Syllabus for hypothetical reading group of Winter 2021.
Week 1-2: Fashion and Psychoanalysis
Rikky Byrd, “On the ‘Black Designer’”
Week 3-4: The Subject of Fashion
Week 4-5: The Sex Which is Not Uniform
Francisco J. Galarte, “The Crowns of Stuzo Clothing”
Week 6-7: The Libidinal Economy of Decadence
David Marriott, “On Decadence: Bling Bling”
Week 8-9: Anti-Philosophy, Anti-Fashion, Anti-Blackness
Hortense Spillers, “All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother”
Week 10-11: The Plague of Fantasy and Social Death
Mumble Theory 