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Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics—Disciplines/Governmentalities/Assemblages
ETHSTD 250 001 | CCN: 24230
Tu 2:00 pm - 4:59 pm 104 Genetics & Plant Bio
4 Units
How do we theorize identity and resistance? No one doubts that race, gender, sexuality, and class will continue to be key touchstones for making sense of both subject-formation and resistance to power. But beyond these well accepted landmarks in theorizing the subject and power, this course examines “post-structural” theorizations of how the political or “responsiblized” subject emerges and takes action. A range of theories will be considered, from Foucault’s thinking on discipline, governmentality, and biopower, to more recent theories of assemblage and actor-network, in which the subject emerges entangled with (and enabled by) “more-than-human” actors. What to such approaches bring to light that was invisible in mainstream social (structural) theory, and what do these newer approaches perhaps risk leaving in the shadows?