What are you? Who constitutes you? How do you define yourself? Are you a human, an individual, a multitude, a post-human, a multiplicity? A cyborg, a fancy animal, a queer creature? This course offers thoughtful questions and methodologies of becoming that can infuse your own art practice. We will closely examine and discuss emergent theoretical and artistic approaches to subjectivity/the self that are expansive and experimental. We will read texts and consider artworks on intersubjectivity, intra-action, desire, new materialism, the irreconcilable, and the synthetic, traversing new imaginings of how we can inhabit the self, the planet, and the world. Through lectures and discussions, we will attend carefully and caringly to events – from psychoanalyst Pierre-Félix Guattari’s “Chaosmosis,” to the end of the intellectual love affair between Unangax̂ Indigenous scholar Eve Tuck and French theorist Gilles Deleuze, to the ferocity of trans-public intellectual Bayo Akomolafe’s fabulations giving manifold voices to the coronavirus pandemic. Assignments will include experimental writing, presentations, and artworks that center on other ways of being and doing in the only space between the no longer and the not yet: the wildly wondrous, diverse, and multipolar present. History and Theory courses are designed to hone students' critical skills through intensive reading and writing assignments. Recent course topics have included gender, ethics, disease, aesthetics, and discourse on global art movements of the past 50 years.

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