The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group is pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And this summer, we plan on finding out what that is.
Up Next: 05/26 – Simmel – Fashion
Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE
Please bring a copy (digital or paper) copy of the reading with you to the meeting.
Location: Yinz Coffee in Bloomfield (Liberty Ave), most Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30pm.
SCHEDULE:
- 05/26 – Simmel – Fashion
- 06/02 – De Beauvoir – “Social Life” in The Second Sex
- 06/09 – Barthes – “Forward” AND “Written Clothing” from The Fashion System
- 06/16 – Benjamin – “Convolute B” from The Arcades Project
- 06/23 – Butler – Gender Trouble (pgs. 163-180)
- 06/30 – Entwistle – “Addressing the Body” from Fashion Theory: A Reader
- 07/07 – Baudrillard – “The Ideological Genesis of Needs/Fetishism and Ideology” AND “Fashion, or the Enchanting Spectacle of the Code” from Fashion Theory: A Reader
- 07/14 – Manning – Dress Becomes Body: Fashioning the Force of Form
Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network 
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