Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Affect Theory and Power
Term
2024A
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML5520401
Course number integer
5520
Meeting times
W 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Meeting location
GLAB 102
Level
graduate
Instructors
Donovan O. Schaefer
Description
This seminar will examine contemporary affect theory and its relationship with Michel Foucault's theory of power. We will begin by mapping out Foucault's "analytics of power," from his early work on power knowledge to his late work on embodiment, desire, and the care of the self. We will then turn to affect theory, an approach which centralizes the non-rational, emotive force of power. No previous knowledge of theory is required.
Course number only
5520
Cross listings
GSWS5520401, RELS5520401
Use local description
No