Death, Waste, and Time: Political Traction in the New Global Spaces
SOC 312
Spring 2009
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01
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| This course may be repeated for credit. |
| Course Cluster: Service-Learning |
"All that is solid melts into air." Thus it was in the modern age; thus it remains in the new worlds. The class will explore both classic and subsequent social theories of global capitalism. The organizing question will be: What will become of the social and personal structures that, since the world revolutions of 1968, can be understood as inclined toward the wastage of human life and institutions? Modernity's prevailing assumption that time inclines toward justice, if not progress, will be examined with respect to the prospects of political traction in the new global spaces. The historic ideals of liberal reform and social revolution will be subjected to the evidence that global spaces since 1989 have increasingly drifted apart in economic terms while presenting themselves, in cultural terms, as flowing together. Readings will include: Agamben, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Simmel, Braudel, Canguilheim, Bachelard, Levinas, Derrida, Deleuze, Prigogine, Wallerstein, Dienst, Clough, Virilio, DeLanda, Han, Lemert, Ong, Lowe, Bauman, among others; as well as primary historical and analytic texts on global history since 1867, with emphasis on the late modern period and new millennium. |
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Essential Capabilities:
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS SOC |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
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