Stuart Parker delivers a second guest lecture on canonicity, social reproduction and other key sociological ideas in the Dune series.

Leisl Westfall summarizes the last two Dune books and sets up for seeing gender as a central heuristic for interpreting the series.

Leisl Westfall continues our synopsis of the series with God Emperor of Dune.

In this episode, Leisl Westfall begins her synopsis of the series with commentary.

Stuart Parker delivers a guest lecture on the intellectual context into which Dune emerged in 1965 and speaks to the limitations of the human sciences

Leisl Westfall introduces the course and its objectives. 

We conclude the course with two epilogues, one from the Yucatan and one from Utah. This is the one class co-lectured by Stuart and Jacob.

In the penultimate lecture we do some theorizing about what utopias are and are not. Brace for class participation throughout!

This episode is actually missing. This is just a placeholder in anticipation of its replacement.

We spend a class setting up the social and economic conditions that would give rise to the mass of utopian projects in 1970s Anglo America.