Week 2 + Week 3

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Week 2★Oct 11th    WHAT IS CRITICAL THEORY?
(changed to Oct 28th Monday, 10:30am Venue TBA)

Required Reading:
Keucheyan, R. (2013) ‘Introduction’ & ‘the Defeat of Critical Thinking (1977-1993)’. The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today. Translated by G. Elliott. London & New York: Verso.pp.1-73 [the book can be downloaded here] 
NOTE: pls read the right pages; PW is needed; ask Ran for it.

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Week 3★Oct 18th    ASIA AS METHOD+ Screening (International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Dir. KOBAYASHI Masaki, 1983)

Required Reading:
Chen, K.-H. (2010) ‘Introduction’ (pp.1-16) & ‘Chapter 5’ (pp. 211-257) Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization. Durham and London: Duke University Press. doi: 10.1192/bjp.112.483.211-a.
NOTE: pls read the right pages; PW is needed; ask Ran for it.





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