Trans( )infinities:
aesthetics, performance and interventions
Section 202
Room: VAF
366
Monday: 3:00p - 5:50p
Professor: Ricardo Dominguez
Email: rrdominguez@ucsd.edu
Office Hours: Monday 1pm to 2pm (CAL
IT2/Atkinson Hall 2nd fl - 2501)
Class Description:
Trans( )infinities in
this class will be imagined as an (empty set) of potential aesthetic practices
that move between, through, across and beyond the post of the post-contemporary
by transfixing on the loanwords that can double bond/double stage the
effects/affects of parallel dimensions touching one another intimately/extimately: trans(
)aesthetics touching demanding infinities; trans( )coding dreaminng trans( )empirical; speculative realism drinking
trans( )borders; trans( )versal
subjects screaming trans( )performatives. The (empty set) transmitting us from Kant to
Baudrillard to Whitehead to Grosz to D&G to Antonioni to Teresa Margolles
to border disturbances to trans( )media exploits beyond code to our own
trans( )valuations that
always/already trans (
)queer our gestures. What
can come from the imagined excesses of trans( )infinities as practices to
create lures of feeling that can only become real hitting the hard ground of
the streets that have been left behind in our forgotten futures. Certainly an
unwise move – but who said we would have to be wise between our own
(empty sets).
Grading Policies
Final Grade Evaluation:
50% Attendance and Participation
50% Project/Paper presentation
You will be expected to attend every
class. If you have more than 2 unexcused absences, your final grade will drop
1/2 a letter for every additional unexcused absence.
Two unexcused lateness will be considered an absence.
Readings:
Infinitely Demanding: Ethics
of Commitment, Politics of Resistance by Simon Critchley (2008
paperback edition)
The Exploit: A Theory of
Networks by
Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker (2007 paperback edition)
The rest
will be on-line materials.
Class
Diagram:
March 29thth - Introduction and Film
April 5th – Trans( )aesthetics
Part I: Critique of
Aesthetic Judgment
Book I. Analytic of the
Beautiful.
by Immanuel Kant
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kant/immanuel/k16j/
- section1
Simulation and Transaesthetics: Towards the Vanishing Point of Art1
by Jean Baudrillard
http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-5_2/v5-2-jean-baudrillard2.html
April 12thth
– trans(
)lures
Without
Criteria
By
Steven Shaviro
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/without.pdf
Chaos,
Territory and Art
by Elizabeth Grosz
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/chaos.pdf
April 19th
– trans (
)performatives
Electronic Disturbance (Read Chapters 2, 4 and 6)
By
Critical Art Ensemble
http://www.critical-art.net/books/ted/index.html
Digital
Zapatistas
By Jill
Lane
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/DigitalZapatistas.pdf
April 26th
– trans(
)demands
Infinitely Demanding (Book)
May 3rd
– trans (
)races
Toward a Global Idea of Race by Denise Ferreira da Silva (2007)
(Introduction)
http://books.google.com/books?lr=&q=Toward+a+Global+Idea+of+Race
May 10th
– trans(
)borders
Muerte Sin Fin: Teresa Margolles' Gendered States
of Exception
By Amy
Sara Carroll
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/sinfin.pdf
The
Homoerotics of Immigration Control
http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/immigration/brady_01.htm
Transborder Immigrant Tool
http://bang.calit2.net/xborder
May 17th
– trans(
)codes
The Exploit: A Theory of
Networks (Book)
What
is Queer Technology? By Zach Blas
http://users.design.ucla.edu/~zblas/writing/whatisqueertechnology_zachblas_2006.pdf
May 24th
– trans(
)codes
The Exploit: A Theory of
Networks
(continued)
Micha Cárdenas "Becoming Dragon:
A Transversal Technology Study"
http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=639
May 31st
– Presentations
June 7th
– Presentations
OTHER
SUGGESTED READINGS – DURING THE CLASS.
This documentary on border practices (a "minor simulation") can perhaps be framed as a type of trans( )aesthetic gesture of trans( )versal subjects.
Adrian Piper's "Kants Xenophobia"
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/AdrianPiperKantsXenophobia.pdf
S.Shaviro's "Pulses of Emotion"
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/PulsesofEmotion.pdf
B. Reynolds "Transversal Subjects"
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/transversalsubjects.pdf
Daniel W. Smith "Deleuze and the Question of Desire: Toward An Immanent Theory of Ethics"
Daniel W. Smith