| Week | Date | Reading | Writing |
| 1 | Jan 15 | Intro | |
| Jan 17 | Borges: "Tlon," & "Pierre
Menard" Hassan, "Toward a Concept of Postmodernism" Benjamin, "Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" |
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| 2 | Jan 23 | Borges: "Garden of Forking Paths,"
"Lottery in Babylon," "Library of Babel,"& "Emma Zunz" Benjamin |
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| Jan 25 | Borges: "The Circular Ruins"
& "The Immortal" Benjamin (Bring reading notes!) |
Speculative Response #1 by 5pm, Friday |
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| 3 | Jan 30 | Brunner: "Basic Straining Manual" Krause: First 5 pgs (bring reading notes!) |
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| Feb 1 | Brunner: "The Delphic Coracle" Krause: finish(bring reading notes!) |
Post a brief response to someone's Spec #1 | |
| 4 | Feb 6 | Brunner: "Splicing the Brain Race" | |
| Feb 8 | Russ: Part One-Three | Spec #2 by 5pm, Friday |
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| 5 | Feb 13 | Russ: Through Part Seven | |
| Feb 15 | Russ: Through Part Nine Selections from How To Suppress Women's Writing |
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| 6 | Feb 20 | Delany: Preface, Appendix, and "Tale of Gorgik" | |
| Feb 22 | Delany: "Tale of Old Venn" | Spec #3, Friday, by 5pm | |
| 7 | Feb 27 | Delany: Tales of "Small Sarg" & "Potters & Dragons" | |
| Feb 29 | Delany: Tale of "Dragons &
Dreamers" Pavic: Preliminary Notes & Appendix I |
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| 8 | Mar 5 | Pavic: The Green Book | |
| Mar 7 | Pavic: Follow threads begun in the
Green Book into the Yellow Book; get a start on the Foucault handout. Meet in the WCIC |
Bring notes (Pavic, Foucault), plus 2nd draft of precis, on disk | |
| 9 | Mar 12 | SPRING BREAK ! | |
| Mar 14 | SPRING BREAK ! | ||
| 10 | Mar 19 | Pavic: The Red Book Foucault |
AnnoBib
Entries On disk, in class |
| Mar 21 | READING DAY | Prof's away Spec #4 by Friday, 5pm! |
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| 11 | Mar 26 | Calvino: Mr. Palomar's Vacation | |
| Mar 28 | Calvino: Mr. Palomar in the City | ||
| 12 | Apr 2 | Calvino: The Silences of Mr. Palomar | Precises, draft # 3 |
| Apr 4 | Carter: "A Souvenir of Japan"; "The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter" |
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| 13 | Apr 9 | Carter: Through "Flesh and the Mirror" | |
| Apr 11 | Carter: Through "Elegy for a Freelance" & Afterword | Spec #5 by Friday, 5pm! | |
| 14 | Apr 16 | Piercy: Through chp 19 | |
| Apr 18 | Piercy: Through chp 24; Haraway (handout) |
Presenting: Drew; David; Jenn | |
| 15 | Apr 23 | Piercy: Through chp 40 | Presenting: Amanda; Jason B. |
| Apr 25 | Piercy: finish | Presenting: Stacey; Marc; Jason T. | |
| 16 | Apr 30 | Sargent: Butler & Cadigan | Presenting: Joyce; Lauren; Ash; David |
| 17 | Final | Official time: 1:05-3:05pm, Saturday, May 4th | Actual due date: 5pm, Monday, May 6th |