Instructor: R. Braidotti
Time: MW 11:00am-12:55pm
MINI-SEMINAR 2/15/16 – 3/9/16
The course focuses on contemporary formations of critical and feminist issues that start from issues of non-unitary subjectivity and open up to questions related to technological mediation, economic globalization, contemporary security concerns and the cognitive character of advanced capitalism. Questions of “nomadic” mobility are more relevant than ever in the context of advanced capitalism. This means that the role of non-human actors is central to the political economy of critical discourses in the global arena. Global mobility, and the re-definition of human/non-human interaction however, does not automatically resolve power differences and other forms of structural inequality and in many ways even intensifies them. The “posthuman” predicament, far from being post-ideological, calls for an urgent redefinition of political and ethical agency. The course aim at raising critical perspectives to come to terms with the complexity of these conceptual and methodological challenges.
