions as the errors or bad intentions of the political right: e.g., the neoconservatives and the cabal around Bush. By contrast, this course explores the weaknesses and failures of American liberalism and the political left in providing the opening for the Bush presidency. The model for this approach is Marx's explanation (in his Eighteenth Brumaire) of Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat in 1851. Otherreadings include both long-term critiques of American liberalism, such as those by Richard Slotkin and Patricia Seed, and more focused studies of the post-1989 period. Cross-listed as LHIS 4568 and GSOC 5044. 60 GHI S 5116 and Time, Life, and Matter: Topics in the Histories of Science, Technology, and Media Spring 2009. Three credits. Orit Halpern This course will be a preliminary survey of the latest methodological and theoretical approaches in science and media studies as they intersect with critical history and historiography. Topics to be covered will include histories of subjectivity, race, and gender in relationship to the life and information sciences; post-humanism; the production of "nature" and "culture" categories of analysis and structures for the production of historical time; and histories of representation and perception. Students read texts from science, history and philosophy of science, and media studies. Readings may include: Gilles Deleuze, Georges Canguilhem, Bruno Latour, Michel Foucault, Fredrich Kittler, Hayden White, William James, Henri Bergson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Grosz, Donna Haraway, and others. Cross-listed with Sociology, GSOC 5050.

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3.00

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www.newschool.edu

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(212) 229-5600

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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