FREN 8230 is also offered in Fall 2024
FREN 8230 is also offered in Spring 2024
FREN 8230 is also offered in Fall 2023
FREN 8230 is also offered in Spring 2023
Spring 2017 | FREN 8230 Section 001: Critical Issues: Criticism and Thought (67782)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3-9 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 112
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Critical issues relating to works in criticism/thought related to French/Francophone literature, philosophy or culture.
- Class Notes:
- Please check out more information on this course! http://classinfo.umn.edu/?lfabbri+FREN8230+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- "Life/Power/Media/Intellectuals: Thinking Neoliberalism through Foucault." The concepts "governance" and "governmentality" have been increasingly deployed in recent years to frame the workings of neoliberalism and, more generally, the forms of rule that do not rely on the spectacle of juridical apparatuses or the capillary control of disciplinary mechanisms. The task of this seminar is to unpack Michel Foucault's contribution to the study of neoliberal governmentality and to explore whether his work provides a key to understanding the state of our current political environment. By paying particular attention to Foucault's mid 1970s courses at the Collège de France, the first half of the seminar will investigate the ways that Foucault's genealogies of the present complicate Althusserian ideology critique: is it an alternative Marxism we are dealing with here or with an alternative to Marxism? In the last part of the seminar we will tackle the following question: Given the functioning of neoliberal governmentality, how can artists and intellectuals contribute to more pluralistic arrangements of the body politic? Primary readings for this course may include: Society Must Be Defended, The Birth of Biopolitics, Security, Territory, Population (Foucault); Intellectuals and Power (Foucault and Deleuze); Capital (Marx); On the Reproduction of Capitalism (Althusser); The Psychic Life of Power (Butler); Necropolitics (Mbembe); The Kingdom and the Glory, The Use of Bodies (Agamben); On the Southern Question (Gramsci); On Populist Reason (Laclau); Can the Subaltern Speak? (Spivak).
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67782/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 16 November 2016
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