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Ecstatic Rhetorics:
Laughter, Pathos and Limit Experience

Tu, Thu 6:30 - 9:30
Meeting One: The Way of Ecstastix or, Pan Rhetorical Enterprises

Discussion: What problematic emerges from the continual repetition of the incapacity for description? How might rhetoric offer us a toolbox for experimenting on this site? Keywords: Christian Subjectivity, The Great God Pan is Dead

Readings:  Teresa, On the difference between union and rapture Also: Cruise teresa Site, esp. translator's note

Meeting Two: Seeing Something Different
Burroughs, Ghost of Chance (xerox, also available as remainder from this link)

Meeting Three:
Levinas, "The Rights of Man and the Rights of the Other."
Nancy, The Inoperative Community , "Shattered Love" ( xeroxes)

Meeting Four:
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy(xerox)

Meeting Five:
Hillman, James " An Essay on Pan" (xerox)
Tausk, Victor. "On the Influencing Machine"

Meeting Five:
Dick, Philip K.  Valis

Meeting Six:
Lacan, J. "God and the Joussiance of "The"  Woman"
(under eraure in original), "A Love Letter"(xerox), Reich, Wilhelm. The Function of the Orgasm

Meeting Seven:
Irrigary, L.  "Love Between Us" (Xerox), Deleuze
and Guattari, "How to Turn Yourself into a Body without Organs."

Meeting Eight:
Bataille,G. The Accursed Share

Meeting Nine:
Vomiting Darwin on Turkey Necks ( links)

Meeting Ten:
Canneti, Crowds and Power  (xerox)

Meeting Eleven:
Nietzsche Will to Power ( xerox)
Lilly, John.'Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer

Meeting Twelve:
The Serotonin Club
On Being Stoned
Huxley, doors of perception
Hoffman, Problem Child