Evolutionary Rhetorics of Science: Open Source Practices in Biosemiotics
Professor Richard Doyle
mobius@psu.edu
Bacterial Rhetorics
Spring 2011
As a theoretical and practical course in the rhetoric of science, this graduate seminar will collectively investigate and test models from scientific discourse for the evolution of rhetorical faculties in humans, animals, plants and bacteria while contextualizing, analyzing and deconstructing contemporary arguments and narratives of evolution. Readings will focus on primary sources regarding the evolution of semiosis (.e.g.Darwin on birds and humans, Nottebohm and Pepperberg on birds, John Lilly on dolphin communicative rationality, Von Frisch on bee semiotics, McClintock on plant intelligence, biosemiotics and bacterial quora, Deleuze and Guattari on orchids, wasps and the Machinic Phylum, Pierre Levy on collective intelligence, etc.). Contemporary evolutionary discourses implicit and explicit in nanotechnology and nanoscience will provide the focus for the final segment of the seminar, where students will get a chance to collectively evolve and share "scenarios" mapping plausible outcomes of current research.
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mobius@... said
at 3:11 pm on Jan 11, 2011
The Syllabus echoes here:
January 12 - Chiasmus, An Introduction to Biosemiotics
19 - Margulis and Sagan, What is Life?
26 -Donald, The Myth of the Isolated Mind. insect rhetoric in the Phaedrus; Von Frisch
February
2 -Donald, Origin of the Modern Mind
9 - Darwin, Descent of Man ; Baudrillard: the Ecstasy of Communication
16 - Nottebohm, Neurology of Birdsong; Collier and Burch - Order from Rhythmic Entrainment; Bateson "the difference that makes a difference"
23 -Kennedy, Comparative Rhetoric
March
2 Pepperberg - The Alex Studies
9 Doyle, Plant Intelligence and Communication. (PDFS) Deleuze and Guattari
16 Levy - Collective Intelligence; Linux
23 Schrodinger and the BioSemiotic Turn in the History of Biology; Fortun
30 Quoroum Sensing and Its Representations: Blood Music
April
6 Keller - The Mirage of Nature and Culture
13Deacon - The Symbolic Species
20 Doyle, Wetwares (PDF)
27 Sources in the History of Biosemiotics - kac, Zagrepsky, Lilly, Pitts http://home.comcast.net/~sharov/biosem/biosem.html
May
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