Listed in: Political Science, as POSC-424
Monique Roelofs (Section 01)
This course explores a key concept in contemporary political theory that gives rise to intriguing and far-reaching social and philosophical questions. Modes of address, such as a police hailing or following directions from our cellphones, are forms of signification. People, other living beings, objects, and places direct these modes at each other. Address underpins large-scale political structures, such as transnational organizations, national institutions, technology, publicity, and cosmopolitanism, as well as diminutive everyday interactions like seeing, hearing, and feeling. It informs bodily existence, intimacy, materiality, and social difference. New forms of governance and citizenship are at stake. How does address fulfill these roles? This question provides our point of entry into key texts in twentieth- and twenty-first century political theory. Readings by theorists such as Walter Benjamin, Louis Althusser, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Gloria Anzaldúa, Stuart Hall, Judith Butler, and Dina Al-Kassim.
Requisite: At least one POSC course (200 level or above). Limited to 18 students. Not open to first-year students. Fall semester. Karl Loewenstein Fellow Roelofs
Section 01
Tu 01:00 PM - 03:45 PM WEBS 215
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things | Duke University Press | Jane Bennett | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction | Vintage | Michel Foucault | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Public things : democracy in disrepair | Fordham University Press | Bonnie Honig | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Persons and Things | Harvard University Press | Barbara Johnson | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The epistemology of resistance : gender and racial oppression, epistemic injustice, and resistant imaginations | Oxford University Press | Jose Medina | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.