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GWS182 PO - Feminist and Queer Materialisms: Ecologies of Affect, Feeling and Sensation

When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
Instructor(s): A. Bahng; K. Tompkins
Credit: 1

This course will take up recent developments in political and cultural theory that engage the changing planetary and political landscape via an inquiry into the materiality of the world. We will read recent work in affect theory, object-oriented ontology and inquire into the conversation between old materialism (Marxism and class analysis) and new materialism (an interest that the physical life of the world has vital consequences for its human and animal inhabitants). Prerequisites: One other course in queer, feminist or media theory. Letter grade only.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
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