360.610 Culture, Communications and Technology:
New Research Paradigms in the Digital Age
Permission required. (Cross-listed with History of Science,
Medicine, and Technology.)
Kargon, Anderson
360.641 Subverting the Text
Seminar examines the process of subverting texts. Cases
include Cartesian/Newtonian physics, phlogiston chemistry,
Darwinian biology, Rousseau’s Botanical Letters,
Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopedia, the Munich
1937 exhibit “Degenerate Art” and staging non-theatrical
literature.
Anderson, Kargon
360.653 (H,S) Culture of Reason
This seminar is a close examination of how the changing
understanding of Newtonianism (and its translation
across language, disciplinary, and cultural barriers) transformed
the worlds of arts and letters. It will also discuss
related 18th-century attempts to articulate social, moral,
and political issues relating to gender and class and conclude
with a close reading of the anti-Newtonian movement
and a final discussion of the continuing relevance
of issues of Newtonianism and cultural translation to
modern humanistic research. A full description of the
course, including the proposed syllabus can be found at
http://www.wilda.org/Courses/CourseVault/Grad/Newtonianism.
Taught with 360.453. (Cross-listed with History
of Science and Technology.)
Anderson, Kargon
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