Introduction

Announcements

Module Overview + Downloadable Syllabus

Downloadable Syllabus - 2023/24

Assessment

Assignment 1 (AS1) - due 4 March 2024

Assignment 2 (AS2) – due 17 April 2024

Seminar Participation 1 (SP1) – 2023/24

AS1 Sample Papers

AS1 Guidance

AS2 Guidance &amp; Essay Titles

WEEK 1 - Introduction: Critical Life Studies

Stevenson (2015) Life Beside Itself

Fassin (2018) Life: A Critical User’s Manual‎ - short excerpt

Myers (2015) Conclusion: What Is Life Becoming?‎

Lecture 1 Recording

Lecture 1 Slides

WEEK 2 - BIOLOGY

Kirksey (2021) Living Machines Go Wild

Bharadwaj (2013) Subaltern Biology?

Gilbert (2013) Re-Visioning Local Biologies

Kirksey (2018) Queer Love, Gender Bending Bacteria, and Life after Anthropocene

Ong (2016) Why Singapore Trumps Iceland

Roosth (2018) Designing Life: Experiments in Synthetic Biology - audio-visual lecture

Lecture 2 Recording - Biology

Lecture 2 Slides - Biology

WEEK 3 - BLOOD

Sanabria (2016) Managing the Inside, Out

Podcast on "Blood" from BBC’s Thinking Allowed series

Anagnost (2006) Strange Circulations

Copeman (2013) The Art of Bleeding

Reddy (2008) Good Gifts for the Common Good

Lukasik (2021) Economy of Blood

Bubandt (2004) Genesis in Buli

Love in the Time of Blood Quantum (moving podcast conversation)

Lecture 3 Recording - Blood

Lecture 3 Slides - Blood

WEEK 4 - FERTILITY

Dow (2016) What Gets Left Behind for Future Generations?

Pande (2019) Visa Stamps for Injections

Reeves (2022) Vital Labors

Schurr (2016) From Biopolitics to Bioeconomies

Tober (2019) Romancing the Sperm [Podcast]

Vora (2014) Experimental Sociality and Gestational Surrogacy in the India ART Clinic

Lecture 4 Recording - Fertility

Lecture 4 Slides

Topic 5 - TOXICITY

Kumaki (2022) Suspending Nuclearity

Blanchette (2019) Living Waste and the Labor of Toxic Health on American Factory Farms.

Ntapanta (2021) ‘Lifescaping’ Toxicants

Roberts (2017) What Gets Inside

Shapiro &amp; Kirksey (2017) Chemo-Ethnography

Stawkowski (2016) “I Am a Radioactive Mutant”

Lecture 5 Slides - Toxicity

Lecture 5 Recording - Toxicity

WEEK 7 - VULNERABILITY

Alaimo (2010) The Naked Word: The Trans-Corporeal Ethics of the Protesting Body

Butler (2016) Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance

Diabate (2020) Secularising Genital Cursing and Rhetorical Backlash

Makley (2015) The Sociopolitical Lives of Dead Bodies - CONTENT WARNING!

Phillips (2021) Where Has Vulnerability Gone?

Hedva (2015) My Body Is a Prison So I want to Leave It Like a Mystic, But I Also Love It &amp; Want It to Matter Politically

Lecture 7 Slides - Vulnerability

WEEK 8 - CARING

Taylor (2008) On Recognition, Caring, and Dementia

Buch (2013) Senses of Care: Embodying Inequality and Sustaining Personhood

Dokumaci (2020) People as Affordances

Eales &amp; Peers (2021) Care Haunts, Hurts, Heals

Friedner (2020) Disability, Anonymous Love, and Interwordly Socials

Hunleth (2019) Zambian Children’s Imaginal Caring

Sadruddin (2020) The Care of “Small Things”: Aging and Dignity in Rwanda

Lecture 8 Slides - Care

Lecture 8 Recording - Care

WEEK 9 - BIOSECURITY

Govindrajan (2018) Outsider Monkey, Insider Monkey

Ticktin (2021) Invasive Others - audiovisual

Blanchette (2020) The Herd: Intimate Biosecurity and Posthuman Labor

Green (2022) The Bioeconomics of Domesticating Zoonoses

Kavesh (2023) Welcoming the Foreigner

Kim (2017) Invasive Others and Significant Others

AS2 Guidance & Essay Titles

Shapiro & Kirksey (2017) Chemo-Ethnography

Hedva (2015) My Body Is a Prison So I want to Leave It Like a Mystic, But I Also Love It & Want It to Matter Politically

Eales & Peers (2021) Care Haunts, Hurts, Heals

Puar & Rai (2002) Monster, Terrorist, Fag

Stubber & Kirkman (2016) The Persistence of the Frankenstein Myth

Duggan & Munoz (2009) Hope and Hopelessness: A Dialogue